![]() Campbell All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Copyright © 2010 by Robert D. ![]() Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life A Matter of Faith: Religion in the 2004 Presidential Election (editor) Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education (editor, with Paul E. The Comparative Study of Political Elites The Beliefs of Politicians: Ideology, Conflict, and Democracy in Britain and Italy Jacobson) Hanging Together: Conflict and Cooperation in the Seven-Power Summits (with Nicholas Bayne) Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies (with Joel D. Nanetti)ĭouble-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics (edited with Peter B. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Feldstein)ĭemocracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society (editor) Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Disaffected Democracies: What’s Troubling the Trilateral Countries? (edited with Susan J. American Grace promises to be the most important book in decades about American religious life and an essential book for understanding our nation today.īetter Together: Restoring the American Community (with Lewis M. Jews are the most broadly popular religious group in America today.Religious Americans are better neighbors than secular Americans: more generous with their time and treasure even for secular causes-but the explanation has less to do with faith than with their communities of faith.Even fervently religious Americans believe that people of other faiths can go to heaven.Young people are more opposed to abortion than their parents but more accepting of gay marriage.Roughly one-third of Americans have switched religions at some point in their lives.Between one-third and one-half of all American marriages are interfaith.Nearly every chapter of American Grace contains a surprise about American religious life. It includes a dozen in-depth profiles of diverse congregations across the country, which illuminate how the trends described by Putnam and Campbell affect the lives of real Americans. American Grace is based on two of the most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on religion and public life in America. Putnam and Campbell show how this denser web of personal ties brings surprising interfaith tolerance, notwithstanding the so-called culture wars. Interfaith marriage has increased while religious identities have become more fluid. At the same time, personal interfaith ties are strengthening. The result has been a growing polarization-the ranks of religious conservatives and secular liberals have swelled, leaving a dwindling group of religious moderates in between. Since the 1990s, however, young people, turned off by that linkage between faith and conservative politics, have abandoned organized religion. Then in the 1970s and 1980s, a conservative reaction produced the rise of evangelicalism and the Religious Right. In the 1960s, religious observance plummeted. America has experienced three seismic shocks, say Robert Putnam and David Campbell. But in recent decades the nation’s religious landscape has been reshaped. Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America.
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