Religion and Politics in the United States

Religion and Politics in the United States has been fully updated with material from current scholarship to cover recent American politics and elections. Using an evidenced-based, social-scientific approach to religion, this text shows how religion plays a fascinating and crucial part in our nation's political process and in our culture at large.

List of contents

1. A Secular Society?
2. Religion in the American Context
3. Religion and American Political Culture
4. Religion and the State
5. Mobilizing Religious Interests
6. Religion and Political Action
7. Religion and Public Opinion
8. Religion and Conservative Political Mobilization
9. Religion and Centrist Political Mobilization
10. Religion and Liberal Political Mobilization
11. The Struggle for Minority Rights: Gender and Sexuality
12. Religion and American Political Life

About the author

Kenneth D. Wald is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Samuel R. "Bud" Shorstein Professor Emeritus of American Jewish Culture & Society at the University of Florida.

Allison Calhoun-Brown is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Vice President of Student Success at Georgia State University.

Summary

Religion and Politics in the United States has been fully updated with material from current scholarship to cover recent American politics and elections. Using an evidenced-based, social-scientific approach to religion, this text shows how religion plays a fascinating and crucial part in our nation's political process and in our culture at large.

Foreword

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Additional text

Quirky . . . fascinating . . . she may not have written the novel of her dreams, but the book she has produced will resonate with anyone who has shared her ambitions [to write].

Product details

• Authors: Allison Calhoun-Brown, Calhoun-Brown Allison, Kenneth D. Wald, Kenneth D. Calhoun-Brown Wald, Wald Kenneth D.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781538105122
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0512-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Religion & politics, United States of America, USA, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Religion and Politics, Religious & theocratic ideologies, politics & state;religion;Religions in America