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The 1988 elections abruptly brought the importance of religion in
American politics into sharp focus. Two ministers, Pat Robertson
and Jesse Jackson, sought their party's presidential nominations by
mobilizing key religious constituencies. In addition, a host of
other religious groups, from the Catholic bishops to the Jewish
community, sought to influence the election outcome. More than
ever, religion was a critical factor in the ballots cast by
millions of Americans. As the twentieth century draws to a close,
it is clear that religion will continue to be a powerful factor in
electoral politics. This volume investigates the many ways religion
influenced electoral politics in 1988, tracing the links between
elites, activists, and voters in the major religious traditions.
Special attention is paid to the leaders of Protestant, Catholic,
and Jewish organizations; to important sets of activists, such as
ministers, party leaders, and campaign contributors; and to the
behavior of key voting blocs, including white evangelical and
mainline Protestants, black Protestants, Catholics, and Jews.
The 1988 elections abruptly brought the importance of religion in
American politics into sharp focus. Two ministers, Pat Robertson
and Jesse Jackson, sought their party's presidential nominations by
mobilizing key religious constituencies. In addition, a host of
other religious groups, from the Catholic bishops to the Jewish
community, sought to influence the election outcome. More than
ever, religion was a critical factor in the ballots cast by
millions of Americans. As the twentieth century draws to a close,
it is clear that religion will continue to be a powerful factor in
electoral politics. This volume investigates the many ways religion
influenced electoral politics in 1988, tracing the links between
elites, activists, and voters in the major religious traditions.
Special attention is paid to the leaders of Protestant, Catholic,
and Jewish organizations; to important sets of activists, such as
ministers, party leaders, and campaign contributors; and to the
behavior of key voting blocs, including white evangelical and
mainline Protestants, black Protestants, Catholics, and Jews.
The flagellates are a diverse assemblage of organisms unified by
the so-called "flagellate condition". They are ubiquitous and may
be, for example, free-living and autotrophic or heterotrophic;
symbiotic or parasitic; and aerobic or anaerobic. They are of great
phylogenetic significance since, on one hand, some of their
representatives are among the most primitive eukaryotes living and,
on the other, they are ancestral to animals and plants. The aim of
this book is to present a multidisciplinary view of the flagellates
exploring both their unity, in terms of their structure, mechanisms
and processes, and their diversity in terms of biogeography, niche
colonization, and adaptations to their environment. In addition,
evolutionary relationships amongst flagellates are explored.
The Flagellates presents a multidisciplinary view of the
flagellates exploring both their unity, in terms of their
structure, mechanisms and processes, and their diversity in terms
of biogeography, niche colonisation, and adaptations to their
environment. In addition, evolutionary relationships amongst
flagellates are explored. This is the only book published on this
subject and features the most up to date information available
making it an essential read for any one interested in or working in
this field.
The 10th International Basement Tectonics Conference was conducted
on the campus of the University of Minnesota, Duluth, in Duluth,
Minnesota, USA, from August I through August 11, 1992. A total of
78 individuals were in attendance, 47 of which represented the host
country, with the remaining 31 traveling from 11 different foreign
countries. The four days of presentations were divided into three
technical sessions, namely "Shear Zones," "Basement Control On
Younger Structures," and "Rifting Midcontinent Rift System." This
tripartite conference theme was also employed in the field trip
agenda with three excursions being offered, all ably organized by
Field Trip Chairman John C. Green. The pre-conference trip set the
stage through a two day review of the "Archean and Early
Proterozoic Rocks of Northeastern Minnesota." Under beautiful
summer skies, 16 sites were visited within the Vermilion district
of Minnesota, considered to be the best example of an Archean
greenstone belt in the United States. All registrants participated
in the mid-conference trip conducted along the gabbroic and
volcanic terrain of the "Midcontinent Rift, Northeastern
Minnesota.""
The Christian Right never ceases to surprise professional observers
of American politics. With the Christian coalition in disarray,
many expected that the movement would play less of a role in the
2004 elections. But when exit polls reported that "moral values"
were the most commonly cited reason for presidential vote choice,
pundits immediately proclaimed the importance of the "values vote."
Yet the role of the Christian Right, of statewide referenda on
same-sex marriage, and of religious mobilization remained the
subject of debate. "The Values Campaign? The Christian Right and
the 2004 Elections" reaches well beyond the instant analyses of the
post-election period to provide an assessment of the role of the
religious right in 2004. The contributors to this volume are among
the leading scholars of religion and politics in the United States,
and many have contributed for over a decade to ongoing discussions
of the role played by the religious right in national elections.
