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Copies of our new book arrived today, and if you order right away you can get it for 25 percent off. You can think of it as kind of the Cliff's Notes version of the Greenberg Center's Religion by Region project--cheap at three times the price--but more importantly, it offers a new way of understanding the history of religion in contemporary American public life that integrates religious demography and regional culture into the narrative of national politics. In more ways than I can think, this blog has been informed and shaped by what we learned from the project of which One Nation, Divisible is the culmination.

David Domke and Kevin Coe have teamed up to publish a new book, The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America. The book highlights the increase of religious rhetoric in recent years.

"On average, presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Jimmy Carter mentioned God in less than half of their major addresses. Put another way, more often than not presidents during these years made no mention of God in important speeches. Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush (through year six) all did so in more than 90% of theirs."