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| What is the central research question of Randall Balmer's book, God in the White House? |
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- How do we get from point A to point B
- Asking for strict seperation to including religion |
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| Regarding the proper role of religion in American politics, what does Balmer claim as John F. Kennedy's principle contribution? That is, what does Balmer identify as the Kennedy model or paradigm? |
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| - Church and state is to remain absolutley seperate |
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| According to Randall Balmer, what immediate event promted John Kennedy to accept an invitation to speak on religion and politics before the Greater Ministerial Association of Houston Texas on September 12, 1960. |
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- Mayflower meeting
- Conservative Protestant leaders |
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| What are the TWO religion clauses found in the First Amendment (1791) of the U.S. Constitution? |
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1 - Establishment Clause
2 - Free Exercise Clause |
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| Based upon the actual language of the First Amendment, which religion clause is obviously more important than the other? |
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| Explaining why the United States is different, exceptional, ______, a former Vice President and devout Presbyterian, asked in his 1999 book Worth Fighting For, "who is our sovereign?" His answer: "of course it is God, not the State, not the government or any political movement. America is a God-fearing nation, and we must proceed from that basic premise. This country was literally founded on faith in God." |
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| According to David Domke, the "god strategy" began with _______________ when he asked delegates at his party's national convention as they began their "crusade" to join him in a "moment of silent prayer." |
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| Upon accpeting the offer to run as vice president, _____________ said to the American people from Nashville: "I am proud to stand by your side and ready to use every once of strength and capacity that the good Lord has given me to make you the next great president of the United States. Dear friends, I am so full of gratitude at this moment. I ask you to allow me to let the spirit move me, as it does, to remember the words from Chronicles, which are to give thanks to God, and declare his name and make his acts known to the people; to be glad of spirit; to sing to God and make music to God, and most of all, to give glory and gratitude to God from whom all blessings truly do flow. Dear Lord, maker of all miracles, I thank you for bringing me to this extaordinary moment of my life." |
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| While in Jerusalem, ___________ put this prayer into the Western Wall, the holiest site in the Jewish tradition: "Lord--Protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will." |
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| According to Randall Balmer in God in the White House, ______ was the first "redeemer president" of the modern era, because he "reintroduced matters of faith and belief into the arena of public discourse" and ran on a promise "to cleanse the temple of the White House of the sins of [his] predecessors." |
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| ________, in his benediction prayer at the 1976 Democratic National Convention, said, "Surely the Lord is in this place. Surely the Lord sent Jimmy Carter to come on out and bring American back where she belongs." |
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| Early in his presidency, in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, _____ wrote that the United States Constitution built "a wall of separation between Church and State." |
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| As noted by Time magazine's Nancy Gibbs in her article, "The Catholic Conundrum," more than a few Democrats from the more liberal wing of the party doubted, both publicly and privately, whether Kennedy as a Cahtolic "could keep church and state separate." One of those who publicly doubted this was former first lady ______ |
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| In the article, "Religion as a political weapon," what does David Domke identify as the "God strategy"? |
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| Using religion will get you support from the religious community. |
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| In the article, "Religion as a political weapon," what does David Domke identify as a "pilgrimage"? |
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1 - Visiting Holy Sites
2 - When politicians will go and give speeches at religious meetings |
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| According to a 2007 Newsweek magazine article, "The Authenticity Test," Democrat John Kerry says he regrets something concerning his Catholic faith and the 2004 election. What does he now regret? |
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| He regrets not talking about god and his Catholic faith |
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In The Faith Factor, John C. Green argued that religion may be expressed in three forms. One of these is behaving. Which of Green’s three categories of religion is BEST expressed or reflected in each of the following statements about the faith of John Kennedy? (Consider each statement in its entirety.)
"[Kennedy] was a Catholic as Franklin Roosevelt was an Episcopalian---because he was born into the faith, lived in it and expected to die in it." |
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In The Faith Factor, John C. Green argued that religion may be expressed in three forms. One of these is behaving. Which of Green’s three categories of religion is BEST expressed or reflected in each of the following statements about the faith of John Kennedy? (Consider each statement in its entirety.)
