The article examines the political influence of the religious right in the United States. The author claims that conservative religious leaders and their churches have less impact on the American political landscape than they once did. Barack Obama, the 2008 Democratic Party candidate for president, ...
Should religious people who conscientiously object to facilitating same-sex weddings, and who therefore decline to provide cakes, photography, or other services, be exempted from antidiscrimination laws? This issue has taken on an importance far beyond the tiny number who have made such claims. Gay...
Summary and Sythesis: The Crisis in Religious Liberty Once thought to be indispensible to a good life, the value of friendship has been swept away by the most recent trends in philosophical, literary, and legal thought. After tracing the subtle decline in the value of friendship, this Artic....
Demographic historians have long suspected that cultural factors played an important role in the early decline of fertility in nineteenth-century America. Using the recently released 1850 and 1880 IPUMS samples, this article investigates... JD Hacker - 《History of the Family》 被引量: 54发表: 19...
The falling leaf is an ancient trope for decline and fall, and we mortals tend to take it personally. “I have lived long enough,” lamented Shakespeare’s Macbeth: … my way of life Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf;
While America has suffered a significant decline in righteousness, a recent study by the Becket religious liberty law firm finds increased support for religious freedom.
The Union of Reform Judaism, which Rabbi Siegel’s climate activist group pushed to divest from fossil fuel companies, will surely see a decline in their membership if it continues to focus on a host of controversial issues in the news. ...
World's Christian Population in Decline; Islamic Population Growing The precise reason for this may not be known. I think it has to do with the emphasis Western Europe and the United States has placed upon "Family Planning," "Birth Control" and the availability of abortion... Losing...
The late James Coleman's concept of social capital has been misused in the current debate about the alleged decline of civic and ethical concern in America. Social capital, as Coleman defined it, is a potentiality that inheres m social structures and is not a dependent variable. It is a ...
RRR provides a forum for research across multiple disciplines and approaches, including research on the following topical areas: Clergy; Church programs; Comparative analyses of religious denominations and institutions; Denominational and congregational growth, decline, and vitality; Denominational and ...