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To Serve God and Mammon: Church-State Relations in American Politics
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The Religion Clauses: Competing religious values The Uses of History Debating the Public Role of Religion: The Protagonists From Christian America to Free Exercise: The Changing Nature of the Church-State Debate The Future of theChurchState Debate Appendix: Selected Supreme Court Decisions Glossary References Index as discussed by the authorsAbstract:
The Religion Clauses: Competing Religious Values The Uses of History Debating the Public Role of Religion: The Protagonists From Christian America to Free Exercise: The Changing Nature of the Church-State Debate The Future of the Church-State Debate Appendix: Selected Supreme Court Decisions Glossary References Indexread more
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Causes and Consequences of Public Attitudes toward Abortion: A Review and Research Agenda
Ted G. Jelen,Clyde Wilcox +1 more
TL;DR: This paper provided a critical review of empirical research on attitudes toward abortion among mass publics in the United States, with a view toward suggesting promising avenues for future research, and identified three such themes: accounting for pro-life movement among mass attitudes in recent years, when the composition of the U.S. population would seem to trend in a pro-choice direction; explaining the sources of party polarization of the abortion issue; and anticipating changes in abortion attitudes which might result from public debate over human cloning.
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The Political Authority of Secularism in International Relations
TL;DR: The creation of the category of religion and its demarcation from politics is a highly politicized decision that is not subject to a final settlement as discussed by the authors, which exacerbates international conflict rather than diminishing it.
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The Myth of Pluralism, Diversity, and Vigor: The Constitutional Privilege of Protestantism in the United States and Canada
TL;DR: Al and Sue Jamison as mentioned in this paper had recently moved to a new metropolitan area and were interested in how they found a place of worship, with over 3,000 options possible in their new location.
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The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars
TL;DR: The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics as mentioned in this paper documents a recent fundamental change in American politics with the waning of Christian America, focusing primarily on evangelical politics, using extensive historical and survey data that compares evangelical advocacy and evangelical public opinion.
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Ulster Says Maybe: The Restructuring of Evangelical Politics in Northern Ireland
TL;DR: The recent electoral triumph of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has stimulated debate about the role of fundamentalist or traditional evangelical Protestantism within the party and in Northern Irish politics as mentioned in this paper.
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The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
TL;DR: Zaller as discussed by the authors developed a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences, and applied this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and presidential approval, as well as voting behaviour in U.S. House, Senate and presidential elections.
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Religion and politics in the United States
TL;DR: The case against religious influence in American political life is discussed in this paper, where the authors argue that there is evidence that religious influence has a profound effect on public policy, and the case for religion in politics is discussed.
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Onward Christian Soldiers: The Religious Right in American Politics
Anna Greenberg,Clyde Wilcox +1 more
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Onward Christian Soldiers: The Religious Right in American Politics
Clyde Wilcox,Carin Robinson +1 more
TL;DR: The Christian Right in Context Revivals and Revolution: The Christian right in Twentieth-Century America The Christian Right In American Politics Assessing the Christian Right The Future of the Christian right as discussed by the authors.