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.

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.

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 ConservativePolitical 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