Dennis R. Hoover
Council on Faith in International Affairs

Books:
Religious Persecution as a U.S. Policy Issue
, 2000
[64-page book], edited by Rosalind I.J. Hackett, Mark Silk, and Dennis R. Hoover


Religion in the News articles:

Keeping the Faith-Based , Religion in the News, Spring 2009
President Obama retools the Faith-Based Initiative.

Mr. Harper Goes to Ottawa, Religion in the News, Summer 2006
Canada gets a faith-based leader of its own.

The Faith-Based Initiative Re-ups, Religion in the News, Spring 2005
The Bush administration attempts to resuscitate its faith-based initiative.

"Choosing Up Sides in the Middle East",  Religion in the News, Fall 2002. 
Civilizations are clashing, and on the home front religions are too.

"Faith Based Administration",  Religion in the News, Fall 2002. 
New 'faith-based' legislation foundered in 2002, but older laws and new regulations began to take hold.

"Cutting the Church Less Slack", Religion in the News, Summer 2002. 
Religious groups are losing the legal deference they once received.

"Missionaries or Not?", Religion in the News, Spring 2002. 
T
he media and the mission of Christian "aid workers" jailed in Afghanistan.

"Pacifism on the Record", Religion in the News, Fall 2001. 
The peace churches don’t all speak with one voice, before and after 9-11. 

"Faith-Based Update: Bipartisan Breakdown", Religion in the News, Summer 2001. 
President Bush’s faith-based social service initiative goes from a gimme to a maybe. 

"The Perils of Polling", Religion in the News, Summer 2001. 
Asking the wrong question on charitable choice. 

"Faith-Based Ambivalence", Religion in the News, Spring 2001. 
The "media elite" turns out to be cautiously open to the President’s advocacy of faith-based social services. 

"Ten Issues to Keep an Eye On", Religion in the News, Spring 2001. 
Issues for journalists to consider as coverage of the faith-based social services initiative moves forward. 

"What Would Moses Do?: Debt Relief in the Jubilee Year", Religion in the News, Spring 2001. 
European journalists were impressed with the multi-religious international debt relief campaign, while U.S. journalists generally shortchanged it --  despite its impressive political victories here. 

"Rome Relativism, and Reaction", Religion in the News, Fall 2000. 
The controversial Vatican statement, Dominus Iesus, generates strong, if confused, journalistic reaction. 

"A Religious Right Arrives in Canada", Religion in the News, Summer 2000. 
Socially conservative evangelicals emerge as a force to be reckoned with in Canada's national politics. 

"Peanuts for Christ", Religion in the News, Summer 2000. 
The traditional Christian worldview of Charles Schulz and of Peanuts. 

"Charitable Choice and the New Religious Center", Religion in the News, Spring 2000. 
Faith-based social services and presidential politics. 

"Spiritual Victimology", Religion in the News, Fall 1999. 
Jews and evangelicals as targets of hate crime.