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Beth Sholom, Jenkintown, PA: synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

image from Natl Museum of Am Jewish Hist (hardly as distinguished, I found just by luck at the same site an image of the Lynn building of Temple Beth El; this is where the congregation was located when my family joined on our move to Swampscott, but then Beth El built a new temple there)

I try to organize these materials in a sensible way but it is difficult unless I do a serious job of cross-referencing (which I'm not paid well enough to do).  So look around the page and you might find something of interest.  Remember, also, the "good and not-so-good news" page.

On religion & politics generally

• Mark Lilla, "The politics of God," New York Times magazine 19 Aug 07:  Drawn from his book to be published soon, The Stillborn God, Lilla locates beliefs about the place of religion in politics in the contending philosophies of Hobbes and Rousseau; doesn't do much for me

Major surveys

• U.S. religious landscape survey: 2008, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

Micro-stuff

• crossnational data on the importance of religion (WVS also has many other indicators of religiosity)

F. David Levenbach, fidel@astate.edu, http://www.clt.astate.edu/fidel; personal http://www.geocities.com/aka_fidel

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