The authors consider national mobilization and issues, and also
explore the role of the Christian Right in specific states. Their
evaluations contend that the "values campaign" was not an
aberration but a consistent pattern of national politics, and that
moral traditionalism will likely continue to be a significant
factor in future elections. A timely study of the 2004 elections,
this volume will appeal to scholars and observers of electoral
politics, state politics, and religion and politics.
The Assemblies of God (AG) is the ninth largest American and the
world's largest Pentecostal denomination, with over 50 million
followers worldwide. The AG embraces a worldview of miracles and
mystery that makes"supernatural" experiences, such as speaking in
tongues, healing, and prophecy, normal for Christian believers.
Ever since it first organized in 1916, however, the "charismata" or
"gifts of the Holy Spirit" have felt tension from institutional
forces. Over the decades, vital charismatic experiences have been
increasingly tamed by rituals, doctrine, and denominational
structure. Yet the path towards institutionalization has not been
clear-cut. New revivals and direct personal experience of God-the
hallmarks of Pentecostalism-continue as an important part of the AG
tradition, particularly in the growing number of ethnic
congregations in the United States. The Assemblies of God draws on
fresh, up-to-date research including quantitative surveys and
interviews from twenty-two diverse Assemblies of God congregations
to offer a new sociological portrait of the AG for the new
millennium. The authors suggest that there is indeed a potential
revitalization of the movement in the works within the context of
the larger global Pentecostal upswing, and that this revitalization
may be spurred by what the authors call "godly love:" the dynamic
interaction between divine and human love that enlivens and expands
benevolence. The volume provides a wealth of data about how the
second-largest American Pentecostal denomination sees itself today,
and suggests trends to illuminate where it is headed in the future.
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more
influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced
by recent presidential elections and the creation of the
faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists'
ignorance about theological convictions has often worked to distort
the public discourse on important policy issues. Pope John Paul
II's pronouncements on stem-cell research, the constitutional
controversies regarding faith-based initiatives, the emerging
participation of Muslims in American life-issues like these require
political journalists in print and broadcast media to cover
religious contexts that many admit they are ill-equipped to
understand. Put differently, these news events reflect subtle
theological nuances and deep faith commitments that shape the
activities of religious believers in the public square. Inasmuch as
a faith tradition is an active or significant participant in the
public arena, journalists will need to better understand the
theological sources and religious convictions that motivate this
political activity. The current national discourse has brought
faith and its relationship to public policy to the forefront of our
daily news. Since 1999, the Ethics and Public Policy Center,
through the generosity of the Pew Charitable Trusts, has hosted six
conferences for national journalists to help raise the level of
their reporting by increasing their understanding of religion,
religious communities, and the religious convictions that inform
the political activity of devout believers. This book contains the
presentations and conversations that grew out of those conferences.
Conservative Protestants are mentioned repeatedly in the ongoing
conversation about social capital, individualism, and community in
the United States. As John Wilson notes in his introduction,
evangelicals are frequently discussed either as a threat to civil
society or as apparent counterexamples to the prevailing view of
American society's fragmentation. The essays in this volume take
another look at the role of evangelicals in American civic life.
The prominent contributors examine evangelicals' beliefs and
activity on topics ranging from bioethics to race relations and
welfare reform to international human rights. Taken together, the
essays show that, contrary to what critics have proclaimed, the
social commitment of evangelicals extends considerably beyond
family-related issues, and that their activity in the public sphere
makes an essential contribution to the public good. Clearly written
and persuasively argued, A Public Faith: Evangelicals and Civic
Engagement is a powerful correction to the misconceptions about
evangelicals that abound in the current civil-society debate.
Co-published with the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Social movements in the United States are important political
actors because of their scale and duration, their generation of new
ideas and understandings of existing problems, their ability to
mobilize those who were previously passive citizens, and the
impetus they provide for restructuring and broadening the agenda of
American politics. This volume combines chapters by a distinguished
group of social movement scholars, from both sociology and
political science, who use perspectives ranging from political
process theory to rational choice and collective action approaches
to evaluate the functioning of institutions of American government
and the public policies that they produce. A diverse group of
movements and interests are featured: women, public interest,
native America, the environment, the Christian Right, abortion, gay
rights, and homelessness among them.
