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American Grace is based on two of the most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on religion and public life in America. It includes a dozen in-depth profiles of diverse congregations across the country, which illuminate how the trends described by Putnam and Campbell affect the lives of real Americans.
Dec 16, 2010 · American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life held a press luncheon with political science professors David Campbell and John Green on the topic of how religion both divides and unites Americans.
Feb 21, 2012 · Based on two of the most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on religion and public life in America (and with a new epilogue based on a third survey), American Grace is an indispensable book about American religious life, essential for understanding our nation today.
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- Robert D. Putnam, David E. Campbell, Shaylyn Romney Garrett
- $22
- Simon & Schuster
Sep 15, 2011 · American Grace recounts how the shockwave of the 1960s brought a huge shift in religious attitudes. While a whole section of the population abandoned 1950s conservatism and embraced the trappings of 60s libertarianism, the resulting backlash found a home in conservative evangelical Protestantism.
“American Grace offers a cogent and insightful analysis of the role of religion in American public life. Covering a wide range of topics, from religious pluralism to political polarization, it describes both the perils—and promise—of contemporary faith-based politics.
Feb 21, 2012 · American Grace is “perhaps the most sweeping look yet at contemporary American religion. It lays out the broad trends of the past fifty years, assesses their sociological causes, and...
They present the now-standard narrative of postwar American religion—that the social and cultural changes of the 1960s, and reactions to them, led to a split in American religious and political life. Religious conservatives and liberals have polarized, even within denominational groups.