I think it is so unfair of people to be against Jack because he's Catholic. He's such a poor Catholic. Now if it were Bobby: he never misses mass and prays all the time." -- Jacqueline (Bouvier) Kennedy |
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| In The Faith Factor, John C. Green argued that religion may be expressed in three forms. One of these is behaving. Which of Green’s three categories of religion is BEST expressed or reflected in each of the following statements about the faith of John Kennedy? (Consider each statement in its entirety.) I am Catholic, but the fact that I was born a Catholic, does that mean that I can't be the President of the United States? --John F. Kennedy |
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| In The Faith Factor, John C. Green argued that religion may be expressed in three forms. One of these is behaving. Which of Green’s three categories of religion is BEST expressed or reflected in each of the following statements about the faith of John Kennedy? (Consider each statement in its entirety.) About her brother's Catholic faith when compared with the rest of the Kennedy family, sister Eunice said that John Kennedy was "a little less convinced about some things than the rest of us." --- Eunice (Kennedy) Shriver |
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In The Faith Factor, John C. Green argued that religion may be expressed in three forms. One of these is behaving. Which of Green’s three categories of religion is BEST expressed or reflected in each of the following statements about the faith of John Kennedy? (Consider each statement in its entirety.)
"[Kennedy] was just as good a Catholic as I am... He spent more time in private prayer than many people know." --Archbishop Richard Cardinal Ccushing of Boston |
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In The Faith Factor, John C. Green argued that religion may be expressed in three forms. One of these is behaving. Which of Green’s three categories of religion is BEST expressed or reflected in each of the following statements about the faith of John Kennedy? (Consider each statement in its entirety.)
"[N}ot once in eleven years---despite all our discussions of church-state affairs---did he ever disclose his personal views on man's relation to God." Kennedy cared "not a whit for theology." --Ted C. Sorensen |
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| TRUE or FALSE. According to a recent Gallup Organization report (August 27, 2010), some religious groups have very low opinion of President Barack Obama's job performance so far. Others, however, give the President very high marks. According to the report, Jewish Americans give President Obama the highest marks, while Catholics give him the lowest ratings. |
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TRUE OR FALSE.
According to Edward Larson's article, "Declarations of Faith, " religion played a key role in the presidential election of 1800 because it featured one party, the federalists, that ran as a pro-religion party on behalf of its candidate John Adams against the other party, the Democratic-Republicans, that refused to engage in religious politics out of respect for its candidate Thomas Jefferson. |
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Reflecting upon his defeat inthe 2004 election, Democrat John Kerry told Newsweek that the current reality in American politics is that while a candidate for president does not have to be a regular churchgoer to be elected, he/she cannot under any circumstances be an atheist or agnostic. |
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According to the article by Dan Gilgoff, Though a 1954 federal law prohibits tax-exempt organizations (includeing chrches) from advotcating the election or defeat of political candiddates, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has never seriously enforced it. |
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According to Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes, Americans' belief in God and expressions of religiousity, when compared with most of the world, are not exceptional. In fact, they argue, in religious matters, it is the Europeans who are exceptional for their secularism. |
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For many decades, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, the secularization thesis prevailed in the academic world. According to this view, as societies became more modern, religion would become increasingly irrelevant and ultimately fade away. |
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In "Our real national pastitime," an aritlce by Richard W. Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, the concept of "separation" is of misunderstood. He argued that "separation" means essentially this: religion is to remain an "entirely private" matter, something "confined to the sanctuary, the Sabbath, and the self." |
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(Garnett is argueing the opposite) |
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TRUE OR FALSE.
In Marsh v. Chambers (1983), a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supremem Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for legislatures, federal or state, to open their sessions with prayer. |
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(Court upheld prayers to lead sessions) |
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With the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791, all state-sponsored religious establishments were declared to be unconstitutional and all states, such as Massachusetts and Connecticut, were required to immediately to disestablish their churches. |
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Congress is the First Amendment |
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| Instead of fading away as expected, Timothy Samuel Shah and Monica Duffy Toft argued that "God is winning" across the globe. Indeed, they wrote that th emodern world has proved to be quite "hospitable to religious belief." According to Shah and Toft, globalization and religion's (particularly conservative religion) general adaptiation to and embrace of 20th century/ early 21st centry's technological advances, from radio and television to the internet, are among the principal reasons for why religion has not only survived in the modern world, but is flourinshing. Name ONE additional reason Shah and Toft offer to explain for religion's reemergence and surprising vitality. |
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| The failure of secularity |
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