Religion, Race, and Barack Obama's New Democratic Pluralism

ISBN-13: 9780415633765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 296 str.

Gast N. Espinosa

Opis

This edited volume demonstrates how Obama charted a new course for Democrats by staking out claims among moderate-conservative faith communities and emerged victorious in the presidential contest, in part, by promoting a new Democratic racial-ethnic and religious pluralism.

Spis treści

Preface. 1 – Religion, Politics, and American Society, Gastón Espinosa 2 – Mainline Protestants and the 2008 Election, Laura R. Olson, Adam L. Warber, Kevin R. den Dulk 3 – Evangelicals and the 2008 Election, Corwin Smidt 4. Catholics and the 2008 Election, David C. Leege and Stephen T. Mockabee 5 – Jews and the 2008 Election, Kenneth Wald 6 – Muslims and the 2008 Election, Brian Calfano, Paul A. Djupe, John C. Green 7 – Seculars and the 2008 Election, Lyman Kellstedt and James L. Guth 8 – Women, Religion, and the 2008 Election, Katherine Knutson 9 – African Americans, Religion, and the 2008 Election, Valerie Cooper and Corwin Smidt 10 – Latinos, Religion, and the 2008 Election, Gastón Espinosa 11 – Asian Americans, Religion, and the 2008 Election, So Young Kim and Russell Jeung 12. Conclusion, Gastón Espinosa

O autorze

Gastón Espinosa is the Arthur V. Stoughton associate professor of religious studies at Claremont McKenna College and co-editor of the Columbia University Press Series in Religion and Politics. He served as research director of the Pew Charitable Trusts-funded Hispanic Churches in American Public Life research and Latino Religions and Politics national survey. His books include Religion, Race, and the American Presidency (2008), Religion and the American Presidency: George Washington to George W. Bush with Commentary and Sources (2009), and Latino Religions and Politics in American Public Life (forthcoming).