This text addresses whether and how religion and religious institutions affect American politics. For some time, analysts have argued that the conflicts of the

American society is rapidly secularizing–a radical departure from its historically high level of religiosity–and politics is a big part of the reason. Just

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The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of Am