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Economy
10.17.2011
Religion, Economic Inequality, and Occupy Wall Street
With no sign of the Occupy Wall Street movement losing steam, many have been exploring the role of faith in motivating the protesters’ to take to the streets, as well as the perspective of the relig…
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Politics & Elections
10.12.2011
Americans Crave Civility in Political Discourse, But Will They Get It?
Although we should perhaps count ourselves fortunate that violence no longer breaks out on the Senate floor (a la the infamous Sumner-Brooks caning incident of 1856), a recent editorial for the Christ…
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LGBTQ
10.12.2011
Presbyterian Church Ordains First Openly Gay Pastor
The newly re-ordained Rev. Scott Anderson of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) resigned as pastor of his California church in 1990 after telling his congregants that he was gay.  More than 20 years la…
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Politics & Elections
10.11.2011
Mormons and White Evangelicals Might Not Be So Different After All
Take a look at our new research note, documenting the political parallels between Mormons and white evangelical Protestants.  The findings may be surprising, given recent speculation about whether wh…
As Dr. Robert P. Jones predicted in last week’s “Figuring Faith,” this weekend’s annual Values Voter Summit was a testing ground for Mitt Romney, the GOP front-runner and a devout Mormon.  Wh…
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Politics & Elections
10.11.2011
Political Parallels Between Mormons & White Evangelicals
Despite the current debate over whether white evangelicals will support a Mormon candidate for President, according to research from PRRI, these two groups share similar political values and beliefs.
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Economy
10.07.2011
Religion and the Occupy Wall Street Movement
  The Occupy Wall Street movement has been slowly creeping into the news cycle since it began in New York City in mid-September. As the protests begin to gather steam and spread to other cities,…
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Politics & Elections
10.06.2011
New Factsheet on the Alignment of Evangelical and Tea Party Values
Many of the GOP primary candidates will be in DC this weekend, but not for a debate (I hear your sigh of relief.  There have been a lot of those recently).  They’re all speaking at the annual…
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Climate Change & Science
10.06.2011
Millennials Leave Their Churches Over Science, Lesbian & Gay Issues
Churches are worried, and with good reason.  A new study from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research released last week reported that over the past decade, America’s congregations have lost m…
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Climate Change & Science
10.05.2011
Tea Party Diverges from Republicans on Some Environmental Issues, Says Yale Survey
Following on the heels of the latest PRRI/RNS Religion News Survey, which tackled the thorny issues of climate change and evolution in the 2012 elections, Yale University’s Project on Climate Change…
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