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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 1999, Vol. 2, No. 1
Cover Story:
A Civil Religious Affair
Journalists and politicos were baffled by the gap between their own outrage over the
Clinton scandals and the nation’s muted response. It’s the American Civil
Religion, stupid.
by Mark Silk
Covering the Bible Belt I:
Montgomery Wars: Religion and Alabama Politics
Would the Religious Right take over a state in 1998? Alabama’s flamboyant Gov. Fob
James won the Republican re-nomination and the attention of the national press with a
heady mixture of aggressive public Christianity and states rights rhetoric. But voters
weren’t buying.
by Gerald Johnson
Covering the Bible Belt II: A
Freethinker’s Testimony
You don’t have to be a believer to run a Southern newspaper.
by James A. Haught
Covering the Bible Belt III: Liaisons Religieuses
The University of North Carolina’s Department of Religious Studies and the News
and Observer of Raleigh team up.
by Tom Tweed and Yonat Shimron
God in the Press Box
How sports writers are dealing with the surging public piety of athletes.
by Terry Rifkin
Excommunication in Rochester
A liberal Catholic bishop gives a maverick priest an inch. He takes more than a mile. And
an important city parish gets caught in the crossfire.
by Anthony Burke Smith
No National Conspiracy
Did the media give up too quickly on the black church
burning story?
by Katie Day
Religion on the Small Screen
A small band of foundation-funded journalists goes boldly where few have gone before: to
produce professional journalism about religion for television.
by Andrew Walsh
Epic Respectability
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s straight-shooting, animated life of Moses, "The Prince of
Egypt," proves that religion sells at the cineplex.
by Anthony Burke Smith
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