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Financing the 2020 Election
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Theatre in Dublin,1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances is the
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theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres
between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley
Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in
1820. The daily performance calendar for each of the seventy-five
seasons recorded here records and organizes all surviving
documentary evidence pertinent to each evening's entertainments,
derived from all known sources, but especially from playbills and
newspaper advertisements. Each theatre's daily entry includes all
preludes, mainpieces, interludes, and afterpieces with casts and
assigned roles, followed by singing and singers, dancing and
dancers, and specialty entertainments. Financial data, program
changes, rehearsal notices, authorship and premiere information are
included in each component's entry, as is the text of contemporary
correspondence and editorial contextualization and commentary,
followed by other additional commentary, such as the many hundreds
of printed puffs, notices, and performance reviews. In the cases of
the programs of music halls, pleasure gardens, and circuses, the
playbills have generally been transcribed verbatim. The calendar
for each season is preceded by an analytical headnote that presents
several categories of information including, among other things, an
alphabetical listing of all members of each company, whether
actors, musicians, specialty artists, or house servants, who are
known to have been employed at each venue. Limited biographical
commentary is included, particularly about performers of Irish
origin, who had significant stage careers but who did not perform
in London. Each headnote presents the seasons's offerings of
entertainments of each theatrical type (prelude, mainpiece,
interlude, afterpiece) analyzed according to genre, including a
list of the number of plays in each genre and according to period
in which they were first performed. The headnote also notes the
number of different plays by Shakespeare staged during each season
and gives particular attention to entertainments of "special Irish
interest." The various kinds of benefit performance and command
performances are also noted. Finally, this Calendar of Performances
contains an appendix that furnishes a season-by-season listing of
the plays that were new to the London patent theatres, and, later,
of the important "minors." This information is provided in order
for us to understand the interrelatedness of the London and Dublin
repertories.
Mormons have long had an outsized presence in American culture and
politics, but they remain largely unknown to most Americans. Recent
years have seen the political prominence of Mormons taken to a new
level - including the presidential candidacy of Republican Mitt
Romney, the prominent involvement of Mormons in the campaign for
California's Proposition 8 (anti-gay marriage), and the ascendancy
of Democrat Harry Reid to the position of Senate Majority Leader.
This book provides the most thorough examination ever written of
Mormons' place in the American political landscape - what Mormons
are like politically and how non-Mormons respond to Mormon
candidates. However, this is a book about more than Mormons. As a
religious subculture in a pluralistic society, Mormons are a case
study of how a religious group balances distinctiveness and
assimilation - a question faced by all faiths.
Continuing a three-decade tradition, The State of the Parties 7th
edition brings together leading experts to evaluate change and
continuity in American electoral politics. Political parties in
America have never been more contentious and divided than they are
right now. Even splits within the parties themselves have the power
to elevate relatively unknown candidates to power and topple
established incumbents. With sections devoted to polarization and
the electorate, polarization and political elites, tea party
politics, super PACS, and partisan resources and partisan
activities, the contributors survey the American political
landscape. They pay special attention to polarization between and
within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election,
demographic changes to America's political parties, the effects of
new media and campaign finance laws on national and local electoral
results, the Tea Party's rise and, as always, the implications of
all these factors on future policymaking and electoral prospects.
The State of the Parties 7th edition offers an indispensable guide
to American politics for scholars, students, and practitioners.
Contributions by: Alan Abramowitz, Paul A. Beck, Michael John
Burton, Edward G. Carmines, Daniel J. Coffey, William F. Connelly,
Jr., Meredith Dost, Diana Dwyre, Michael J. Ensley, Peter L.
Francia, Erik Heidemann,,Shannon Jenkins, Caitlin E. Jewitt, David
C. Kimball, Robin Kolodny, Thad Kousser, David B. Magleby, Seth
Masket, William G. Mayer, Eric McGhee, William J. Miller, Jonathan
S. Morris, Ronald Rapoport, Douglas D. Roscoe, Dante Scala, Daniel
M. Shea, Boris Shor, Walter Stone, Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Eric C.
Vorst, Michael W. Wagner
The State of the Parties 2022 brings together leading scholars of
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election was extraordinary. What role did political parties play in
these events? How did the party organizations fare? What are the
implications for the future? Scholars and practitioners from
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state and local level.
