The Church in the 21st Century Center- webcast

The Church in the 21st Century Center and the Theology Dept. at Boston College recently webcast a panel discussing, "American Catholics and Election 2008: Issues of Conscience". The URL link will take you directly to the panel discussion. To further examine the The Church in the 21st Century Center, go to: http://www.bc.edu/church21.

The Pew Forum on Religion & the Public Life : Religion and Politics

"The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, launched in 2001, seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs.

The Forum pursues its mission by delivering timely, impartial information to national opinion leaders, including government officials and journalists. As a nonpartisan, non-advocacy organization, the Forum does not take positions on policy debates."

Sojourners - Faith, Politics, and Culture

The mission  of Soujourners "is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world."

Black churches and local politics : clergy influence, organizational partnerships, and civic empowerment

Table of Contents 

Capitalism and Christianity, American style

Conservative Christians and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook

Failing America's faithful : how today's churches mixed God with politics and lost their way

Faith in the city : preaching radical social change in Detroit

Friends of God: the evangelical movement in America

How the Republicans stole Christmas : the Republican Party's declared monopoly on religion and what Democrats can do to take it back

In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America

Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States

A Nation under God? : the ACLU and Religion in American Politics

One Electorate under God: : a Dialogue on Religion and American Politics

Our endangered values : America's moral crisis

People of God: the Struggle for World Catholicism

Politics and Religious Authority: American Catholics since the Second Vatican Council

The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism

Religion and Politics in the United States

Theological bioethics : participation, justice, and change

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This far by faith : African-American spiritual journeys

Documents the African-American religious experience during the last three centuries from the early African slaves, through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Era, and into the 21st century. Explores the struggle of African-Americans in their faith and how it became a force for social, political and cultural change in the United States