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Frederick Clarkson

Senior Research Analyst

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Frederick Clarkson is a Senior Research Analyst at PRA and has written about politics and religion for more than four decades. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications from Mother Jones, Church & State, and Ms. Magazine to The Christian Science Monitor, Salon.com, and Religion Dispatches. He is the author of Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between In the classical definition, a system in which governmental leaders are clergy. Learn more and Democracy, and editor of Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America. He has worked as an investigative editor at Planned Parenthood Federation of America; as Communications Director at the Institute for Democracy Studies; and co-founded the group blog, Talk to Action. 

Articles

Public Eye
Why the Christian Right Distorts History and Why it Matters
The Christian Right believes that America was founded as a Christian nation and must remain a Christian nation, write the Christian Right in their revisionist histories, as a means to further their dominionist agenda agenda.
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Public Eye
“Make no mistake,” wrote Avery Post, the national president of the United Church of Christ in 1982, “the objectives of the Institute on Religion and Democracy are the exact opposite of what its name appears to stand for.”
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Public Eye
Remaking America as a Christian Nation
What are “hard” and “soft” dominionism and where do we see it in mainstream politics?
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