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The biggest religion stories of 2011 involved tensions over Islam and questions about faith in presidential politics, especially Mormonism<\/a>, according to an annual review of religion in the news by the Pew Research Center\u2019s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) and the Pew Research Center\u2019s Forum on Religion & Public Life.<\/p>\n

Events and controversies related to Islam also dominated U.S. press coverage of religion in 2010. However, coverage of some stories faded in the past year, notably coverage of the sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church, which received much more media attention in 2010.<\/p>\n

Compared with topics such as politics and the economy, religion does not typically receive a lot of attention from the mainstream news media, and 2011 was no exception. When religion did make news, it was often because of accusations about extremism or intolerance. For instance, among the biggest individual stories of 2011 were a controversial congressional hearing about the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism and the fallout after a Florida pastor staged a Koran burning. And one of the top religion and politics stories of the year centered on an incident in which a Texas minister called the Mormon faith<\/a> a \u201ccult.\u201d
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