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| Bioethics and American Democracy |
The Project on Bioethics and American Democracy seeks to encourage moral reflection and thoughtful political deliberation on emerging biotechnologies and their impact on the character of American life.
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| Catholic Studies |
The Catholic Studies Project explores the many connections between Catholicism and public life and seeks to clarify and deepen knowledge of modern Catholic social thought.
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| The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture |
EPPC's program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture explores the proper role of the courts in construing the Constitution.
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| Economics and Ethics |
The Economics and Ethics Program studies the relation of modern economic theory to its Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman origins, its practical application to personal, family, and political economy, and the interaction of economics, philosophical worldviews, and religious faith.
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| Evangelicals in Civic Life |
The Evangelicals in Civic Life program aims to expand the civic dialogue among evangelical leaders and to expound an evangelical understanding of civic engagement.
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| Foreign Policy |
The Foreign Policy project addresses issues of America's political, economic, and human-rights responsibilities in the world, and seeks to clarify how America's religious traditions should affect its foreign policy.
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| Islam and American Democracy |
Islam and American Democracy is a project committed to exploring the civic and political views and contributions of American Muslims in the United States, and their contribution to the wider Muslim world.
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| Jewish Studies |
The Jewish Studies project analyzes Jewish religious, social, and political life in the United States. Through seminars, conferences, and publications, it seeks to bring together students of American Jewish life—Jewish and non-Jewish, lay and clerical, Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform—to promote a better understanding of such matters as the relationship between American Jews and Israel, relations among the Jewish denominations, attitudes of Jews and Protestant evangelicals toward each other, and Jewish political behavior.
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| Program to Protect America's Freedom |
EPPC's Program to Protect America's Freedom, directed by Senior Fellow (and former U.S. Senator) Rick Santorum, works to identify, study, and heighten awareness of the threats to America and the West from a growing array of anti-Western forces and states that increasingly cast a shadow over our future and that violate religious liberty around the world.
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| Religion and the Media |
The Religion and the Media program aims to strengthen reporting and commentary on the impact of religious conviction and religiously grounded moral argument in American politics and public life.
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| Science, Technology, and Society |
The program on Science, Technology, and Society studies the moral, political, philosophical, and social questions posed by modern science and technology.
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| South Asian Studies and Religious Nationalism |
The South Asian Studies looks at religion and its impact on democratic governance in that region.
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| Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society |
The Tertio Millennio Seminar is dedicated to deepening the dialogue on Catholic social doctrine between North American students and students from the new democracies of central and eastern Europe.
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The Latest Books from EPPC Scholars
 EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel's new book is essential reading in a time of momentous political decisions. Drawing on a quarter century of experience at the intersection of moral argument and public policy, he describes rigorously and clearly the threat posed by global jihadism and points a new direction for both public policy and interreligious dialogue, one that meets the challenge of jihadism forthrightly while creating the conditions for a less threatening, more mutually enriching encounter between Islam and the West.
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EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman recounts the history of honor, noting that it is inseparable from the history of mankind. While honor has been disregarded or actively despised for three quarters of a century in the West, it is still essential to an understanding of the Islamic cultures of the Middle East and the sense of grievance they often foster against the West, and especially the United States. [ More information] [ Purchase] EPPC Fellow Christine Rosen writes a warm and affectionate memoir of her days as a school girl in a fundamentalist Christian school in St. Petersburg, Florida where "the Bible was our textbook," God the guide, and after entering the school gates, nothing was ever quite the same again.
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| May 2009 |
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Faith Angle Conference
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.
 Obama's Favorite Theologian? A Short Course on Reinhold Niebuhr -- Wilfred McClay, a historian specializing in American intellectual history, offered an overview of Niebuhr's unique form of progressive Christianity and addressed ongoing debates about the influence of Niebuhr's work on 20th-century American politics and international affairs. Religion and Science: Conflict or Harmony? -- Francis S. Collins, the former director of the Human Genome Project, discussed why he believes religion and science are compatible and why the current conflict over evolution vs. faith, particularly in the evangelical community, is unnecessary. The Political Obligations of Catholics -- the Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, archbishop of Denver and author of Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life (2008), argues that Catholics should take an active, vocal and morally consistent role in public debates, particularly on issues such as abortion, the death penalty and other matters they consider central to social justice.
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