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| Preface | |
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| Religion in the United States: Historical Legacies | |
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| Our Mainstream Religious Heritage: Colonial Era to the American Revolution | |
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| TIntroduction | |
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| Integrative Essay | |
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| John Witte, Jr. A Four-Cornered Canopy | |
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| Research Pieces | |
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| David L. Holmes. 2006. the Faiths of the Founding Fathers | |
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| Andrew R. Murphy. 1997. the Uneasy Relationship Between Social Contract Theory and Religious Toleration | |
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| Primary Sources | |
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| John Calvin. 1559. "Institutes of the Christian Religion: Book IV: Chapter 20." | |
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| William Brewster. 1620. "The Mayflower Compact." | |
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| John Winthrop. 1630. "A Model of Christian Charity." | |
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| "Massachusetts Body of Liberties." 1641 | |
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| Roger Williams. July 15, 1644. "The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution." | |
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| "The Cambridge Platform." 1648 | |
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| William Penn. 1670. "The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience." | |
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| John Locke. 1689. "Letter Concerning Toleration." | |
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| Forging a New Nation | |
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| TIntroduction | |
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| Integrative Essay | |
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| Daniel Dreisbach. Religion and the Civil State in the American Founding | |
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| Primary Sources | |
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| John Adams. 1765. "A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law." | |
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| James Madison. 1784. "Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments." | |
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| Thomas Jefferson. 1786. "Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty." | |
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| Library of Congress. 1789. "House and Senate Debates" excerpts | |
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| President George Washington. 1789. "Thanksgiving Proclamation." | |
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| President George Washington. 1796. "Farewell Address." | |
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| Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins and Stephen S. Nelson. October 7, 1801. "Address of the Danbury Baptists Association." | |
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| President Thomas Jefferson. January 1, 1802. "Letter to the Danbury Baptists Association." | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville. 1833. Democracy in America | |
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| Religion and American Political Life | |
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| Religion and American Civic Life | |
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| TIntroduction | |
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| Research Pieces | |
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| Robert N. Bellah. 1967. Civil Religion in America | |
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| Grace Y. Kao and Jerome E. Copulsky. 2007. the Pledge of Allegiance and the Meanings and Limits of Civil Religion | |
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| Michael F. Bailey and Kristin Lindholm. 2003. Tocqueville and the Rhetoric of Civil Religion in the Presidential Inaugural Addresses | |
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| Robert D. Putnam. 2000. Bowling Alone: the Collapse and Revival of American Community | |
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| Primary Sources | |
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| Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 1762. Book IV, Chapter VIII: Civil Religion. the Social Contract | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville. 1833. Chapters 2 and 5. Democracy in America | |
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| President Abraham Lincoln. March 4, 1865. "Second Inaugural Address." | |
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| General Dwight D. Eisenhower. June 6, 1944. "D-Day Prayer." | |
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| President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. June 6, 1944. "D-Day Prayer." | |
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| President John F. Kennedy. January 20, 1961. "Inaugural Address." | |
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| President Bill Clinton. April 23, 1995. "Oklahoma City Speech." | |
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| President George W. Bush. September 14, 2001. "Remarks at the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance." | |
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| The American Religious Landscape | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Integrative Essay | |
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| Corwin Smidt. Making Sense of the American Religious Landscape | |
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| Research Pieces | |
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| Will Herberg. 1960. Protestant���Catholic���Jew | |
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| Mark Silk. 2005. Religion and Region in American Public Life | |
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| Walter Sundberg. 2000. Religious Trends in Twentieth-Century America | |
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| Mark Chaves. 2004. Congregations in America | |
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| Lyman Kellstedt, John Green, Corwin Smidt, and James Guth. 2007. Faith Transformed: Religion and American Politics from FDR George W Bush | |
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| Fredrick C. Harris. 1999. Something Within: Religion in African-American Political Activism | |
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| Nathan J. Kelly and Jana Morgan Kelly. 2005. Religion and Latino Partisanship in the United States | |
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| Amaney Jamal. 2005. the Political Participation and Engagement of Muslim Americans: Mosque Involvement and Group Consciousness | |
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| Religion and Social Movements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Research Pieces | |
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| Christian Smith. 1996. Disruptive Religion: the Force of Faith in Social Movement Activism | |
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| Aldon Morris. 1984. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change | |
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| David Chappell. 2004. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow | |
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| Primary Sources | |
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| William Lloyd Garrison. December 14, 1833. "Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention." | |
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| Angelina E. Grimke. 1836. "Appeal to the Christian Women of the South." | |
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| Sojourner Truth. December 1851. "Ain't I A Woman?" | |
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| Frances Willard. 1876. "Home Protection I." | |
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| "Statement by Alabama Clergymen." April 12, 1963 | |
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| Martin Luther King Jr. April 16, 1963. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." | |
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| Malcolm X. April 3, 1964. "The Ballot or the Bullet." | |
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| Religious Groups in the Political Process | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Integrative Essay | |
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| Kimberly H. Conger. Religious Interest Groups and the American Political Process | |
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| Research Pieces | |
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| Allen Hertzke. 1988. Representing God in Washington: the Role of Religious | |
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| Lobbies in the American Polity | |
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| Kevin R. den Dulk. 2006. In Legal Culture but Not of It: the Role of Cause | |
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| Lawyers in Evangelical Legal Mobilization | |
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| Edward L. Cleary. 2003. Religion at the Statehouse: the California Catholic | |
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| Conference | |
