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The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life hosted three press conference calls for journalists starting at midnight on election night and continuing through Wednesday, Nov. 5. Pew Forum experts analyzed religion’s role in the election, examined how the religious public voted and more. Senior Fellow John Green answered questions from members of the media […]
Religious Profile Margin of error: ± 7.5% Sample size: 228 Data from the Pew Forum’s U.S. Religious Landscape Survey. 2008 New Mexico Primary Exit Poll Results Primary dates: Democrats – Feb. 5, 2008 Republicans – June 3, 2008 No polling information was collected for the Republican primary. Source: 2008 National Election Pool Exit Poll as reported […]
Religious Profile Margin of error: ± 6.5% Sample size: 320 Data from the Pew Forum’s U.S. Religious Landscape Survey. 2008 New Hampshire Primary Exit Poll Results Primary date: Jan. 8, 2008 Source: 2008 National Election Pool Exit Poll as reported by MSNBC 2004 New Hampshire General Election Results Data on “All Voters”: CNN All other data: Pew […]
Religious Profile Margin of error: ± 3.5% Sample size: 1,166 Data from the Pew Forum’s U.S. Religious Landscape Survey. 2008 North Carolina Primary Exit Poll Results No polling information was collected for the Republican primary. Source: 2008 National Election Pool Exit Poll as reported by MSNBC 2004 North Carolina General Election Results No worship attendance polling information […]
Join the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life on election night 2008 and the following day for analysis of religion’s role in the election, a preliminary breakdown of how the religious public voted and more. The Pew Forum will host three press conference calls for journalists starting at midnight on election night and continuing […]
by Richard Wike, Associate Director, Pew Global Attitudes Project In the Middle East and elsewhere, Muslim reaction to the Israeli offensive in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip has been swift and angry, with protests in Amman, Beirut, Istanbul, Tehran, Jakarta, and several other capitals. Palestinians in East Jerusalem and in the West Bank, where Hamas rival […]
Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December, 2008, for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Vali Nasr, author of the 2006 book, The Shia Revival, surveyed the geo-political landscape of today’s Middle East, arguing that the 2003 invasion of Iraq has fundamentally […]
Although the most constitutionally acceptable accommodations apply equally to religious and secular organizations, the government at times has found reason to extend an exemption solely to religious believers or organizations. These religion-specific exemptions are often a response to an earlier law that significantly burdened religious practice or belief. For example, a law prohibiting all alcohol […]
The accommodation of religion raises some of the most difficult questions in church-state relations because it involves so many different and complicated areas of constitutional law. Most fundamentally, in seeking to promote religious liberty, such accommodations often appear to favor religion over nonreligion and thus seem to violate the Establishment Clause. Balancing these two competing […]