Religion and the 2008 Election

In collaboration with EJ Dionne and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, the Center is sponsoring a series of events dedicated to the 2008 Election. In January 2008 Sojourners and the Berkley Center co-hosted an evening of discussion and debate on Jim Wallis’s latest book, The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post–Religious Right America. E.J. Dionne provided commentary. In April Dionne presented his book Souled Out: Faith and Politics after the Religious Right. In addition, Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), one of the candidates for the Republican nomination in 2008, discussed his views on faith and national and international affairs with Georgetown’s President John J. DeGioia. The Center also hosts a database, Faith 2008, which tracks religious rhetoric in the campaign.