Religion in the Age of Obama (Paperback)

Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Faith in Public 1. Religion (and Race) Problems on the Way to the White House: An Analysis of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama's 'Faith' Speeches, Max Mueller (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) 2. Political Spirituality, or The Oprahfication of Obama, Kathryn Lofton (Yale University, USA) 3. A Muslim in the White House? Race, Islam, and the Presidency of Barack Obama, Sylvester A. Johnson (Virginia Tech, USA) 4. Towards a 'Culture of Mercy': Augustine, Pope Francis, and the Transformation of Moral Imagination, Melanie Webb (Villanova University, USA) Part Two: The Politics of Moral Vision 5. The Welfare of Faith, Alison Collis Greene (Mississippi State University, USA) 6. The Mystification of Capitalism and the Mis-direction of White Male Anger, Rebecca Todd Peters (Elon University, USA) 7. Costs of Corporate Conscience: How Women, Queers, and People of Color Are Paying for Hobby Lobby's Sincerely-Held Beliefs, Megan Goodwin (Northeastern University, USA) 8. Black Prophetic Discourse and Just War Theory in the Age of Obama, Juan Floyd-Thomas (Vanderbilt University, USA) Part Three: On Race/ing Belief 9. When White is the 'New Black': Religious Populism in the Age of Obama, Keri Day (Princeton Theological Seminary, USA) 10. In the Wake of Obama's Hope: Thoughts on Black Lives Matter, Moralism, and Re-Imagining Race Struggle, Anthony B. Pinn (Rice University, USA) 11. Deporter-in-Chief: Why Reject Christianity Hospitality?, Miguel A. De La Torre (Iliff School of Theology, USA) 12. 'Now.Next': Confronting the Past and Shaping the Future, Sharon Welch (Institute for Humanist Studies, USA) Bibliography Index