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n o t e s t o c h a p t e r 1 1. Conservative columnist and former Moral Majority official Cal Thomas went so far as to write that “Christianity is Politics” (Fundamentalist Journal, January 1983, 8). 2. Some of the better international/comparative studies in fundamentalism include Bruce B. Lawrence, Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1989); Lawrence Kaplan, Fundamentalism in Comparative Perspective (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992), and Bronislaw Miztal, ed., Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective: A Revival of Religious Fundamentalism in East and West (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1992). 3. A number of sources on party politics and religion are cited elsewhere, but good overall studies include Allen D. Hertzke, Echoes of Discontent: Jesse Jackson , Pat Robertson, and the Resurgence of Populism (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1993); Michael Lienesch, Redeeming America: Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993), and Michael Cromartie, No Longer Exiles: The Religious New Right in American Politics (Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1992). 4. Two particularly enlightening studies are Steve Bruce, The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Right (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), and Augustus Cerillo, Salt and Light: Evangelical Political Thought in Modern America (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1989). 5. These include legal studies such as Rodney A. Smolla, Jerry Falwell vs. Larry Flint: The First Amendment on Trial (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988); more constitutional studies such as Matthew C. Moen and Lowell S. Gustafson, eds., The Religious Challenge to the State (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992) and anthologies such as Charles W. Dunn, ed., American Political Theology : Historical Perspective and Theoretical Analysis (New York: Praeger, 1984). 6. This field seems to be growing. One of the best is Kathleen Boone, The Bible Tells Them So: The Discourse of Protestant Fundamentalism (Albany: SUNY Press, 1989). A densely researched, official statement-oriented approach Notes 237 is Mark Ellingsen, The Cutting Edge: How Churches Speak on Social Issues (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1993). Also see David Snowball, Continuity and Change in the Rhetoric of the Moral Majority (New York: Praeger, 1991). 7. Though this subfield has not attracted the attention that others have, it has attracted some of the better scholars, with works like Allen D. Hertzke, Representing God in Washington: The Role of Religious Lobbies in the American Polity (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988); Peter L. Benson and Dorothy L. Williams, Religion on Capitol Hill: Myths and Realities (San Francisco : Harper and Row, 1982); and Matthew C. Moen, The Christian Right and Congress (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989). 8. A summary and critique of these early studies can be found at the beginning of chapter 4. 9. I interviewed Michael Brintnall of the American Political Science Association on 11 August 1995. According to Brintnall, the Religion and Politics section of the APSA began in 1987 with 100 members, reaching a high-water mark of 555 in 1991. Current membership is 409. This level of interest among political scientists compares very favorably with the other 31 sections, which average 460 in membership. (Other sections include Comparative Politics, with 1,178 members ; Public Administration, with 687 members; History and Politics, with 543 members; Presidency, with 422 members; and Politics and Literature, with 277 members.) A new Christians in Political Science organization, separate from the APSA, has also been founded. 10. Kenneth Wald, Religion and Politics in the United States (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987); Kenneth Wald, Dennis E. Owen, and Samuel S. Hill, Jr., “Churches as Political Communities,” American Political Science Review 82:531–548. 11. David Leege and Lyman A. Kellstedt, Rediscovering the Religious Factor in American Politics (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1993). 12. Andrew M. Greeley, Religious Change in America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989). 13. Garry Wills, Under God: Religion and American Politics (New York: Touchstone, 1991). 14. Harold Bloom, The American Religion: The Emergence of a Post-Christian Nation (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992). 15. Stephen L. Carter, The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion (New York: Basic Books, 1993). 16. Wills, Under God, 18. 17. Lyman A. Kellstedt, John C. Green, James L. Guth, and Corwin E. Smidt, “Religious Voting Blocks in the 1992 Election: The Year of the Evangelical?,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association , Washington...