Is that thank you. Theres a switch on the mike. 15 years ago, in a journal of american history article, John Butler challenged historians of modern america to pay attention to religion. In particular, he noted, religions continuing importance in 20th century american politics deserved sustained attention and analysis. Scholarship in american religious history has proliferated. In political history, religion has often retained, in butlers term, a jack in the box quality. Colorful, surprising, left on the periphery to pop up occasionally rather than systematically. Today, we will address how religion matters in american political history. We will do so in three days. First, i will ask each of our panelists to focus on a way in which religion matters, that is in their own research how religion plays a role in spaces that they are working on but also how centering religion in these spaces gives us a different narrative, a different story than if it were on the periphery or ignored in some
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