Smith, Gary Scott, Religion in the Oval Office: The Religious Lives of American Presidents (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). A broad historical examination that uses select presidents' own words, religious participation, ...
Besides Bruce Wilkinson's Prayer ofJabez and Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life, nonfiction best sellers in 2001 and 2003, many lines of Christian fiction are now available. Every bookstore, no matter how small, has plenty of fiction, ...
2 (New York: Harper, 1950), 275–285. For a brief and engaging discussion of Mormon experience in Utah in the mid–nineteenth century, see David Roberts, “The Brink of War,” Smithsonian Magazine, June 2008. [19] Pierce v.
MICHAEL BARONE: What about seculars, the second-largest group? JOHN GREEN: They seem to be edging up as well. Again, we're not talking about huge changes here. Of course, the Hispanic population continues to grow.
On the symbolic use of religion in politics, see Christopher B. Chapp, Religious Rhetoric and American Politics: The Endurance of Civil Religion in Electoral Campaigns (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012); Colleen J. Shogan, ...
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Emphasizes how and why political and religious actors choose to participate in the interplay, in the voting booth, Congress, state legislatures, the presidency, the courts, interest groups, and the larger culture.
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Incorporating up-to-date scholarship and analysis of voting behavior through the 2008 elections, the fourth edition assesses the politics of conventional and not-so-conventional American religious movements.
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