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- ISBN 9780813350578
- Weight: 576g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Aug 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Allen D. Hertzke is presidential professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of Freeing God's Children, The Future of Religious Freedom, Religious Freedom in America, and Christianity and Freedom, Volumes I & II.
Laura R. Olson is professor of political science at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. She is author, coauthor, or coeditor of nine books, including Beyond Red States and Blue State, Religious Interests in Community Conflict and Christian Clergy in American Politics.
Kevin R. den Dulk is associate professor of political science and Honors Faculty Fellow at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. He is coauthor of Pews, Prayers, and Participation and The God Gap? and The Challenge of Pluralism, 3rd edition, and coeditor of Mediating Religion and Government.
Robert Booth Fowler is professor of political science (emeritus) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. An award-winning teacher, he is the author of numerous books, including Enduring Liberalism: American Political Thought since the 1960s, The Dance with Community, and Unconventional Partners.
