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    A Monumental Decision: High Court Considers Constitutionality of Ten Commandments Displays on Public Property

    2:00-3:30pm National Press Club Washington, D.C. Download legal backgrounder on Ten Commandments cases (154K .pdf) On March 2, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases that concern the placement of Ten Commandments displays on public property. The commandments controversy came to national prominence in 2003, when the chief justice of the Alabama […]

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    Religion and the 2004 Election: A Post-Election Analysis

    The close 2004 presidential election produced increased polarization between and within religious communities, according to a new poll conducted by The University of Akron’s Bliss Institute of Applied Politics. The Fourth National Survey of Religion and Politics, sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, was conducted in November and December 2004. Titled […]

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    Religion & Public Life: A Faith-Based Partisan Divide

    The Pew Forum’s chapter from the new Pew Research Center publication, Trends 2005 Learn more about the publication, Trends 2005 <!–Read more about Religion in Politics–> Introduction The United States has a long tradition of separating church from state, but an equally powerful inclination to mix religion with politics. Throughout our nation’s history, great political […]

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    Trends 2005: A look at changes in American life

    A new survey of the core values of the American public has found that beliefs about national security are now twice as important as economic, social or religious values in shaping people’s partisan identification. Five year ago, these national security attitudes barely registered as a correlate of partisanship. The findings, which are presented in a […]

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    Does “Muslim” Turkey Belong in “Christian” Europe?

    9:30am-11am National Press Club Washington, D.C. Speakers: Jonathan Davidson, Senior Advisor for Political and Academic Affairs, European Commission Delegation to the U.S. Corrado Pirzio-Biroli, Head of the Cabinet of former EU Commissioner Franz Fischler Omer Taspinar, Director, Turkey Program, The Brookings Institution Moderator: Luis Lugo, Director, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life LUIS LUGO: […]

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    Politics and Values in a 51%-48% Nation

    Summary of Findings This report is an excerpt from chapter one of the book Trends 2005, produced by the Pew Research Center. Public attitudes on national security are now much more strongly associated with partisan affiliation than they were in the late 1990s. A comprehensive study of long-term public values finds that beliefs about national […]