http://www.pewforum.org/Explore Pew Forum event transcripts, which feature guests ranging from politicians to religious leaders to legal scholars discussing an array of topics and issues at the intersection of religion and public life. en-usCopyright: (C) Copyright 2009 The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. All rights reserved.info@pewforum.org (PewForum Info)info@pewforum.org (PewForum Info)60http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.pewforum.org/uploadedImages/_content/defaultPublicationThumb(1).gifhttp://www.pewforum.org/Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:22:15 GMTWed, 08 Feb 2012 13:22:15 GMTThu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMTIn a conference call with journalists, Pew Forum staff members discussed the findings of a new Pew Forum survey, Mormons in America: Certain in Their Beliefs, Uncertain of Their Place in Society. The survey examines Mormons’ religious beliefs and practices, political ideology, and attitudes toward their faith, family life, the media and society.http://www.pewforum.org/Christian/Mormon/mormons-in-america-event-transcript.aspxMon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMTIn a conference call with journalists, Pew Forum staff members discussed the findings of a new report, Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Christian Population.http://www.pewforum.org/Christian/Global-Christianity-event-transcript.aspxThu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMTIn a conference call for journalists, Pew Forum staff members discussed the findings in a new report, The Future of the Global Muslim Population.  http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/md2--Event-transcript.aspxThu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMTThe Pew Forum held a press luncheon with political science professors David Campbell and John Green on the topic of how religion both divides and unites Americans.http://www.pewforum.org/American-Grace--How-Religion-Divides-and-Unites-Us.aspxTue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTThe Pew Forum invited brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens to address the question of whether civilization needs God.http://www.pewforum.org/Belief-in-God/Can-Civilization-Survive-Without-God-.aspxTue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTThe Pew Forum’s Alan Cooperman and Greg Smith, along with Boston University professor and author Stephen Prothero and Krista Tippett of American Public Media, explore key findings from a new Pew Forum survey on how much Americans know about religion as part of a panel discussion at a national symposium on religious literacy in Washington, D.C.http://www.pewforum.org/US-Religious-Knowledge-An-Overview-of-the-Pew-Forum-Survey-Results-and-Implications.aspxWed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMTGeorge Mason University Professor Peter Mandaville,Dilwar Hussain of the Islamic Foundation, andMaha Azzam of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House discussed key findings of a Pew Forum study containing profiles of some of the oldest, largest and most influential Muslim groups.http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/Muslim-Networks-and-Movements-in-Western-Europe-Event-Transcript.aspxTue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTEuropean campaigns to ban burqas, the Swiss vote to bar new construction of minarets and attempted terrorist acts in the United States have renewed questions and concerns about the compatibility of Islam with Western society. Swiss-born scholar and philosopher of Islam Tariq Ramadan has written and spoken on the subject, generating widespread debate and reaction.http://www.pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/A-Conversation-With-Tariq-Ramadan.aspxMon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMTThe Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life held a conference call with journalists to discuss the release of a new Pew Forum survey that documents the fluidity of religious affiliation in the U.S. and describes the patterns and major reasons for change. http://www.pewforum.org/Faith-in-Flux-Changes-in-Religious-Affiliation-in-the-US.aspxFri, 25 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMTAt a time of heightened controversy surrounding the death penalty, most discourse relies upon the political, philosophical, and legal dimensions of the practice, and its racial and social implications. Quite often in this debate, religious traditions and theological perspectives are not fully explored beyond an occasional reference to "an eye for an eye" or calls for mercy and forgiveness. Religious voices, however, provide unique standpoints and important reflective dimensions that illuminate these political and other accounts of capital punishment.http://www.pewforum.org/Death-Penalty/A-Call-for-Reckoning-Religion-and-the-Death-Penalty.aspx