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    The Culture War and the Coming Election

    April 11, 2007 by David Masci, Senior Research Fellow, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life The 2008 presidential election is still more than a year-and-a-half away, but some issues, such as the war in Iraq and health care, have already begun to define the contest. Others will emerge in the months ahead to catch […]

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    A Six-Day War: Its Aftermath in American Public Opinion

    by Robert Ruby, Senior Editor, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life It was famously a six-day war, and in varying guises the conflict has so far lasted another 40 years. For six days, beginning June 5, 1967, Israel battled Egypt, Jordan and Syria. As a result of the fighting, Israel won control of the […]

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    Methodology

    This analysis is based primarily upon the merging of data from two surveys—the 2006 National Survey of Latinos (NSL), and the 2006 Hispanic Religion Survey—both of which were conducted by International Communications Research (ICR) on behalf of Pew Research Center projects during the same time period, using analogous methodologies.  The NSL was conducted from June […]

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    Religious Activities and the Principle of Equal Access

    Over the past 20 years, evangelical Christians and others have advanced the rights of religious organizations to have equal access to meeting space and other forms of recognition provided by public schools to students.These organizations have consistently succeeded in securing the same privileges provided by public schools to secular groups. Their victories have not been […]

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    States Suspending Executions

    That’s the number of states that have suspended executions because of questions over lethal injection, the primary method of execution in 37 of the 38 states that have retained the death penalty — only Nebraska still uses the electric chair.