RISKS OF RELIGIOUS RHETORIC IN POLITICS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 11, 2006 ;     562 words ......is called the Pharisee Effect and is based...politicians who make religious appeals, say study authors...candidate's use of religious appeals goes too far...wrote." The Pharisee Effect has destroyed...suffer from the Pharisee Effect. He currently...examine ...

PALIN, RELIGION, 2008 ELECTION

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 9, 2008 ;     310 words ......race has energized the religious right within the Republican...move away from overt religious appeals may be due to an effort...what Powell calls the "Pharisee Effect." The Pharisee Effect is a phenomenon when religious appeals in politics go too far...by voters. ...

FRAUD ALERT.(NEWS)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  July 3, 1997 ;     56 words ......Department of Commerce's Securities Division is warning church members to be on guard for investment swindlers who make religious appeals. Promoters tell investors that they know exactly where to drill for oil in Israel because of certain passages in the Old...

Campaigning Religiously

The Washington Post;  November 14, 2007 ;     197 words ......religious political party and one secular party amazed me. Both the Democrats and Republicans running for president have made religious appeals a larger part of their political strategies than ever before. The campaigns of Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary...

(book review)

Presidential Studies Quarterly;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......unimportant in Lincoln's life or suggest that Lincoln used religious appeals merely for utilitarian purposes. The real value of Motel...case of Lincoln's devotion. Lincoln saw utility in using religious appeals in politics but also understood the importance of cultivating...

VOA NEWS: LIBERALS COMPETE WITH CONSERVATIVES FOR RELIGIOUS U.S. VOTERS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ......congressional elections. But some liberal groups also hope to use religious appeals to mobilize voters on Election Day. Since the 1980s, Republicans...will take a while to measure the effectiveness of liberal religious appeals, there are already signs that conservative Christian voters...

Common ground and common skies: natural law and ecological responsibility.

Journal of Ecumenical Studies;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......from ecological irresponsibility. The search for common ground is needed both to check the propensity of groups to employ religious appeals to promote intolerance, hatred, and violence and to empower an internationally broad and serious effort to protect Earth...

Campaigns Accent Religion

Albuquerque Journal;  October 30, 2004 ;     507 words ...Parties Say Voters Looking for Values LAS CRUCES -- If New Mexico voters are feeling whipsawed by religious appeals from Republican and Democratic campaigns this election cycle, it's because they are. In discussing the overthrow of two repressive...

Alabama voters reject religious right candidates but ban gay marriages

AP Worldstream;  June 7, 2006 ;     417 words ......Supreme Court candidates aligned with Moore were turned back by equally wide margins. Moore and his slate got hit with "the Pharisee effect," said pollster Larry Powell, referring to Jesus' rebuke of religious leaders called Pharisees who used public prayers to...

Ala. Voters Endorse Ban on Gay Marriage

AP Online;  June 7, 2006 ;     466 words ......Supreme Court candidates aligned with Moore were turned back by equally wide margins. Moore and his slate got hit with "the Pharisee effect," said pollster Larry Powell, referring to Jesus' rebuke of religious leaders called Pharisees who used public prayers to...

Faith key to many voters' choices.

Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN);  December 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Matt Wilson Dec. 25--Religious appeals likely will play a major role in upcoming political races, especially in the wake of their prominence in the 2006 campaigns, analysts...

US Jewish groups alienating their target audience - pollster

Jerusalem Post;  May 9, 2003 ;     568 words ......his clients, urges organizations to adopt a series of advertising techniques that range from using visuals and scrapping religious appeals to displaying Web addresses. The report was funded with a grant from the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies. The...

Don't count conservatives out of the political scene|Poll says religious...

Herald News, The (Joliet, IL);  November 16, 2006 ;     667 words ......with Washington's Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, sees crosscurrents for Democrats. They learned this year that religious appeals and moderation on social issues help win elections. Yet the past three elections showed Democrats' increasing dependence...

CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS CAN'T BE COUNTED OUT.(News)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  November 15, 2006 ;     662 words ......with Washington's Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, sees crosscurrents for Democrats. They learned this year that religious appeals and moderation on social issues help win elections. Yet the past three elections showed Democrats' increasing dependence...

WITH PARTY POLITICS LEGAL AGAIN, NIGERIA GIRDS FOR RETURN TO DEMOCRACY

The Boston Globe;  May 5, 1989 ;     402 words ......Nigeria's deep tribal fissures. The two parties, yet undesignated, will not be allowed to woo voters through ethnic or religious appeals. Instead, the parties will need what is vaguely described as broad, national support to qualify. Babangida lifted the ban...