What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God: Religious Communication in Democratic Party Politics
Koopman, Douglas L., Journal of Church and State
What Democrats Talk About When They Talk About God: Religious Communication in Democratic Party Politics. Edited by David Weiss. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010. 221pp. $29.95 paper.
The interaction between reUgion and poUtics Ui the United States is fascinating and frustrating, as the first sentence of this edited volume by a group of young communications scholars asserts. There are many books about religious rhetoric by politicians past and present, but What Democrats Talk About When They Talk About God fills a clear niche by focusing exclusively on Democrats. It begins by reviewing what the party's patron saint, Thomas Jefferson, said and thought about the issue. Jefferson's …
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Publication information:
Article title: What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God: Religious Communication in Democratic Party Politics.
Contributors: Koopman, Douglas L. - Author.
Journal title: Journal of Church and State.
Volume: 53.
Issue: 2
Publication date: Spring 2011.
Page number: 329+.
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