Statistical Abstract of the United States
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 1020
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The Politics of Sin
Author: Kenneth J. Meier
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1994-02-17
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780765638625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work demonstrates the value of a multi-method approach to public policy analysis, arguing that descriptive historical studies, quantitative historical studies and cross-sectional quantitative studies are essentially compatible.
Religion and the Demographic Revolution
Author: Callum G. Brown
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1843837927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1960s Christian religious practice and identity declined rapidly and women's lives were transformed, spawning a demographic revolution in sex, family and work. The argument of this book is that the two were intimately connected, triggered by an historic confluence of factors.
America Right or Wrong : An Anatomy of American Nationalism
Author: Anatol Lieven Senior Associate for Foreign and Security Policy Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004-10-15
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780198037675
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"America keeps a fine house," Anatol Lieven writes, "but in its cellar there lives a demon, whose name is nationalism." In this controversial critique of America's role in the world, Lieven contends that U.S. foreign policy since 9/11 has been shaped by the special character of our national identity, which embraces two contradictory features. One, "The American Creed," is a civic nationalism which espouses liberty, democracy, and the rule of law. It is our greatest legacy to the world. But our almost religious belief in the "Creed" creates a tendency toward a dangerously "messianic" element in American nationalism, the desire to extend American values and American democracy to the whole world, irrespective of the needs and desires of others. The other feature, populist (or what is sometimes called "Jacksonian") nationalism, has its roots in an aggrieved, embittered, and defensive White America, centered largely in the American South. Where the "Creed" is optimistic and triumphalist, Jacksonian nationalism is fed by a profound pessimism and a sense of personal, social, religious, and sectional defeat. Lieven examines how these two antithetical impulses have played out in recent US policy, especially in the Middle East and in the nature of U.S. support for Israel. He suggests that in this region, the uneasy combination of policies based on two contradictory traditions have gravely undermined U.S. credibility and complicated the war against terrorism. It has never been more vital that Americans understand our national character. This hard-hitting critique directs a spotlight on the American political soul and on the curious mixture of chauvinism and idealism that has driven the Bush administration.
State and Metropolitan Area Data Book
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 444
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK1979-2010: Contains data similar to that found in the County and City Databook, but on the state and MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Areas) levels.
Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States 2000
Author: Dale E. Jones
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 596
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Mainline Religion
Author: Wade Clark Roof
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780813512167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWade Clark Roof and William McKinney argue that a new voluntarism is slowly eroding the old social and economic boundaries that once defined and separated religious groups and is opening new cleavages along moral and life-style lines. Nowhere has the impact of these changes been more profoundly felt than by the often-overlooked religious communities of the American center, or mainline--Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish. "American Mainline Religion" provides a new "mapping" of the families of American religion and the underlying social, cultural, and demographic forces that will reshape American religion in the century to come. Going beyond the headlines in daily newspapers, Roof and McKinney document the decline of the Protestant establishment, the rise of a more assimilated and public-minded Roman Catholicism, the place of black Protestantism and Judaism, and the resurgence of conservative Protestantism as a religious and cultural force.
Atlas of American Religion
Author: William M. Newman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780742503458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom independence to the present, the Atlas charts the evolution of the 39 major religious denominations and sects in the U.S. -- from Methodists to Congregationalists, Mormons to Jews, Church of God to the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
Review of Religious Research
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rational Southerner
Author: M. V. Hood III
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-05-05
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0199873836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1950, the South has undergone the most dramatic political transformation of any region in the United States. The once Solid-meaning Democratic-South is now overwhelmingly Republican, and long-disenfranchised African Americans vote at levels comparable to those of whites. In The Rational Southerner, M.V. Hood III, Quentin Kidd, and Irwin L. Morris argue that local strategic dynamics played a decisive and underappreciated role in both the development of the Southern Republican Party and the mobilization of the region's black electorate. Mobilized blacks who supported the Democratic Party made it increasingly difficult for conservative whites to maintain control of the Party's machinery. Also, as local Republican Party organizations became politically viable, the strategic opportunities that such a change provided made the GOP an increasingly attractive alternative for white conservatives. Blacks also found new opportunities within the Democratic Party as whites fled to the GOP, especially in the deep South, where large black populations had the potential to dominate state and local Democratic Parties. As a result, Republican Party viability also led to black mobilization. Using the theory of relative advantage, Hood, Kidd, and Morris provide a new perspective on party system transformation. Following a theoretically-informed description of recent partisan dynamics in the South, they demonstrate, with decades of state-level, sub-state, and individual-level data, that GOP organizational strength and black electoral mobilization were the primary determinants of political change in the region. The authors' finding that race was, and still is, the primary driver behind political change in the region stands in stark contrast to recent scholarship which points to in-migration, economic growth, or religious factors as the locus of transition. The Rational Southerner contributes not only to the study of Southern politics, but to our understanding of party system change, racial politics, and the role that state and local political dynamics play in the larger context of national politics and policymaking.
