Publishes a chart of the various bills through which abstinence-only sex education is funded nationally and in the states.

This book on post-9/11 American civil religion follows authors Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence’ previous book, The Myth of the American Superhero.

J. Matthew Wilson is an associate professor of political science at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. His interests include religion and politics, and voting behavior of religious voters.

Kenneth Brander is a rabbi and a professor at Yeshiva University in New York City. He is an expert on Jewish thinking and end-of-life issues, cloning and stem-cell research.

Co-author of This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor (2007). Contact through the book’s publisher, Public Affairs.

Bristol Palin is perhaps America’s most famous teen mom. She became a “teen-abstinence ambassador” in 2009 for the Candie’s Foundation, and she appeared in a People magazine cover story in which she confided that a teen mom’s job is hard work.

Ann Stone is the head of Republicans for Choice in Alexandria, Va., which says its aim is to remove politics from the abortion debate.

Gerard Heather is a political science professor at San Francisco State University and an expert on religion and politics.

Steven J. Zipperstein is a professor in Jewish culture and history at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. He is co-editor of a series of books titled Jewish Lives from Yale University Press. His research areas include modern Jewish history, and he teaches a course on Jews in the modern world.