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EVENT TRANSCRIPT December 8, 2008
America and Islam After Bush
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December, 2008, for the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life.
EVENT TRANSCRIPT December 8, 2008
A Post-Election Look at Religious Voters in the 2008 Election
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December 2008 for the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life to look at the impact of religious voters in the 2008 election. 
EVENT TRANSCRIPT December 8, 2008
Religion and Race: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December 2008 for the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life.  
EVENT TRANSCRIPT October 2, 2008
Will the Culture War Matter on Election Day?
The selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate and Catholic bishops' criticism of Joe Biden's comments on when life begins have increased the attention paid to culture war issues.
EVENT TRANSCRIPT September 9, 2008
Analyzing the Fall Campaign: Religion and the Presidential Election
With less than two months before the presidential election in November, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life invited two senior researchers and a group of leading journalists to discuss recent findings on the role religion is playing in the presidential race.
EVENT TRANSCRIPT August 8, 2008
Targeting the Faithful
In the 2008 presidential campaign, both Democrats and Republicans have frequently spoken about the concept of faith and, in many cases, their own religious beliefs. 
EVENT TRANSCRIPT June 23, 2008
U.S. Religious Landscape Survey Report II
In a noon conference call for journalists, Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, together with fellows John Green and Greg Smith, released the second report of the Forum's path-breaking U.S. Religious Landscape Survey...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT June 23, 2008
Hein, One Year Later: The Future of Church-State Litigation
One year later, how have courts interpreted Hein? How will Hein affect the future direction of lawsuits involving the funding of religion?
EVENT TRANSCRIPT May 6, 2008
American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in May 2008 for the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life.
EVENT TRANSCRIPT May 5, 2008
Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans
A voter at a New Hampshire polling station. Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in May 2008 for the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. William A. Galston, a senior f...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT May 5, 2008
How Our Brains are Wired for Belief
Recent advances in neuroscience and brain-imaging technology have offered researchers a look into the physiology of religious experiences.
EVENT TRANSCRIPT May 1, 2008
Religion and Progressive Politics in 2008
A variety of religious voices have been prominent in the 2008 presidential campaign to date, and to the surprise of many observers, these voices include religious activists with liberal and progressive perspectives.
EVENT TRANSCRIPT April 1, 2008
The Pope Comes to America
Pope Benedict XVI's first visit to the U.S. as pontiff comes amid a turbulent election year. He has planned stops at the White House, the U.N. and the Sept. 11 "Ground Zero" site.
EVENT TRANSCRIPT March 4, 2008
Between Relativism and Fundamentalism: Is There a Middle Ground?
Peter Berger, an eminent sociologist of religion and a lifelong Lutheran, asked himself several years ago: "Would my moral convictions change if I woke up tomorrow as an atheist?"
EVENT TRANSCRIPT February 25, 2008
First Report on the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey
The survey, principally authored by Green and Smith, involved 20-minute interviews with 35,000 American adults and is therefore one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of its kind.
EVENT TRANSCRIPT February 21, 2008
Is the 'God Gap' Closing?
One significant pattern in the 2004 presidential election was the tendency of religiously observant Americans to vote Republican and the less observant to vote Democratic. But recent events suggest that this pattern, dubbed the "God gap," may be ...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT December 4, 2007
The Religion Factor in the 2008 Election
Video Highlights Watch more event videos on the multimedia page. Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December 2007 for the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life.John ...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT December 3, 2007
Religion and Secularism: The American Experience
Watch more event video on the multimedia page. More from the December 2007 Faith Angle Conference Religious Literacy: What Every American Should Know The Religion Factor in the 2008 Election More: Research, news, blogs Some of the nation's leadin...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT December 3, 2007
Religious Literacy: What Every American Should Know
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December 2007 for the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life.
EVENT TRANSCRIPT November 13, 2007
'Heroic Conservatism': A Conversation with Author Michael Gerson
Watch more event video on the multimedia page. The Pew Forum invited former presidential speechwriter Michael Gerson to discuss his new book, Heroic Conservatism, with Forum senior advisors Michael Cromartie and E.J. Dionne Jr. and a select group...
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