Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices

Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices

Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices

Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices

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Overview

Religion and politics are never far from the headlines, but their relationship remains complex and often confusing. This book offers an engaging, accessible, and balanced treatment of religion in American politics. It explores the historical, cultural, and legal contexts that motivate religious political engagement and assesses the pragmatic and strategic political realities that religious organizations and people face. Incorporating the best and most current scholarship, the authors examine the evolving politics of Roman Catholics; evangelical and mainline Protestants; African-American and Latino traditions; Jews, Muslims, and other religious minorities; recent immigrants and religious "nones"; and other conventional and not-so-conventional American religious movements.

New to the Sixth Edition

• Covers the 2016 election and assesses the role of religion from Obama to Trump.

• Expands substantially on religion’s relationship to gender and sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class, and features the role of social media in religious mobilization.

• Adds discussion questions at the end of every chapter, to help students gain deeper understanding of the subject.

• Adds a new concluding chapter on the normative issues raised by religious political engagement, to stimulate lively discussions.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813350578
Publisher: Westview Press
Publication date: 08/09/2018
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Allen D. Hertzke is David Ross Boyd Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma. He is author or editor of several books on religion and politics, most recently Religious Freedom in America and Christianity and Freedom, vols. I and II.

Laura R. Olson is Centennial Professor in the Department of Political Science at Clemson University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Kevin R. den Dulk is the Paul B. Henry Chair in Political Science and Director of the Henry Institute at Calvin College. He is the coauthor of The Disappearing God Gap? Religion in the 2008 Election and Pews, Prayers, and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility.

Robert Booth Fowler is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His published books include Enduring Liberalism: American Political Thought since the 1960s, The Dance with Community: The Contemporary Debate in American Political Thought, and Unconventional Partners: Religion and American Liberal Culture.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Religion and Political Culture in America: From the Historical Legacy to the Present Day

Chapter 2 Theories of Religion, Culture, and American Politics

Chapter 3 Christianity and Its Major Branches

Chapter 4 Judaism, Islam, and Other Expressions of Religious Pluralism

Chapter 5 Latino and African American Religion and Politics

Chapter 6 Gender, Sexual Orientation, Religion, and Politics

Chapter 7 Voting and Religion in American Politics

Chapter 8 The Politics of Organized Religious Groups

Chapter 9 Religion and Political and Cultural Elites

Chapter 10 Religion, Civil Society, and Political Culture

Chapter 11 The Politics of Religion in the Legal System

Chapter 12 Church and State in the Courts

Chapter 13 Big Themes and Normative Concerns in Religion and Politics

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