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The empirical study of religion and politics emerged as a strongly behavioral sub-discipline within political science within the late 20th Century. Particularly in the American context, scholars have placed tremendous emphasis on religion's influence on political attitudes and behaviors. As a result, we have a much better understanding of the potency of religion in shaping voting patterns, party affiliation, and views of public policy, among other behavioral aspects of American politics. In the context of a democracy, however, political institutions mediate the effect of religion on political attitudes and the policy process. In a Madisonian sense, institutions are at the fulcrum of mass politics and policy outputs. This volume investigates the influence of religion on and within political institutions. Each chapter provides a synthesis of the literature with respect to a particular institution and makes an original research contribution to the literature. By addressing the historical, contemporary, constitutional, and policy-based elements of religious interactions within politics, the volume creates a wide-ranging assessment of the sometimes contentious relationship between these two pillars of American culture.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Mediating Religion and Government
• Author: Kevin R. Den Dulk
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9781137394408
• ISBN: 1137394404
• ID: 04771734
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 222 × 139 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. November 2014

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