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| Primary Sources | |
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| 2008 Christian Coalition Voter Guide. 2008 | |
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| Muslim Public Affairs Council. Activate 08 Voter Guide: 2008 Election: A Look at the Candidates & the Issues. 2008 | |
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| Catholic Answers Action. Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics. 2006 | |
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| Brief of Amicus Curiae American Center for Law and Justice in Support of Respondents, Van Orden v. Perry | |
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| Brief for the Hindu American Foundation and Others, Representing the Interests of Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains, as Amici Curiae in Support of Reversal, Van Orden v. Perry | |
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| Religion and Governing Institutions | |
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| Religion and the Presidency | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Integrative Essay | |
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| Mark J. Rozell and Harold S. Bass. Religion and the U.S. Presidency | |
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| Research Pieces | |
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| Gary Scott Smith. 2006. Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush | |
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| Charles W. Dunn. 1984. the Theological Dimensions of Presidential Leadership: A Classification Model | |
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| President Abraham Lincoln. September 1862. "Meditation on the Divine Will." | |
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| President John F. Kennedy. September 12, 1960. "Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association." | |
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| President Jimmy Carter. January 20, 1977. "Inaugural Address." | |
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| Ronald Reagan. July 17, 1980. "Nomination Acceptance Address." | |
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| President George W. Bush. January 20, 2001. "Inaugural Address." | |
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| President Barack Obama. June 4, 2009. "A New Beginning," Cairo, Egypt | |
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| Religion and Congress | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Research Pieces | |
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| Peter Benson and Dorothy Williams. 1982. Religion on Capitol Hill: Myths and Realities | |
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| John C. Green and James L. Guth. 1991. Religion, Representatives, and Roll Calls | |
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| Elizabeth Anne Oldmixon. 2005. Uncompromising Positions: God, Sex, and the U.S. House of Representatives | |
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| Michelle Gabriel. 2003. Prayer Groups Proliferate on Capitol Hill | |
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| Representative David Price. 2004. the Congressional Experience | |
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| Primary Sources | |
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| Senator Joseph Lieberman. Feb. 1, 2001. "Statement of Senator Joe Lieberman on the Nomination of John Ashcroft for Attorney General." | |
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| Representative Mark Souder. 2004. "A Conservative Christian's View on Public Life." | |
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| Representative Nancy Pelosi. June 16, 2005. "Nancy Pelosi Delivers Speech at National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast." | |
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| Senator Barack Obama. June 28, 2006. "'Call to Renewal' Keynote Address." | |
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| Senator John Danforth. June 17, 2007. "Onward, Moderate Christian Soldiers." | |
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| Religion and the Supreme Court | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Integrative Essay | |
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| Paul Wahlbeck. Judicial Decision Making and Religion Cases | |
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| Research Pieces | |
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| Thomas E. Buckley. 2004. "A Mandate for Anti-Catholicism: the Blaine Amendment." | |
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| Jeffrey Toobin. 2007. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court | |
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| Peter Irons. 2006. People's History of the Supreme Court: the Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions have Shaped our Constitution | |
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| David O'Brien. 2008. Storm Center: the Supreme Court in American Politics | |
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| Primary Documents | |
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| Free Exercise Cases | |
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| Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 (1940) | |
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| Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398 (1963) | |
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| Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990) | |
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| Establishment Cases | |
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| Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971) | |
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| Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 536 U.S. 639 (2002) | |
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| Locke v. Davey, 540 U.S. 712 (2004) | |
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| Religion in American Public Policy | |
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| Domestic Policy Debates | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Integrative Essay | |
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| Katherine E. Knutson. Religion and Public Policy | |
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| Research Pieces | |
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| Hugh Heclo. 2001. Religion and Public Policy: An Introduction. Journal of Policy History 13(1): 1-18 | |
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| Douglas Koopman. 2009. "Religion and American Public Policy: Morality Politics and Beyond." | |
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| Primary Sources | |
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| The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. March 5-7 1946. "The Church and Race Relations," | |
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| "Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern." November 25, 1973 | |
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| United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. 1986. "Economic Justice for All: Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy." | |
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| Evangelical Manifesto Steering Committee. May 7, 2008. "An Evangelical Manifesto: A Declaration of Evangelical Identity and Public Commitment." | |
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| Domestic Policy Case Study: Environmental Issues | |
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| International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee. March 23-26, 1998. "A Common Declaration on the Environment." | |
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| National Council of Churches USA. 2006. "Resolution on Global Warming." | |
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| Evangelical Climate Initiative. January, 2006. "Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action." | |
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| Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. June 11, 2007. "An Open Letter to the Signers of 'Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action' and Others Concerned About Global Warming." | |
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| Foreign Policy Debates | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Research Pieces | |
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| Samuel Huntington. 1996. the Clash of Civilizations | |
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| Madeline Albright. 2006. the Mighty and the Almighty | |
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| Walter Russell Mead. September/October 2006. "God's Country?" | |
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| Primary Sources | |
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| St. Thomas Aquinas. the Summa Theologica. Part II, Question 40 | |
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| The Schleitheim Confession of Faith: Brotherly Union of a Number | |
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| Of Children of God Concerning Seven Articles. February 24, 1527 | |
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| Mennonite Central Committee. February 1993/Conviction 4 Revised June 1994 | |
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| A Commitment to Christ's Way of Peace | |
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| U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, November 13, 2002. Statement on Iraq | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |