Charles W. Dunn is Distinguished Professor of Government at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va. He edited The Future of Religion in American Politics (2009).

Susan B. Hansen is a political science professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Religion and Reaction: The Secular Political Challenge to the Religious Right (2011).

Watch a 2007 Boston Globe video about Romney’s Mormonism.

Read an article from the spring 2011 issue of the scholarly journal Religion in the News about how religious practices predict political beliefs.

Read an Aug. 17, 2011, Washington Post blog post about how religion can be used to predict Tea Partiers.

Read an Aug. 22, 2011, Religion News Service story (posted by the Huffington Post) about a disconnect between current trends on religiosity in the U.S. and the injection of religion into politics.

Read an Oct. 21, 2011, column in The Wall Street Journal on Romney’s Mormonism and the 2012 election. It’s by Robert Putnam and David Campbell, co-authors of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us.

Read a Nov. 8, 2011, post on Time’s Swampland blog on the presidential preferences of different religious groups.

Read the Nov. 14, 2011, transcript of an Ethics and Public Policy Center discussion of Mormonism and politics.