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American Quarterly
Special Issue
September 2007

Preface
Curtis Marez

Introduction: Is the Public Square Still Naked?
R. Marie Griffith and Melani McAlister

Engaging State Power
“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 McGreevy

Politics of the Global
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 Hicks

From Exodus to Exile: Black Pentecostals, Migrating Pilgrims, and Imagined Internationlism
Clarence E. Hardy III

Who Speaks for Indian Americans? Religion, Ethnicity, and Political Formation
Prema Kurien

Leaders and Activists
Benjamin Mays, Global Ecumenism, and Local Religious Segregation
Barbara Dianne Savage

Impossible Assimilations, American Liberalism, and Jewish Difference: Revisiting Jewish Secularism
Laura Levitt

An 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: Remapping the New Spiritual Line
Luis León

Ties That Bind and Divisions That Persist: Evangelical Faith and the Political Spectrum
D. Michael Lindsay

Media and Performance
“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

Contributors

Cover design by Bill Longhauser.
Front cover: Soldiers pray before heading out on a convoy. U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Tom Crosson. Air Force link, http://www.af.mil/photos/media_search.asp?q=prayer&page=2.
Back cover: Post-Katrina Memorial Day prayer service, Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans. Photo by Mario Tama, Getty Images.