Great stuff at the Midwest conference for R&P scholars – be there!

Hello Iza:

I'm a member of the R&P organized section with APSA and I'll be attending the Midwest this weekend. I have assembled what I think it an interesting panel/roundtable on the impact of religion in the 2012 elections.

I was hoping maybe to publicize our roundtable, which features data used by the Public Religion Research Institute as well as the president of PRRI, to folks in the religion and politics world in hopes of boosting audience participation. Is there a list serv of some sort that I could have access to do to this?

Thanks!

Melissa

Dr. Melissa Deckman
Chair and Professor of Political Science
Louis L. Goldstein Professor of Public Affairs
Washington College

In the APSA Journals (March/April 2012)

Islam and Exceptionalism in American Political Discourse
Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States. Edited by Kees van Kersbergen and Philip Manow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 318p. $93.00 cloth, $27.99 paper.

Political Scientists – Talk to Reporters!

As part of its program to connect the media with political scientists, APSA is compiling a list of individuals willing to talk to reporters about their research. Most immediately, we seek experts on issues such as immigration policy; voting rights; gay rights and same-sex marriage; campaign finance; Iran’s nuclear program and US foreign policy; and budget, tax and other economic policy. While the media may be interested primarily in experts who can speak directly to these issues, we often get requests for political scientists who can speak about issues from different perspectives. If you have expertise that speaks to these topics and would like to be added to the list, please contact Jennifer Diascro, Director of Institutional Programs at APSA (press@apsanet.org).

Section Journal – First View

Religion,
Rational Political Theory, and the 2008 Presidential Election

Jungyun Gill, James DeFronzo
Politics and
Religion / FirstView article(s)
doi: 10.1017/S1755048312000673 (About doi) Published Online on 05th March 2013
[
abstract ]

Self-stereotyping
as “Evangelical Republican”: An Empirical Test

Stratos Patrikios
Politics and
Religion / FirstView article(s)
doi: 10.1017/S1755048313000023 (About doi) Published Online on 05th March 2013
[
abstract ]

How
to Cite a Sacred Text

Ron E. Hassner
Politics and
Religion / FirstView article(s)
doi: 10.1017/S1755048313000035 (About doi) Published Online on 05th March 2013
[ abstract ]

APSA Africa Workshop 2013 – Call for Applications

This
year, Kenneth Wald will be serving as co-leader for a 2-week political
science workshop in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on the topic of “Religion
and Politics in Comparative Perspective.” APSA is now soliciting
applications from early-career scholars based at African universities or
research institutes, as well as US PhD candidates who are interested in
taking part. 

Note
that this year’s program will be a dual-language event and that we are
soliciting applications from both French and English speaking scholars.
As such, I’ve attached a PDF version of our Call for Applications in
both French and English.

Download 2013 Call for Applications – English | 
Download 2013 Call for Applications – French

Additional information and application instructions are also available online here. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2013.