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Religion and politics The Center for Religion and Civic Culture 
 This research unit of the University of Southern California (USC) College of Letters, Arts and Sciences "promotes discipline-based, transdisciplinary, and interdisciplinary research related to the involvement of religion and religious institutions in civic culture." The website features publications, exhibitions, and resources for and about religious organizations and community leaders. Searchable. http://crcc.usc.edu/index.html Topics: Social Issues Last updated Nov 1, 2009 Christian Coalition of America
Site of the political organization, founded by Christian televangelist Pat Robertson, whose mission is to "represent the pro-family point of view before local councils, school boards, state legislatures and Congress." The site highlights the coalition's political agenda and voter education efforts. http://www.cc.org/ Topics: Christianity, Political Parties & Theories, Politics by Place, Social Issues Last updated Aug 19, 2005 Faith-Based Initiatives and the Bush Administration
Background information, publications, and excerpts from and links to news items about President Bush's White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and related programs. Includes policy papers on faith-based funding and transcripts from presentations. From the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. http://pewforum.org/faith-based-initiatives/ Topics: Charity & Nonprofit Resources, Social Issues Last updated Oct 19, 2004 The Martin Marty Center: Sightings
This online publication "reports and comments on the role of religion in public life via e-mail twice a week." The site features archives of articles back to 1999 on topics such as "Pro-Life Progressivism," chaplains in the war zone, yoga and fundamentalist Christianity, "Black Theology and Womanist Theology in Conversation," and more. From the Martin Marty Center, the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago. http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/publications/sightings/ Topics: Philosophy, Religion Last updated Oct 21, 2009 Religion and Politics: A Tale of Two Churches
Companion to a National Public Radio (NPR) Morning Edition series "on the role of religion in the 2004 campaign." Features comments from congregants at two churches in Pennsylvania and programs on the faiths of President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry. Includes links to many related NPR programs on religion and politics, faith-based initiatives, and the 2004 presidential election. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4057906 Topics: 2004 Presidential Election, Presidents by Name, Social Issues Last updated Oct 19, 2004 |
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