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Faith in the New Millennium Faith in the New Millennium The Future of Religion and American Politics z Edited by MATTHEW AVERY SUTTON AND DARREN DOCHUK 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America © Oxford University Press 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. “Questionnaire,” copyright © 2010 by Wendell Berry, from Leavings. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint. Lines from “National Brotherhood Week” from That Was the Year That Was, © 1964 Tom Lehrer, reprinted by permission of Tom Lehrer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Faith in the new millennium: the future of religion and American politics / edited by Matthew Avery Sutton and Darren Dochuk. pages cm ISBN 978–0–19–937270–6 (pbk.: alk. paper)—ISBN 978–0–19–937269–0 (hardback: alk. paper) 1. Religion and politics—United States—History—21st century. 2. United States— Politics and government—21st century. 3. Obama, Barack—Political and social views. 4. Obama, Barack—Religion. I. Sutton, Matthew Avery, II. Dochuk, Darren. BL2525.F343 2016 322′.10973—dc23 2015005460 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper To Paul Harvey, Amanda Porterfield, and Philip Goff Contents Acknowledgments ix List of Contributors xi Introduction 1 I. Politics 1. The Founding Fathers in Modern America—Kate Carté engel 7 2. Slavery and Religion in (Not Just) a Christian Nation—edward J. Blum 25 3. Religion and the “Outsider” Candidates—Charles F. Irons 43 4. African American Religious Conservatives in the New Millennium—anthea Butler 59 5. Barack Hussein Obama: America’s First Muslim President?—reBeCCa anne goetz 74 II. Policy 6. From Drone War to Indian War: Protecting (and Liberating) Innocent Women and Children—JennIFer graBer 91 7. Crude Awakenings in the Age of Oil—darren doChuK 110 viii Contents 8. The Welfare of Faith—alIson CollIs greene 132 9. Latino/a Religious Communities and Immigration in Modern America—arlene sánChez-walsh 150 10. Teaching About Religion in Red-state America—marK a. ChanCey 163 11. America’s World Mission in the Age of Obama—andrew Preston 180 III. Religion 12. Between Hope and Despair: Obama and Evangelical Politics—steven P. mIller 199 13. Secrets and the Making of Mormon Moments—J. sPenCer Fluhman 217 14. Preparing for Doomsday—matthew avery sutton 234 15. Rise of the Nones—matthew s. hedstrom 250 16. The Blessings of American Pluralism, and Those Who Rail Against It—KevIn m. sChultz 269 Afterword—amanda PorterFIeld 286 Index 295 Acknowledgments the Idea For this book was conceived by Amanda Porterfield and Edward J. Blum, who hoped to continue work begun in 2007 by that year’s class of Young Scholars in American Religion. The project evolved from there. The editors gratefully acknowledge the many people and insti- tutes that made this project possible. Philip Goff and the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis provided support with funding from the Lilly Endowment for a group of early career scholars to begin thinking about how their research on religion intersected across space and time. In 2012, many of those scholars, joined by a handful of others, met at the cam- pus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) to share drafts of the essays that appear here. SMU’s Center for Presidential History and especially its director Jeffrey A. Engel were excellent hosts and provided substantial support. The conference also received significant support from the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis and its director R. Marie Griffith. At Oxford University Press, we are grateful to Theo Calderara, Gina Chung, and their team for their countless contributions to this volume. Finally, we dedicate this book to Paul Harvey, Amanda Porterfield, and Philip Goff, who trained a genera- tion of Young Scholars in American Religion to see the relevance of their research for the modern world.