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After Iowa: Ralph Reed on the evangelical vote

By Matthew Baldwin on January 5, 2012

Ralph Reed opines on what the media doesn’t understand about evangelical voters: “Consider this: 61% of self-identified evangelicals who attended a caucus Tuesday night in Iowa voted for a candidate who is either Roman Catholic (Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum) or Mormon (Mitt Romney, who won the caucuses, besting Santorum by eight votes ). “Here’s [...]

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After Life in Roman Paganism (Cumont, 1922)

By Matthew Baldwin on August 14, 2009

A few days ago I finished reading After Life in Roman Paganism by legendary French historian of religion Franz Cumont. The book publishes lectures originally delivered in English at Yale University in 1921. My copy, a Dover Publications paperback edition from 1959, originally cost $1.35, was designed to last for a long time in a [...]

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