Religion and politics in the contemporary United States / edited by R. Marie Griffith and Melani McAlister.

"Special issue of American quarterly" -- Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Is the public square still naked? / R. Marie Griffith and Melani McAlister -- "Favoritism cannot be tolerated": challenging Protestantism in America's public schools and promoting the neutral state / Kevin M. Schultz -- Selling American diversity and Muslim American identity through nonprofit advertising post-9/11 / Evelyn Alsultany -- "The ERA is a moral issue": the Mormon Church, LDS women, and the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment / Neil J. Young -- Hot damned America: evangelicalism and the climate change policy debate / Brian McCammack -- Catholics, Democrats, and the GOP in contemporary America / John T. McGreevy -- Islamism and its African American Muslim critics: Black Muslims in the era of the Arab cold war / Edward E. Curtis IV -- "As Americans against genocide": the crisis in Darfur and interreligious political activism / Jodi Eichler-Levine and Rosemary R. Hicks -- From exodus to exile: Black Pentecostals, migrating pilgrims, and imagined internationalism / Clarence E. Hardy III -- Who speaks for Indian Americans? Religion, ethnicity, and political formation / Prema Kurien -- Benjamin Mays, global ecumenism, and local religious segregation / Barbara Dianne Savage -- Impossible assimilations, American liberalism, and Jewish difference: revisiting Jewish secularism / Laura Levitt -- Exception to exceptionalism: a reflection on Reinhold Niebuhr's vision of "prophetic" Christianity and the problem of religion and U.S. foreign policy / Michael G. Thompson -- Cesar Chavez in American religious politics: mapping the new global spiritual line / Luis D. León -- Ties that bind and divisions that persist: evangelical faith and the political spectrum / D. Michael Lindsay -- "Signaling through the flames": hell house performance and structures of religious feeling / Ann Pellegrini -- Critical faith: Japanese Americans and the birth of a new civil religion / Jane Naomi Iwamura -- Back to the future: religion, politics, and the media / Diane Winston -- Testimonial politics: the Christian right's faith-based approach to marriage and imprisonment / Tanya Erzen -- "It will change the world if everybody reads this book": new thought religion in Oprah's book club / Trysh Travis..