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Immigration
09.06.2011
What Does it Mean to Be American?
There’s no question: Americans are committed, at least in theory, to principles of religious freedom, religious tolerance, and separation of church and state.  But putting those ideals into pra…
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Immigration
09.06.2011
Watch the Panel Discussion on PRRI’s New Report at C-SPAN
If you didn’t get a chance to tune in on C-SPAN for this morning’s panel discussion, launching the Public Religion Research Institute’s new survey and report, “What it Means to…
A decade after September 11, 2011, PRRI finds Americans continuing to struggle with how to resolve differences in an increasingly diverse country.
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Politics & Elections
09.01.2011
Ten Years After 9/11, Americans Divided on Approaches to Terrorism
Where were you during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001?  According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, even if you were only eight years old when t…
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Religion & Culture
09.01.2011
American Muslims Are Happy Despite Media Bias
In the wake of a new survey on Muslim-Americans from the Pew Research Center, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the congressman behind last spring’s series of hearings on the alleged radicalization of Ameri…
A PRRI poll finds at least a 20-point gap between millennials and seniors on gay and lesbian-related church policies and public policy.
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Abortion & Reproductive Health
08.09.2011
PRRI in the News: Weekend Recap
Congress may be in recess, but August is shaping up to be a busy month here at PRRI. In an interview on State of Belief, our very own CEO Dr. Robert Jones discussed how the findings of PRRI’s late…
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Politics & Elections
07.29.2011
CNN: “Americans, Their Presidents and Religion”
Yesterday, PRRI’s CEO Dr. Robert P. Jones spoke with CNN Newsroom’s Kyra Phillips about the role of religion in the 2012 election. Dr. Jones highlighted key findings from our recent national surv…
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Politics & Elections
07.25.2011
Only Four-in-Ten Correctly Identify Romney as Mormon
Despite the media attention to G.O.P. candidate Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith, only four in ten Americans correctly identify Romney as Mormon.
Survey Report
Religion & Culture
06.30.2011
Book Chapter | Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics
PRRI CEO Robert P. Jones conducts research among religious factions in the Oregon Assisted Suicide debates as a means to show ethnography as revelation.
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