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978-0-7425-6321-6 • Hardback • September 2008 • $63.00 • (£48.00)
978-0-7425-6322-3 • Paperback • November 2010 • $46.00 • (£35.00)
978-0-7425-6348-3 • eBook • August 2008 • $43.50 • (£33.00)
Gaston Espinosa is the Arthur V. Stoughton Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He served as project manager of the $1.3 million Pew Charitable Trusts Hispanic Churches in American Public Life project and is the editor of several books on religion and politics.
Chapter 1: Evangelicals and the American Presidency
Corwin Smidt
Chapter 2: Mainline Protestants and the American Presidency
Laura R. Olsen and Adam L. Warber
Chapter 3: Catholics and the American Presidency
David C. Leege
Chapter 4: Seculars and the American Presidency
Lyman A. Kellstedt
Chapter 5: Women, Religion, and the American Presidency
Katherine E. Stenger
Chapter 6: Jews and the American Presidency
David G. Dalin
Chapter 7: Muslims and the American Presidency
Brian Robert Calfano, Paul A. Djupe, and John C. Green
Chapter 8: Asian Americans, Religion, and the American Presidency
So Young Kim
Chapter 9: African Americans, Religion, and the American Presidency
Melissa V. Harris-Lacewell
Chapter 10: Latinos, Religion, and the American Presidency
Gaston Espinosa
This is an important and timely study of the effects of race, religion, gender, and ethnic identity upon recent American presidential elections by a number of distinguished scholars in the field. Its analysis goes much deeper than mere numbers and percentages, and therefore illuminates significant cultural realities in contemporary American life....
— Garrett Ward Sheldon, Clinch Valley College, University of Virginia
Religion and race have proven to be contentious issues within U.S. presidential politics, and the contributors to this outstanding volume provide invaluable analysis on this subject that will be widely referenced for years to come.....
— R Drew Smith
This rich and excellent book throws a new light on the complex relationship between religion, race and the presidency. I plan to use it in my own classes.....
— Isabelle Richet
Adds a great deal to an understanding of how a variety of ethnicities and systems of belief affect U.S. politics. Recommended.....
— T. T. Gibson, Monmouth College
This groundbreaking book explores the critical intersection of religion, race, pluralism, and gender in American presidential politics. I highly recommend it to anyone in the U.S. or abroad seeking to understand the critical role that key voting constituencies play in U.S. politics....
— Kjell O. Lejon