Religious Identity in US Politics
  • 2019/190 pages

Religious Identity in US Politics

Matthew R. Miles
Hardcover: $28.00
ISBN: 978-1-62637-809-4
Ebook: $28.00
ISBN: 978-1-962551-91-5
While existing scholarship addresses the influence of religious affiliation on political attitudes and behaviors in the United States, a number of puzzling questions remain unanswered. In response, Matthew Miles demonstrates that a more complete conceptualization of religion as a social identity can help to explain many of those puzzles. As he explores the impact, both positive and negative, of religious identity on political attitudes, he also shows that the religion-politics relationship is not a one-way street.
Matthew R. Miles is professor of political science at Brigham Young University–Idaho.