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Piety and Public Funding: Evangelicals and the State in Modern America
9780812206593, 0812206592

Despite the separation of church and state, public aid to religious agencies has traditionally been part of liberal soci

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Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, "An Enchanted Modern" demonstra

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Neoconservative proposals for a minimal state notwithstanding, it has become increasingly clear in Latin America (and el

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On August 2, 2007, Congress passed the America COMPETES Act (H.R. 2272), which the President signed into law (P.L. 110-6

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Historian Mark Noll traces evangelicalism from its nineteenth-century roots. He applies lessons learned in the milieu of

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In Evangelism and Apostasy, the first sociological survey of Evangelicals in present-day Mexico, Kurt Bowen evaluates th

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'Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools' argues that the thinking behind efforts to reform American school

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Ronit Stahl traces the ways the U.S. military struggled with, encouraged, and regulated religious pluralism and scramble

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A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world’s most generous system of veterans’ benefits and s

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The Arab Spring, chat forums, political leaders tweeting, online petitions, and protestors in the Occupy Movement - new

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