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By Corwin Smidt, Kevin den Dulk, Bryan Froehle, James Penning, Stephen Monsma, Douglas Koopman

ISBN-10: 0199734704

ISBN-13: 9780199734702

ISBN-10: 0199734712

ISBN-13: 9780199734719

After the reelection of George W. Bush in 2004, the "God hole" turned a hotly debated political factor. non secular electorate have been obvious because the key to Bush's victory, and Democrats started scrambling to arrive out to them. 4 years later, notwithstanding, with the economic system in a tailspin on election day, faith slightly looked as if it would check in on people's radar monitors. during this booklet, a staff of well-regarded students digs deeper to check the function faith performed within the 2008 crusade. They take an extended view, putting the election in old context and searching on the crusade as a complete, from the primaries via all through election day. on the middle in their research is info gleaned from a countrywide survey carried out via the authors, within which citizens have been interviewed within the spring of 2008 after which re-interviewed after the election.

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Things got so bad that Republican candidate Herbert Hoover felt the need to distance himself from the religious critics, asserting that such Religion and Presidential Campaigns in Perspective 21 (anti-Catholic) sentiments “give violence to every instinct I possess” (Peel and Donnelly 1931, 63). However, the attempts of Hoover, the Smith campaign, and such groups as the Knights of Columbus proved unable to douse the anti-Catholic flames. Matters came to a head when the Atlantic published “An Open Letter to the Honorable Alfred E.

While many patterns emerge in these analyses of political culture, the United States often stands out as an exceptional case. Already in the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville, the astute French social observer and author of the classic Democracy in America, noted the key civic role of religion in the United States in contrast to Europe. Today, the United States continues to defy trends in many other democratic and economically developed societies, where religious belief and behavior have waned considerably over the past century (Pew Research Center 2002; Greeley 2003; Fowler et al.

These have played a crucial role in the development of American institutions and still provide a religious dimension for the whole fabric of American life, including the political sphere. It is important to note that Bellah made these observations in a landmark study of presidential rhetoric, which tends to be steeped in religious symbols. Presidents speak openly in religious terms because citizens themselves are accustomed to a role for religion in their own political thinking and in the political culture as a whole.

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