Beyond guns and god: The complexities of the white working class in America
2012 report from the Public Religion Research Institute on the cultural and political beliefs of white working-class Americans.
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Rise of Muslim foreign fighters: Islam and the globalization of jihad
2011 article in International Security on distinctions between Muslim foreign fighters and terrorists, and related policy implications.
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Stereotypes of Muslims and support for the war on terror
2013 study from George Washington University noting that stereotypes against Muslims and Muslim-Americans persist and examining the nature of these general attitudes.
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2012 General Social Survey: More Americans have no religious preference
2013 report from U.C. Berkeley and Duke University on the results of a long-running survey by the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center.
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Pope Francis, Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church: Research and background data
2013 review of reports and studies that provide helpful background on the Roman Catholic Church, its demographic composition and related issues.
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National Leadership Index 2012: A national study of confidence in leadership
2012 study by the Harvard Kennedy School analyzes citizens’ confidence in leadership across 13 different sectors, including the military, medicine, politics and more.
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Do Latino Christians and seculars fit the “culture war” profile? Latino religiosity and politics
2012 study by the University of Southern Mississippi in the journal Politics and Religion on religion and politics in the Latino community.
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Courting Christians: How candidates prime religious considerations in campaign ads
2012 study from Louisiana State University in The Journal of Politics on the impact of religious messaging in political advertisements.
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Views on democracy in the Muslim world: Pew Global Attitudes Project 2012 report
2012 Pew Research Center report evaluated changing views of individuals in Muslim countries regarding government, equality and the effects of the Arab Spring
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Evangelical elites’ changing responses to homosexuality, 1960-2009
2012 study from researchers at Purdue University published in Sociology of Religion on the evolution in attitudes of evangelicals toward gays over time.
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