Paul Harvey has an additional comment on BeliefNet, re-framing it into the discussion of religion in the marketplace. Studying large media institutions, especially commercial ones like Beliefnet, is a significant contribution to examining religion in America, but I often find it a little soft. I have been wanting to read Selling God, the book Harvey points to, for a while now. This may spur me to go ahead and do so, especially with my American Religion course running again in the spring. Issues of the “spiritual marketplace” certainly come up in Chidester’s Authentic Fakes, one of the books I am using.
More interesting, perhaps, in another post Harvey points to recent Pew research on the demography of religious conservatism, showing that religious conservatism may be more aligned with progressive politics then conservative politics, at least based on party affiliation.
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