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Medill Belief and Public Life

The Sacred Public Space

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Since its carving, Mount Rushmore has been viewed as a sacred monument, a testament to the mixing of faith and state. While no religion in particular is named, faith-based language pervades the site and often the visitors who pilgrimage to it.

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Students from Medill School at Northwestern University spent eight months examining the connection between belief and public life in the United States, a pursuit that carried them everywhere from tattoo parlors to much more traditional venues and yielded an abundance of revealing stories.

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