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Why Religion May Not Matter Much in 2008

This presidential election cycle is supposed to be all about religion, right? The pundit mop-up of George Bush’s 2004 victory was all about “values voters,” and while the “God gap” apparently narrowed in the 2006 mid-term elections, we’ve still had any number of articles about how the Democrats are getting religion. (We are awaiting a [...]

25Sep2007 | Andrea Useem | 5 comments | Continued
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Religion and the Presidential Candidates: Fun Facts

 

 
Question: What does the current field of presidential contenders have in common with the Supreme Court bench? Answer: It is disproportionately Catholic.
Using the handily compiled religious biographies of the presidential candidates (which number 16, if undeclared Fred Thompson is included) from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, ReligionWriter discovered these interesting tidbits.
Six out [...]

15Aug2007 | Andrea Useem | 1 comment | Continued
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Women’s Issues Make Zaid Shakir Look Away

When interviewed tonight on Bill Moyers’ Journal, Imam Zaid Shakir appeared relaxed, looking straight at Mr. Moyers with his light brown eyes. But when the subject turned to the question of the divine mandate for wife-beating, Imam Shakir appeared flustered.
Moyers read to Shakir a translation of the Koranic verse 4:34, which, in the Yusuf Ali [...]

22Jun2007 | Andrea Useem | 1 comment | Continued
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Fred Thompson’s Faith: Churches of Christ 101

When James Dobson told U.S. News & World Reports’ Dan Gilgoff he didn’t think GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson was “Christian,” that sparked a have-you-seen-Fred-Thompson-at-church contest and other blogosphere debates over Thompson’s religious beliefs. Though the former Tennessee senator was baptized in the
Church of
Christ, he married his second wife, Jeri Kehn, at a United Church [...]

14Jun2007 | Andrea Useem | 10 comments | Continued
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