From marriage equality, to gun control, to immigration reform and the threat of war, religion
plays a fascinating and crucial part in our nation's political process and in our culture at …

this book focuses on religion and politics and the dynamic interactions between them. It
helps to understand the politics of religion in the United States and to appreciate the …

The First Amendment of the US Constitution forbids the creation of an official state church,
and we hear the phrase" separation of church and state" so frequently that it may surprise us …

The rise of the Religious Right is one of the most important political and cultural stories of
our time. To many, this controversial movement threatens to upset the nation's delicate …

This volume offers a timely and dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics,
examining the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years. The …

This text addresses whether and how religion and religious institutions affect American
politics. For some time, analysts have argued that the conflicts of the New Deal era rendered …

Homelessness, black neighborhood development, problems of abortion and sex education--
how does religion affect the politics of an American city confronting these and other …

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of
Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of American politics …

Religion is, and has always been, a powerful force in American politics. Over the past three
decades, the study of religion and politics has gone from being ignored by the scholarly …

How did the Christian Right come to predominate in the Republican Party? Why, on the
other hand, do secular and religiously liberal beliefs largely prevail in the Democratic Party …