Theatre in Dublin,1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances is the
first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000
performances that took place in Dublin's many professional
theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres
between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley
Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in
1820. The daily performance calendar for each of the seventy-five
seasons recorded here records and organizes all surviving
documentary evidence pertinent to each evening's entertainments,
derived from all known sources, but especially from playbills and
newspaper advertisements. Each theatre's daily entry includes all
preludes, mainpieces, interludes, and afterpieces with casts and
assigned roles, followed by singing and singers, dancing and
dancers, and specialty entertainments. Financial data, program
changes, rehearsal notices, authorship and premiere information are
included in each component's entry, as is the text of contemporary
correspondence and editorial contextualization and commentary,
followed by other additional commentary, such as the many hundreds
of printed puffs, notices, and performance reviews. In the cases of
the programs of music halls, pleasure gardens, and circuses, the
playbills have generally been transcribed verbatim. The calendar
for each season is preceded by an analytical headnote that presents
several categories of information including, among other things, an
alphabetical listing of all members of each company, whether
actors, musicians, specialty artists, or house servants, who are
known to have been employed at each venue. Limited biographical
commentary is included, particularly about performers of Irish
origin, who had significant stage careers but who did not perform
in London. Each headnote presents the seasons's offerings of
entertainments of each theatrical type (prelude, mainpiece,
interlude, afterpiece) analyzed according to genre, including a
list of the number of plays in each genre and according to period
in which they were first performed. The headnote also notes the
number of different plays by Shakespeare staged during each season
and gives particular attention to entertainments of "special Irish
interest." The various kinds of benefit performance and command
performances are also noted. Finally, this Calendar of Performances
contains an appendix that furnishes a season-by-season listing of
the plays that were new to the London patent theatres, and, later,
of the important "minors." This information is provided in order
for us to understand the interrelatedness of the London and Dublin
repertories.
Theatre in Dublin,1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances is the
first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000
performances that took place in Dublin's many professional
theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres
between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley
Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in
1820. The daily performance calendar for each of the seventy-five
seasons recorded here records and organizes all surviving
documentary evidence pertinent to each evening's entertainments,
derived from all known sources, but especially from playbills and
newspaper advertisements. Each theatre's daily entry includes all
preludes, mainpieces, interludes, and afterpieces with casts and
assigned roles, followed by singing and singers, dancing and
dancers, and specialty entertainments. Financial data, program
changes, rehearsal notices, authorship and premiere information are
included in each component's entry, as is the text of contemporary
correspondence and editorial contextualization and commentary,
followed by other additional commentary, such as the many hundreds
of printed puffs, notices, and performance reviews. In the cases of
the programs of music halls, pleasure gardens, and circuses, the
playbills have generally been transcribed verbatim. The calendar
for each season is preceded by an analytical headnote that presents
several categories of information including, among other things, an
alphabetical listing of all members of each company, whether
actors, musicians, specialty artists, or house servants, who are
known to have been employed at each venue. Limited biographical
commentary is included, particularly about performers of Irish
origin, who had significant stage careers but who did not perform
in London. Each headnote presents the seasons's offerings of
entertainments of each theatrical type (prelude, mainpiece,
interlude, afterpiece) analyzed according to genre, including a
list of the number of plays in each genre and according to period
in which they were first performed. The headnote also notes the
number of different plays by Shakespeare staged during each season
and gives particular attention to entertainments of "special Irish
interest." The various kinds of benefit performance and command
performances are also noted. Finally, this Calendar of Performances
contains an appendix that furnishes a season-by-season listing of
the plays that were new to the London patent theatres, and, later,
of the important "minors." This information is provided in order
for us to understand the interrelatedness of the London and Dublin
repertories.
Theatre in Dublin,1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances is the
first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000
performances that took place in Dublin's many professional
theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres
between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley
Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in
1820. The daily performance calendar for each of the seventy-five
seasons recorded here records and organizes all surviving
documentary evidence pertinent to each evening's entertainments,
derived from all known sources, but especially from playbills and
newspaper advertisements. Each theatre's daily entry includes all
preludes, mainpieces, interludes, and afterpieces with casts and
assigned roles, followed by singing and singers, dancing and
dancers, and specialty entertainments. Financial data, program
changes, rehearsal notices, authorship and premiere information are
included in each component's entry, as is the text of contemporary
correspondence and editorial contextualization and commentary,
followed by other additional commentary, such as the many hundreds
of printed puffs, notices, and performance reviews. In the cases of
the programs of music halls, pleasure gardens, and circuses, the
playbills have generally been transcribed verbatim. The calendar
for each season is preceded by an analytical headnote that presents
several categories of information including, among other things, an
alphabetical listing of all members of each company, whether
actors, musicians, specialty artists, or house servants, who are
known to have been employed at each venue. Limited biographical
commentary is included, particularly about performers of Irish
origin, who had significant stage careers but who did not perform
in London. Each headnote presents the seasons's offerings of
entertainments of each theatrical type (prelude, mainpiece,
interlude, afterpiece) analyzed according to genre, including a
list of the number of plays in each genre and according to period
in which they were first performed. The headnote also notes the
number of different plays by Shakespeare staged during each season
and gives particular attention to entertainments of "special Irish
interest." The various kinds of benefit performance and command
performances are also noted. Finally, this Calendar of Performances
contains an appendix that furnishes a season-by-season listing of
the plays that were new to the London patent theatres, and, later,
of the important "minors." This information is provided in order
for us to understand the interrelatedness of the London and Dublin
repertories.
