In this book, a team of well-regarded scholars digs deeper to examine the role religion played in the 2008 campaign. They take a long view, placing the election in historical context and looking at the campaign as a whole, from the primaries through all the way through election day. At the heart of their analysis is data gleaned from a national survey conducted by the authors, in which voters were interviewed in the spring of 2008 and then re-interviewed after the election.

CS: Executive Director of the Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics, Calvin College; KdD: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, and Faculty Fellow, Honors College, Grand Valley State University; DK: Professor of Political Science and Interim Director of the Center forSocial Research, Calvin College; SM: Research Fellow, Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics,Calvin College and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Pepperdine University; JP: Professor of Political Science, Calvin College

• 1.: Introduction


• 2.: Religion and Presidential Campaigns in Perspective


• 3.: Religion and the Political Landscape in 2008


• 4.: Religion and the 2008 Presidential Primaries


• 5.: Religion and the Summer Interlude


• 6.: Religion and the Fall Campaign


• 7.: Religion and Election Day: Voter Mobilization in 2008


• 8.: Religion and Election Day: Voting Patterns


• 9.: The God Gap Revisited


• Tables


• References


• Index