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Corwin Smidt

Corwin Smidt is Paul B. Henry Professor of Political Science and Director of the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin College. He is co-author of Evangelicalism: The Next Generation (Baker, 2002). His most recently completed volumes are Pews, Prayers, and Participation: The Role of Religion in Fostering Civic Responsibility (Georgetown University Press, 2008) and his co-edited volume The Oxford Handbook on Religion and American Politics (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

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Friday, August 29th, 2008

The measurement of evangelicals

Despite the fact that there is considerable journalistic and scholarly discussion today concerning the role of evangelicals in American public life, the label itself has become a contested term. Just who should be labeled as evangelicals? And what serves as the basis of unity for those so gathered together under that label? Does the stipulated definition of evangelical exhibit any explanatory power either historically or currently? Or, is the term so contested that it would be better to abandon the use of the label altogether? [...]

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