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.

Read a Dec. 15, 2011, Associated Press story (posted by Yahoo) about Romney opening up about his faith on the campaign trail.

Read a Dec. 17, 2011, New York Times story about the impact of Newt Gingrich’s religion on the 2012 campaign.

Read a Dec. 27, 2011, New York Times story about how Republican presidential hopefuls have injected religion more overtly than ever into their campaign ads.

Read a Jan. 3, 2012, Religion News Service story (posted by The Salt Lake Tribune) about the newly formed National Atheist Party.

Read the Secular Coalition for America’s scorecard on the 2012 presidential candidates; most fared poorly in the group’s judgment on matters of church-state separation, evolution and the like.