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This book considers the production of political media content from
the perspective of academics who are increasingly asked to join the
ranks of voices charged with informing the public. The work draws
on the authors' first-hand experience and relationships with media
reporters, managers, producers, and academics offering their
expertise to a wide array of media outlets to understand and report
on the dynamics shaping how the academic voice in political news
may be at its most useful. Featured prominently in the book is the
trade-off between a conventional form of political punditry, which
is often characterized by partisan rancour, and a more analytical,
theoretical, and/or policy-based approach to explaining politics to
both general and diverse audiences. Along the way, the work draws
on original survey, in-depth interview, and experimental data to
garner insights on what academics in media, reporters, and media
managers perceive are the appropriate roles for academics featured
in political media. This book also contains relevant technical tips
for effective media communication by academics.
This book considers the production of political media content from
the perspective of academics who are increasingly asked to join the
ranks of voices charged with informing the public. The work draws
on the authors' first-hand experience and relationships with media
reporters, managers, producers, and academics offering their
expertise to a wide array of media outlets to understand and report
on the dynamics shaping how the academic voice in political news
may be at its most useful. Featured prominently in the book is the
trade-off between a conventional form of political punditry, which
is often characterized by partisan rancour, and a more analytical,
theoretical, and/or policy-based approach to explaining politics to
both general and diverse audiences. Along the way, the work draws
on original survey, in-depth interview, and experimental data to
garner insights on what academics in media, reporters, and media
managers perceive are the appropriate roles for academics featured
in political media. This book also contains relevant technical tips
for effective media communication by academics.
"Muslim Americans are at a political crossroads," write editors
Brian Calfano and Nazita Lajevardi. Whereas Muslims are now widely
incorporated in American public life, there are increasing social
and political pressures that disenfranchise them or prevent them
from realizing the American Dream. Understanding Muslim Political
Life in America brings clarity to the social, religious, and
political dynamics that this diverse religious community faces. In
this timely volume, leading scholars cover a variety of topics
assessing the Muslim American experience in the post-9/11 and
pre-Trump era, including law enforcement; identity labels used in
Muslim surveys; the role of gender relations; recognition; and how
discrimination, tolerance, and politics impact American Muslims.
Understanding Muslim Political Life in America offers an update and
reappraisal of what we know about Muslims in American political
life. The editors and contributors also consider future directions
and important methodological questions for research in Muslim
American scholarship. Contributors include Matt A. Barreto,
Alejandro Beutel, Tony Carey, Youssef Chouhoud, Karam Dana, Oz
Dincer, Rachel Gillum, Kerem Ozan Kalkan, Anwar Manje, Valerie
Martinez-Ebers, Dani McLaughlan, Melissa R. Michelson, Yusuf
Sarfati, Ahmet Tekelioglu, Marianne Marar Yacobian, and the
editors.
In recent years, interest in religion and politics at the national
level has surged while extensive activity at the state level has
gone largely unnoticed. Yet, with state government budgets
increasing exponentially over the past three decades, churches and
religious organizations are focusing tremendous energy and
resources toward influencing the ways states are spending their
money and governing their populace. In this groundbreaking
collection, Edward Cleary and Allen Hertzke bring together nine new
essays that provide the first systematic, comparative view of
religion and politics at the state level. These essays take an
in-depth look at the pressing issues facing states across the
nation and how religious lobbies and organizations are addressing
them. By examining the responses of different denominations and
their rationales for involvement, the contributors explore the
enormous diversity of interests being represented at the state
level. As highly controversial programs and laws continue to divide
state governments, Representing God at the Statehouse provides an
important look at the current state of religion and democracy.
From a Church that once enjoyed devotional loyalty, political
influence, and institutional power unrivaled in Europe, the
Catholic Church in Ireland now faces collapse. Devastated by a
series of reports on clerical sexual abuse, challenged publicly
during several political battles, and painfully aware of plunging
Mass attendance, the Irish Church today is confronted with the loss
of its institutional legitimacy. This study is the first
international and interdisciplinary attempt to consider the scope
of the problem, analyze issues that are crucial to the Irish
context, and identify signs of both resilience and renewal. In
addition to an overview of the current status and future directions
of Irish Catholicism, The Catholic Church in Ireland Today examines
specific issues such as growing secularism, the changing image of
Irish bishops, generational divides, Catholic migrants to Ireland,
the abuse crisis and responses in Ireland and the United States,
Irish missionaries, the political role of Irish priests, the 2012
Dublin Eucharistic Congress, and contemplative strands in Irish
identity. This book identifies the key issues that students of
Irish society and others interested in Catholic culture must
examine in order to understand the changing roles of religion in
the contemporary world.
"Muslim Americans are at a political crossroads," write editors
Brian Calfano and Nazita Lajevardi. Whereas Muslims are now widely
incorporated in American public life, there are increasing social
and political pressures that disenfranchise them or prevent them
from realizing the American Dream. Understanding Muslim Political
Life in America brings clarity to the social, religious, and
political dynamics that this diverse religious community faces. In
this timely volume, leading scholars cover a variety of topics
assessing the Muslim American experience in the post-9/11 and
pre-Trump era, including law enforcement; identity labels used in
Muslim surveys; the role of gender relations; recognition; and how
discrimination, tolerance, and politics impact American Muslims.
Understanding Muslim Political Life in America offers an update and
reappraisal of what we know about Muslims in American political
life. The editors and contributors also consider future directions
and important methodological questions for research in Muslim
American scholarship. Contributors include Matt A. Barreto,
Alejandro Beutel, Tony Carey, Youssef Chouhoud, Karam Dana, Oz
Dincer, Rachel Gillum, Kerem Ozan Kalkan, Anwar Manje, Valerie
Martinez-Ebers, Dani McLaughlan, Melissa R. Michelson, Yusuf
Sarfati, Ahmet Tekelioglu, Marianne Marar Yacobian, and the
editors.
Clergy are pillars of local religious communities, and Roman
Catholic priests are perhaps the quintessential examples of pastors
functioning as political elites. The political science literature
demonstrates that priests (indeed, clergy more generally) are
well-positioned to influence the faithful, even if this influence
is somewhat inconsistent. At their core, priests are opinion
leaders and representatives of their church to both the faithful
and their local communities. But exactly how Catholic priests
determine the political acts and attitudes associated with their
elite role remains a puzzle. We suggest it is the product of an
interactive institutional, social, and psychological milieu, the
complexity of which has not been fully assessed in the extant
literature. Though some might prefer to think of priests as
profiles in courage operating above the political fray, the
institutional and personal realities of priest life often forces
them to deal with the political realm. In doing so, priests are
variably responsive to different principals, or reference groups,
that represent specific dimensions of their professional context.
Drawing on a series of randomized experiments on samples of Roman
Catholic priests in the US and Ireland, we find that priests
cognitively draw on varying professional and personal cues in
responding to their employer's institutional preferences.
Furthermore, how priests represent their church's political
preferences to parishioners appears to be a matter of
individual-level discretion.
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