{"id":367,"date":"2018-08-06T17:29:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/?p=367"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:04:50","slug":"book-religion-and-politics-in-america-faith-culture-and-strategic-choices-6th-edition-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/book-religion-and-politics-in-america-faith-culture-and-strategic-choices-6th-edition-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Book:  Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices, 6th Edition (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=apsa_section11\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/412298LsayL._SX330_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"271\" \/><strong>Authors:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ou.edu\/cas\/psc\/faculty\/hertzke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allen D. Hertzke<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clemson.edu\/cbshs\/faculty-staff\/profiles\/LAURAO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laura R. Olson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/calvin.edu\/directory\/people\/kevin-r-den-dulk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin R. den Dulk<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/polisci.wisc.edu\/content\/robert-booth-fowler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Booth Fowler<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Religion and politics are never far from the headlines, but their relationship remains complex and often confusing. This book offers an engaging, accessible, and balanced treatment of religion in American politics. It explores the historical, cultural, and legal contexts that motivate religious political engagement and assesses the pragmatic and strategic political realities that religious organizations and people face. Incorporating the best and most current scholarship, the authors examine the evolving politics of Roman Catholics; evangelical and mainline Protestants; African-American and Latino traditions; Jews, Muslims, and other religious minorities; recent immigrants and religious &#8220;nones&#8221;; and other conventional and not-so-conventional American religious movements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">New to the Sixth Edition<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2022 Covers the 2016 election and assesses the role of religion from Obama to Trump.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2022 Expands substantially on religion\u2019s relationship to gender and sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class, and features the role of social media in religious mobilization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2022 Adds discussion questions at the end of every chapter, to help students gain deeper understanding of the subject.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2022 Adds a new concluding chapter on the normative issues raised by religious political engagement, to stimulate lively discussions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Religion-Politics-America-Culture-Strategic\/dp\/1138596159\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amazon<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 | \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/religion-and-politics-in-america-allen-d-hertzke\/1126093015?ean=9781138596153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Allen D. Hertzke, Laura R. Olson, Kevin R. den Dulk, and Robert Booth Fowler Religion and politics are never far from the headlines, but their relationship remains complex and often confusing. This book offers an engaging, accessible, and balanced treatment of religion in American politics. It explores the historical, cultural, and legal contexts that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}