Religion, Race and the 2016 Election: Evangelicals, Jews, Latinos, and the Future of American Politics
Gastón Espinosa is the Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religion at Claremont McKenna College and co-editor of the Columbia University Press Series in Religion and Politics. Espinosa served as president of La Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars of Religion at the American Academy of Religion. He has been named an NEH Fellow at the NHC Institute for Advanced Studies (Raleigh-Durham) and the 2016-2017 William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and Public Life in the department of politics at Princeton University. He is the author/editor of eight books, including Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action (Harvard, 2014); Religion, Race, and Barack Obama's New Democratic Pluralism (Routledge, 2012); Religion and the American Presidency: George Washington to George W. Bush (Columbia, 2009); Mexican American Religions: Spirituality, Activism and Culture (Duke, 2008); and U.S. Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States (Oxford, 2005). He has also directed three national surveys on U.S. Latino religions and politics in 2000, 2008, and 2012, surveying more than 7,000 Latinos.
Espinosa's talk will also address the candidates' religious and racial-ethnic upbringing, personal views on religion and race as well select party platform related issues. He will also share survey and poll findings about how the American electorate is leaning this election season based on race, religion, generation, and gender.
Espinosa is currently researching and writing about Latino religions and politics in American public life and the spiritual impulse of the Mexican-American civil rights movement.
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