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RIN Issues:

Spring 2008,
Vol.11, No.1

Winter 2008,
Vol. 10, No. 3

Summer/Fall 2007, Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2

Winter 2007
Vol. 9, No. 3

Fall 2006
Vol. 9, No. 2

Summer 2006
Vol.9, No.1

Winter 2006
Vol.8, No.3


Fall 2005,
Vol.8, No.2

Spring 2005,
Vol. 8, No. 1

Winter 2005,
Vol. 7, No. 3

Summer 2004,
Vol. 7, No. 2

Spring 2004
Vol. 7, No. 1

Fall 2003
Vol. 6, No. 3

Summer 2003
Vol 6  No. 2

Spring  2003  
Vol. 6  No. 1

Fall 2002
Vol. 5, No.3

Summer 2002
Vol. 5, No. 2

Spring 2002
Vol. 5, No. 1

Fall 2001
Vol. 4, No. 3

Summer 2001
Vol. 4, No. 2

Spring 2001
Vol. 4, No. 1


Fall 2000
Vol. 3, No. 3

Summer 2000
Vol. 3, No. 2

Spring 2000
Vol. 3, No. 1

Fall 1999
Vol. 2, No. 3

Summer 1999
Vol. 2, No. 2

Spring 1999
Vol. 2, No. 1

Fall 1998
Vol. 1, No. 2

Summer 1998
Vol. 1, No. 1

  Contents:  Spring 2008,Vol. 11, No. 1

Barack Obama and the Revival of Civil Religion

 

From the editor:
   
Vaticanese by Mark Silk

OBAMARAMA:

   Civil Religious Revival by R. Stephen Warner.
    Barack Obama draws on African-American religion to revitalize civil
    religion.                                                          

    Good For the Jews? by Ron Kiener
    
Jewish skepticism about voting for Obama.          

    The Wright Neighborhood by Dwight N. Hopkins.
     On Chicago's South Side, it's no mystery why Jeremiah Wright is popular.

     IRS: Bipartisan Tool by Marc Stern.
   Complaints to the IRS are now standard political hardball.

Sally Gets Religion
The Washington Post as trendsetter.

by Andrew Walsh

God and Mammon on the Web
It's hard to cash in on strictly religious websites.
b
y Reid Vineis

Off With Their Head Scarves
Turkey's political meltdown over head scarves.
b
y Colin M. Adams.  

Playing Godless
Television's dark diagnostician doesn't suffer believers gladly.
by Christine McCarthy McMorris

Letter to the Editor

Contributors     

New books:

One Nation, Divisible
by Mark Silk and Andrew Walsh

The Episcopal Church in Crisis
by
Frank Kirkpatrick 

 The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections, by John Green

Secularism and Science in the 21st Century,
eds. Ariela Keysar and Barry Kosmin
(ISSSC publication )

 

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