Political scholar John Green will discuss the ways the American public expresses its religious and political commitments at the ballot box during the H. Shelton Smith Lecture at 7:30 p.m., Monday, March 7 in Whitley Auditorium on the Elon University campus. The Smith Lecture, which is sponsored by the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and the political science and religious studies departments, is free and open to the public.
A leading commentator on the relationship of religion and politics in American life, Green’s lecture is titled “The Twelve Tribes of American Politics.” He uses titles, such as Religious Right, Religious Left, and Secularists, to explain the factors that influence voter decisions.
Green is professor of political science at the University of Akron and director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics. He is the author of “Religion and the Culture Wars: Dispatches from the Front.”
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