Public opinion and polls

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After the reelection of George W.

During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W.

In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the International Declaration of Human Rights, a document designed to hold both individuals and nations accountable for their treatment of fellow human beings, regardless of religious or cultural affiliations.

Debates over the proper relationship between church and state in America tend to focus either on the founding period or the twentieth century.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph Cappella-two of the nation's foremost experts on politics and media-offers a searching analysis of the conservative media establishment, from talk radio to Fox News to the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.

For many Americans, Iran is our most dangerous enemy--part of George W.

How can a just peace be built in sites of genocide, massive civil war, dictatorship, terrorism, and poverty?

The idea that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence is part of the conventional wisdom of Western societies, and it underlies many of our institutions and policies, from limits on the public role of religion to efforts to promote liberal democracy in the Middle East.

Scholars universally acknowledge the role that Christian belief played in the social movement engendered by Martin Luther King Jr.

Listening closely to the religious pitch in Rousseau's voice, Cladis convincingly shows that Rousseau, when attempting to portray the most characteristic aspects of the public and private, reached for a religious vocabulary.

Virtually every trouble spot on the planet has some sort of religious component.

The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs is a passionate yet analytical critique of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural fundamentalists.

What does it mean to be a Christian citizen of the United States today?

Islam's relationship to liberal-democratic politics has emerged as one of the most pressing and contentious issues in international affairs.

"e;Original and wide-ranging, Murphy's discerning and important study is another reminder that America is 'the nation with the soul of a church.

Globalization has spawned more active transnational religious communities, creating a powerful force in world affairs.

This study provides a general overview and a succinct analysis of the primary ways in which the Old Testament has been received, interpreted and conveyed within Eastern Orthodox tradition, filling a vacuum in scholarly literature on the history of biblical interpretation.

Europe's Angry Muslims traces the routes, expectations and destinies of immigrant parents and the plight of their children, transporting both the general reader and specialist from immigrants' ancestral villages to their new enclaves in Europe.

Study of church and state in the United States is incredibly complex.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph Cappella-two of the nation's foremost experts on politics and media-offers a searching analysis of the conservative media establishment, from talk radio to Fox News to the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.

Most observers explain evangelical Christians' bedrock support for Israel as stemming from the apocalyptic belief that the Jews must return to the Holy Land as a precondition for the second coming of Christ.

The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.

Perhaps no other nation is or has ever been as religiously diverse as the United States.

Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures?

For centuries it has been assumed that democracy must refer to the empowerment of the People's voice.

A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition.

Winner of the Frank S.

The 1960 presidential election, won ultimately by John F.

In Wayward Christian Soldiers, leading evangelical theologian Charles Marsh offers a powerful indictment of the political activism of evangelical Christian leaders and churches in the United States.

Evangelicals, once at the periphery of American life, now wield power in the White House and on Wall Street, at Harvard and in Hollywood.

The Falungong movement originated in 1992 as a system of breathing exercises designed to promote health and well-being.

Iran is a key player in some of the most crucial issues of our time.

A primer on the current "e;Niebuhr revival"e; of the political left and right, this book traces the significance of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought for secular as well as deeply Christian minds.

"e;Waging a counterinsurgency war and justified by claims of 'an agreement between Guatemala and God,' Guatemala's Evangelical Protestant military dictator General Rios Montt incited a Mayan holocaust: over just 17 months, some 86,000 mostly Mayan civilians were murdered.

The essays in this volume offer a groundbreaking comparative analysis of religious education, and state policies towards religious education in seven different countries and in the European Union as a whole.

White evangelicals occupy strange property on the ideological map in America, exhibiting a pronounced commitment to the principle of limited government, and yet making a significant exception for issues relating to personal morality - an exception many observers take to be paradoxical at best.

Whether the issue is the rise of religiously inspired terrorism, the importance of faith based NGOs in global relief and development, or campaigning for evangelical voters in the U.

Chinese traditional culture cannot be understood without some familiarity with the I Ching, yet it is one of the most difficult of the world's ancient classics.

Surveys over the last twenty years have seen an ever-growing number of Americans disclaim religious affiliations and instead check the "e;none"e; box.

Surveys over the last twenty years have seen an ever-growing number of Americans disclaim religious affiliations and instead check the "e;none"e; box.

In his highly praised book Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith cast a revealing light on the role religion has played in presidential politics throughout our nation's history, offering comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in the lives, politics, and policies of eleven presidents.

In his highly praised book Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith cast a revealing light on the role religion has played in presidential politics throughout our nation's history, offering comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in the lives, politics, and policies of eleven presidents.

On April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law.

On April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law.

"e;Fundamentalism"e; and "e;authoritarian secularism"e; are commonly perceived as the two mutually exclusive paradigms available to Muslim majority countries.

On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts.

On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts.

For the last several decades, at the far fringes of American evangelical Christianity has stood an intellectual movement known as Christian Reconstruction.

Frequently in partnership, but sometimes at odds, religious institutions and public health institutions work to improve the well-being of their communities.