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From:Sociology of Religion (Vol. 66, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFor a "Christian America": A History of the Religious Right, by RUTH MURRAY BROWN, Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2002, 309pp.; $28.00 USD (cloth). In her book For a "Christian America" Ruth Murray Brown...
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From:Corrections Caselaw Quarterly (Issue 33)U.S. Appeals Court RESTRICTIONS OPPPORTUNITY TO PRACTICE Wares v. Simmons, 392 F.3d 1141 (10th Cir. 2004). A state prisoner brought a [section] 1983 action alleging that denial of access to essential religious...
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From:Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 111, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Christian Right has succeeded in transcending its once declining stature as a social movement characterized by disorganization, decentralization and a weak institutional framework. It has established itself as a...
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From:Corrections Caselaw Quarterly (Issue 33)U.S. Appeals Court LITERATURE PUBLICATIONS Shakur v. Selsky, 391 F.3d 106 (2nd Cir. 2004). A state prisoner brought claims under [section] 1983 against corrections officers and officials alleging various...
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From:PS: Political Science & Politics (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe political alliance between the Republican Party and white Protestant Evangelicals is not without a strong potential for conflict and division. However, both sides managed to compromise on their differences to bring...
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From:Social Forces (Vol. 77, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe ability of conservative Christian political organizations to influence local and national political races seems remarkable - made possible through mass distribution of voter guides, magazines, radio advertisement,...
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From:Sociology of Religion (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedStephen D. Johnson [*] Two samples from the Lynd's "Middletown" were obtained in the Fall of 1997 and of 1998 to assess what factors relate to support for the Promise Keepers. For the samples as a whole, the...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 52, Issue 3)Byline: MICHAEL BERUBE Is it becoming more difficult to speak openly on campus or to share information? I think so, and I fear that untenured and adjunct faculty members are the most vulnerable. In the past two...
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From:Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 54, Issue 4)The COVID-19 pandemic did not eliminate existing social tensions; rather, it at times intensified them. Thus, it is unsurprising that the tension between the liberal state and illiberal religious communities likewise...
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From:Baptist History and Heritage (Vol. 54, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOn May 4, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled "Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty" that directed the Department of Treasury to not "take any adverse action against any individual,...
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From:Corrections Caselaw Quarterly (Issue 33)U.S. District Court RULES Byar v. Lee, 336 F.Supp.2d 896 (W.D.Ark. 2004). A former county jail detainee filed an action against a former county sheriff, alleging violations of her constitutional rights arising out...
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From:Columbia Journalism Review (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe press has consistently failed to report the activities and aspirations of conservative Christians with fairness, accuracy and depth. One reason for this is that these Christians, whom the press refers to pejoratively...
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From:PS: Political Science & Politics (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Christian Right movement remains a strong coalition partner within the Republican Party. However, the movement is currently facing numerous problems, foremost of which is the deep division regarding the propriety of...
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From:Policy Review (Issue 84) Peer-ReviewedThe Religious Right has become politically important, but its main contribution to society will be its effect on American culture. The Right's success on key social issues depends on its ability to become the center on...
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 300)In 1984, Neuhaus published The Naked Public Square. In it, he made the provocative claim that Jerry Falwell followed in the same tradition as Martin Luther King Jr. Both the religious right and the civil rights movement...
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From:Journal of Church and State (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBy Ruth Murray Brown. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002. 309 pp. $28.00. Drawing on primary documents from Christian Right organizations, as well as interviews and surveys from a random sampling of activists in...
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From:Social Forces (Vol. 78, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article investigates why some Americans see public schools as hostile to their moral and spiritual values and whether churchgoing Protestants favor abandoning public schools. Through an analysis of 1996 survey...
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From:Journal of Church and State (Vol. 43, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAmericans have long struggled over the role that religion should play in their systems of public schooling. For more than a century, social tension over issues such as doctrine, science, prayer, and morality has found a...
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From:Sociology of Religion (Vol. 55, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis interpretive essay examines major organizational and tactical changes in the Christian Right, from its origin in the late 1970s to the present. It argues that the Christian Right has passed through several...
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From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWHEN VICENTE FOX OF THE NATIONAL Action Party (PAN) assumed the presidency of Mexico in 2000 after running as "the candidate of change," the country, for the first time since the Revolution of 1910-17, found itself...