RELIGION AND POLITICAL LINKS

PLS 330

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

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GENERAL DATA SOURCES

 

ARCHIVES AND DATASETS

·         Association of Religion Data Archives

·         Faith Communities Today Project

·         Supreme Court Church-State Decisions

·         National Election Studies

·         General Social Survey

·         Religious Movements Homepage

·         Henry Institute Datalist

·         Barna Research Group

 

MAJOR SURVEYS AND REPORTS

·         Faith Communities Today (Hartford Seminary, 2001)

·         Gallup International Millennium Survey (Gallup International, 1999)

·         Hispanic Churches in American Public Life (Center for the Study of Latino Religion, 2003)

·         National Congregations Study

·         National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01 (United Jewish Communities, 2003)

·         The Mosque in America: A National Portrait (2001)

·         Pew Religion and Public Life Survey Reports, 2000-present (Pew Research Center / Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 2000-present)

·         Religion II: ISSP Codebook 1998 (International Social Survey Programme, 2001)

 

RELATED SURVEYS AND REPORTS

·         Evenly Divided and Increasingly Polarized: 2004 Political Landscape (Pew Research Center, 2003)

·         Private School Universe Survey: 1999-2000 (US Department of Education, 2001)

·         Homeschooling in the United States: 1999 (US Department of Education, 2001)

 

RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS / DENOMINATIONAL LINKS

GENERAL DENOMINATIONAL LISTING

 

CATHOLICS

·                     US Conference of Catholic Bishops

·                     Eastern Rite

 

EVANGELICALS

·                     National Association of Evangelicals [umbrella group]

·                     Assemblies of God

·                     Christian Reformed Church

·                     Church of God (Holiness)

·                     Evangelical Free Church

·                     Four Square Gospel

·                     Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod

·                     Lutheran Church -- Wisconsin Synod

·                     Mennonite

·                     Presbyterian Church in America

·                     Salvation Army

·                     Seventh Day Adventists

·                      Southern Baptist Convention

·                     Willow Creek Church (non-denom)

 

MAINLINE PROTESTANTS

·                     National Council of Churches [umbrella group]

·                     American Baptist Churches in the USA

·                     Disciples of Christ

·                      Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

·                     Episcopal Church

·                     Presbyterian Church, USA

·                     Reformed Church in America

·                     Society of Friends

·                     United Church of Christ

·                     United Methodist Church

 

JEWISH

·                     Orthodox Judaism

·                     United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism

·                     Union of American Hebrew Congregations (Reform Judaism)

 

BLACK PROTESTANT

·                     African Methodist Episcopal (AME)

·                     American Baptist Churches in the USA

·                     Church of God in Christ

·                     National Baptist Convention of America

·                     National Baptist Convention, USA

 

EASTERN ORTHODOX

·                     Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

 

CONSERVATIVE NONTRADITIONAL

·                     Church of Christ, Scientist

·                     Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

·                     Jehovah's Witnesses

 

LIBERAL NONTRADITIONAL

·                     Unitarian Universalist

 

ISLAM

·                     Islamic Centers -- General Listing

·                     Islamic Society of North America

 

EASTERN AND OTHERS

·                     Bahá'i

·                     Buddhism

·                     Hinduism (ISCKON)

 

 

ADVOCACY GROUPS

 

·         American Center for Law and Justice

·         Concerned Women for America

·         American Family Association

·         Eagle Forum

·         American Jewish Committee

·         Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention

·         American Jewish Congress

·         Evangelicals for Social Action

·         American Israel Public Affairs Committee

·         Family Research Council

·         Americans United for the Separation of Church and State

·         Focus on the Family

·         Anti-Defamation League

·         Freedom from Religion Foundation

·         Baptist Joint Committee

·         Interfaith Alliance

·         Bread for the World

·         Liberty Counsel

·         Call to Renewal / Sojourners

·         Morality in Media

·         Catholic Conferences -- state level

·         National Right to Life Committee

·         Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights

·         Office of Government Liason, US Conference of Catholic Bishops

·         Catholics for Free Choice

·         People for the American Way

·         Center for Law and Religious Freedom, Christian Legal Society

·         Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

·         Chalcedon Foundation

·         Rutherford Institute

·         Christian Coalition

 

 

CENTERS AND THINK TANKS

 

 

RELIGIOUS AND RELIGION-RELATED PERIODICALS

 

·         Faith and International Affairs

·         The Banner

·         First Things

·         Books and Culture

·         National Catholic Reporter

·         Christianity Today

·         Sojourners

·         Christian Century

·         Church and State

·         Commonweal

 

 

GENERAL SITES ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE

 

·         Pew Forum on Public Life and Religion

·         beliefnet.com

·         Religious and Ethics Newsweekly