Religion as Social Capital: Producing the Common Good

About the Contributors

Stephanie Clintonia Boddie is an Assistant Professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Her areas of interest are community development and community health with a particular focus on faith-based organizations. She has co-authored two books and several book chapters and articles in the areas of faith based social services. David Campbell is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His research has explored how religion, politics, and public policy intersect in America. He is the editor (along with Paul E. Peterson) of Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education (Brookings 2001), to which he has contributed a chapter on the civic education offered by America’s public and private schools. He is also a co-author of The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (Brookings 2002). John A. Coleman S.J. is Casassa Professor of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Among his sixteen books is Religion and Nationalism (Orbis Press, 1995). He has recently published “Christianity and Civil Society” in Robert Post and Nancy Rosenblum, Civil Society and Government (Princeton University Press 2001) and “Selling God in America” in Richard Madsen, Ann Swidler, William Sullivan, and Stephen Tipton, eds, Meaning and Modernity (University of California Press 2001). Ram A. Cnaan is a Professor and Director of the Program for the Study of Organized Religion and Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania, School About the Contributors 255 of Social Work. He is the author of The Newer Deal (Columbia University 1999) and The Invisible Caring Hand (NYU Press 2002). Dr. Cnaan studies the role organized religion plays in helping those in need. Janel Curry is the Dean for Research and Scholarship and Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Calvin College. Her area of research interest is in societal paradigms and natural resource management. She has recently published a book with Steven McGuire titled Community on Land: Community, Ecology, and the Public Interest (Rowman and Littlefield 2002). John C. Green is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. He has written extensively on religion and politics in the United States. He is co-author of The Bully Pulpit, Religion and the Culture Wars, and co-editor of Prayers in the Precincts. James. L. Guth is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Furman University. He has written extensively on the role of religion in American and European politics. He is co-author of The Bully Pulpit, Religion and the Culture Wars and is currently engaged in a study of the impact of religious belief and practices on public support for the European Union. Fredrick C. Harris is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of African-American Politics at the University of Rochester. His areas of interest are political participation, social movements, and African-American politics. He is the author of Something Within: Religion in African-American Political Activism (Oxford University Press 1999), which won the best book award by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, the V.O. Key Award by the Southern Political Science Association, and the Outstanding Book Award by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Lyman Kellstedt has recently retired from teaching at Wheaton College but continues to engage in research on religion and American politics. He has written extensively on the topic and is co-author of The Bully Pulpit, Religion and the Culture Wars. Donald A. Luidens is Professor of Sociology at Hope College. His research interests have been in the sociology of religion with particular focus on mainline Protestants. Among his publications is the co-authored book Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers. Roger J. Nemeth is a Professor of Sociology at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He has long-standing research interests in the changing nature of congregations in American religious life. Corwin Smidt holds the Paul B. Henry Chair in Christianity and Politics and serves as the director of The Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin College. He has written extensively on the role of religion in American politics. He is co-author of The Bully Pulpit, Religion and the Culture Wars, and Evangelicalism: The Next Generation. 256 About the Contributors Mark R. Warren is Associate Professor in the...