One of the nation's foremost scholars in the history of ideas
explores the impact of Darwin's evolutionary biology on the
religious and intellectual thought of the past century.
The State of the Parties 2022 brings together leading scholars of
parties, elections, and interest groups to provide an indispensable
overview of American political parties today. The 2020 presidential
election was extraordinary. What role did political parties play in
these events? How did the party organizations fare? What are the
implications for the future? Scholars and practitioners from
throughout the United States explore the current state of American
party organizations, constituencies and resources at the national,
state and local level.
American society is rapidly secularizing-a radical departure from
its historically high level of religiosity-and politics is a big
part of the reason. Just as, forty years ago, the Religious Right
arose as a new political movement, today secularism is gaining
traction as a distinct and politically energized identity. This
book examines the political causes and political consequences of
this secular surge, drawing on a wealth of original data. The
authors show that secular identity is in part a reaction to the
Religious Right. However, while the political impact of secularism
is profound, there may not yet be a Secular Left to counterbalance
the Religious Right. Secularism has introduced new tensions within
the Democratic Party while adding oxygen to political polarization
between Democrats and Republicans. Still there may be opportunities
to reach common ground if politicians seek to forge coalitions that
encompass both secular and religious Americans.
American society is rapidly secularizing-a radical departure from
its historically high level of religiosity-and politics is a big
part of the reason. Just as, forty years ago, the Religious Right
arose as a new political movement, today secularism is gaining
traction as a distinct and politically energized identity. This
book examines the political causes and political consequences of
this secular surge, drawing on a wealth of original data. The
authors show that secular identity is in part a reaction to the
Religious Right. However, while the political impact of secularism
is profound, there may not yet be a Secular Left to counterbalance
the Religious Right. Secularism has introduced new tensions within
the Democratic Party while adding oxygen to political polarization
between Democrats and Republicans. Still there may be opportunities
to reach common ground if politicians seek to forge coalitions that
encompass both secular and religious Americans.
The State of the Parties 2018 brings together leading scholars of
parties, elections, and interest groups to provide an indispensable
overview of American political parties today. The 2016 presidential
election was extraordinary, especially the unexpected nomination
and election of Donald Trump to the White House. What role did
political parties play in these events? How did the party
organizations fare? What are the implications for the future?
Scholars and practitioners from throughout the United States
explore the current state of American party organizations,
constituencies and resources at the national, state and local
level. Contributions by Alan Abramowitz, Joseph Anthony, Julia R.
Azari, Paul A. Beck, Edward G. Carmines, Tyler Chance, Daniel J.
Coffey, David B. Cohen, Diana Dwyre, Michael J. Ensley, John C.
Green, Richard Gunther, Jennifer A. Heerwig, Paul S. Herrnson,
Caitlin E. Jewitt, David C. Kimball, Robin Kolodny, Drew Kurlowski,
Seth Masket, Erik C. Nisbet, Sam Rosenfeld, Daniel Schlozman,
Mildred A. Schwartz, Daniel M. Shea, Doug Spencer, Wayne Steger,
Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Eric C. Vorst, Michael W. Wagner, and Steven
W. Webster.
The State of the Parties 2018 brings together leading scholars of
parties, elections, and interest groups to provide an indispensable
overview of American political parties today. The 2016 presidential
election was extraordinary, especially the unexpected nomination
and election of Donald Trump to the White House. What role did
political parties play in these events? How did the party
organizations fare? What are the implications for the future?
Scholars and practitioners from throughout the United States
explore the current state of American party organizations,
constituencies and resources at the national, state and local
level. Contributions by Alan Abramowitz, Joseph Anthony, Julia R.
Azari, Paul A. Beck, Edward G. Carmines, Tyler Chance, Daniel J.
Coffey, David B. Cohen, Diana Dwyre, Michael J. Ensley, John C.
Green, Richard Gunther, Jennifer A. Heerwig, Paul S. Herrnson,
Caitlin E. Jewitt, David C. Kimball, Robin Kolodny, Drew Kurlowski,
Seth Masket, Erik C. Nisbet, Sam Rosenfeld, Daniel Schlozman,
Mildred A. Schwartz, Daniel M. Shea, Doug Spencer, Wayne Steger,
Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Eric C. Vorst, Michael W. Wagner, and Steven
W. Webster.
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