Religion and Politics in the United States - 8th Edition by Kenneth D Wald & Allison Calhoun-Brown (Hardcover)

About the Book

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 cruc...

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

I look forward to each new edition of this text. I have long recommended it to undergraduate and graduate students, and to colleagues who want to better understand the relationship between religion and politics in the United States. Now a classic has gotten even better, with expanded coverage of religion and gender politics, and the politics of sexual diversity. I recommend this highly to political scientists, sociologists, historians, and anyone interested in the myriad ways that politics and religion influence one another.

Long the standard by which other volumes on religion and politics are measured, this new edition continues to provide not only up-to-date coverage but an excellent breadth and depth of such coverage as well.

This is a strong, accessible textbook for upper division religion and politics courses. The book may be used as a stand-alone text and complements supplementary material well including magazine articles, religious group websites and U.S. Supreme Court opinions.

About the Author

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.

Allison Calhoun-Brown is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Vice President of Student Success at Georgia State University.