“Religious Vote Data Show Shifts In Obama’s Faith-Based Support”
Read a Nov. 7, 2012, article talking about how President Barack Obama did with white religious voters versus nonwhite religious voters.
Faith: Christianity
“Religion and Voters in 2012”
Read a Nov. 8, 2012, article from the American Spectator about how Catholic and evangelical voters supported the Republican candidate in the 2012 election.
“A Letter from the Director of the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion”
Read an essay by Melissa Harris Lacewell ( Harris-Perry)posted on the Martin Marty Center website about African-American religion and its relationship to politics and voting.
Stephanie Summers
Stephanie Summers is CEO of the Center for Public Justice, a Christian-based policy research center.
Amy Sullivan
Amy Sullivan is a contributing writer for TIME magazine and a former editor for Washington Monthly, where she wrote of the Democrats’ need to reclaim religion from the Republican Party. She is the author of The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats are Closing the God Gap (Scribner, 2008).
Corwin E. Smidt
Corwin E. Smidt is a research fellow at the Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics and a professor of political science at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. He is author, editor or co-author of books on religion and public life, including In God We Trust? Religion and American Political […]
Melissa Harris-Perry
Melissa Harris-Perry is a professor of political science at Tulane University in New Orleans, host of MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” and author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought (Princeton University Press, 2004).
Bruce David Forbes
Bruce David Forbes is a professor of religious studies at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, specializing in religion in America and religion and popular culture. He is co-editor of Rapture, Revelation and the End Times: Exploring the ‘Left Behind’ Series. Forbes also co-edited the book Religion and Popular Culture in America.
Russell Arben Fox
Russell Arben Fox is a political science professor at Friends University in Wichita, Ks. On In Medias Res, a blog of his writings, he has written that the Democratic Party has abandoned religious progressives. He has called for transformation of America’s political and party system.