Whitley Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
H. Shelton Smith Lecture sponsored by the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and the departments of Political Science and Religious Studies
A leading scholar on the relationship of religion and politics in American life, Green will present a nuanced account of how the American electorate expresses its religious and political commitments. In addition to the “Religious Right” and “Religious Left”, he identifies “Heartland Culture Warriors,” “Secularists,” “Spiritual But Not Religious,” and seven other tribes. Green is Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron, Director of its Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, and author of Religion and the Culture Wars: Dispatches from the Front.