Description:
Employing a sizeable collection of data on party members, activists, and elites, Geoffrey Layman examines the role of religion in the Democratic and Republican parties, and the ways in which religion has influenced the political process from the early 1960s through the late 1990s.
Review Quotes: Layman's impressive effort is at this point the authoritative source on religion and contemporary party politics.... An excellent account... which will be indispenable as religion continues to command the attention of political scientists.-- "American Politics"