Contents
About the Authors
Introduction \ Steven Brint and Jean Reith Schroedel
Part I. Evangelicals’ Identity and Activism
Chapter 1. The Cultural Capital of American Evangelicalism \ Robert Wuthnow
Chapter 2. American Evangelicals in American Culture: Continuity and Change \ Nancy T. Ammerman
Chapter 3. Conservative Protestantism in the United States? Toward a Comparative and Historical Perspective \ Philip S. Gorski
Part II. Evangelicals and Intergroup Relations
Chapter 4. Exploring the Traditionalist Alliance: Evangelical Protestants, Religious Voters, and the Republican Presidential Vote \ John C. Green
Chapter 5. Evangelical Strength and the Political Representation of Women and Gays \ Jennifer Merolla, Jean Reith Schroedel, and Scott Waller
Chapter 6. Race-Bridging for Christ? Conservative Christians and Black-White Relations in Community Life \ Paul Lichterman, Prudence L. Carter, and Michèle Lamont
Chapter 7. Where Is the Counterweight? Explorations of the Decline in Mainline Protestant Participation in Public Debates over Values \ John H. Evans
Part III. Religious Conservatives and America’s Social Institutions
Chapter 8. How Focused on the Family? Evangelical Protestants, the Family, and Sexuality \ W. Bradford Wilcox
Chapter 9. Conservative Protestants, Schooling, and Democracy \ David Sikkink
Chapter 10. Hollywood and Jerusalem: Christian Conservatives and the Media \ Gabriel Rossman
Chapter 11. An Almost-Christian Nation? Constitutional Consequences of the Rise of the Religious Right \ Rogers M. Smith
Index