Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans?: Party Activists, Party Capture, and the 'God Gap' - Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics

Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans? challenges a conventional wisdom in which recently mobilized religious and Secular extremists captured the parties and created a God gap. Using surveys (1960–2008), Claassen investigates the motivations of religious and non-religious activists and produces a new way of understanding the religious divide in American politics.