Dr. Ron Sider (Palmer Theological Seminary)

Contact: Dr. Ron Sider

Reading List

  1. Sider, JUST POLITICS: A GUIDE FOR CHRISTIAN ENGAGEMENT (Baker,2012)

  2. Sider, RICH CHRISTIANS IN AN AGE OF HUNGER (6th ed; Nelson, 2015)

  3. David R. Swartz, MORAL MINORITY: THE EVANGELICAL LEFT IN AN AGE OF CONSERVATISM (Univ. of Penn Press, 2012)

  4. Jim Wallis, GOD’S POLITICS (Harper San Francisco, 2005)

  5. Jim Wallis, AMERICA’S ORIGINAL SIN; RACISM, WHITE PRIVILEGE AND THE BRIDGE TO A NEW AMERICA (Brazos, 2016)

  6. Landon Schnabel and Sean Bock, “The Persistent and Exceptional Intensity of American Religion”, SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCE, Nov 2017, pp. 686-700

Dr. Lia Howard (Eastern University)

Contact: Dr. Lia Howard

A link to Dr. Howard’s lecture slides can be found HERE. 

References and Resources:

  1. Robert D. Putnam and David Campbell American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (Simon and Schuster, 2010)

  2. DiIulio, John. Godly Republic: A Centrist Bluepirnt for America's Faith Based Future (University of California Press 2007)

  3. Smidt, Corwin et al Pews Prayers and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility in America (Georgetown University Press 2008)

  4. Cass Sunstein #republic : Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media (Princeton University Press, 2017)

  5. Diana Muntz In Your Face Politics: The Consequences of UnCivil Media (Princeton University Press, 2015)

  6. Alan Abramowitz The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation and the Rise of Donald Trump (Yale University Press, 2018)

  7. Yascha Mounk "The Rise of McPolitics" The New Yorker June 25, 2018 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/02/the-rise-of-mcpolitics

  8. Gimpel and Chinni, Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth about the "Real" America. 2011.  

  9. Fitzgerald. The Evangelicals: The Struggle To Shape America.

  10. Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring - a ground-breaking book that describes how pesticides affect the environment.