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From pews to polling places : faith and politics in the American religious mosaic

Does religion promote political mobilization? Are individuals motivated by their faith to focus on issues of social justice, personal morality, or both? What is the relationship between religious conviction and partisanship? Does religious identity reinforce or undermine other political identifications like race, ethnicity, and class? The answers to these questions are hardly monolithic, varying between and within major American religious groups. With an electoral climate increasingly shaped by issues of faith, values, and competing moral visions, it is both fascinating and essential to examin
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Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., ©2007
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Whither the religious left? : religiopolitical progressivism in twenty-first-century America / Laura R. Olson
The political behavior of American Catholics : change and continuity / Stephen T. Mockabee
Dry kindling : a political profile of American Mormons / David E. Campbell and J. Quin Monson
From liberation to mutual fund : political consequences of differing conceptions of Christ in the African American church / Melissa Harris-Lacewell
Power in the pews? religious diversity and Latino political attitudes and behaviors / Louis DeSipio
The evolution of Jewish pluralism : the public opinion and political preferences of American Jews / Paul A. Djupe
The politics of American Muslims / Paul A. Djupe and John C. Green
Secularists, antifundamentalists, and the new religious divide in the American electorate / Louis Bolce and Gerald De Maio
Religion and American political life : a look forward / J. Matthew Wilson
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