01161nam a22001217a 4500008004100000100002400041245003900065260001500104300003400119520083500153650003700988773001401025210223b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a Campbell, David E.  aThe perils of politicized religion  aDaedalus    a149(3), Summer 2020: p.87-104  aIn the United States, religion and partisan politics have become increasingly intertwined. The rising level of religious disaffiliation is a backlash to the religious right: many Americans are abandoning religion because they see it as an extension of politics with which they disagree. Politics is also shaping many Americans’ religious views. There has been a stunning change in the percentage of religious believers who, prior to Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy, overwhelmingly objected to immoral private behavior by politicians but now dismiss it as irrelevant to their ability to act ethically in their public role. The politicization of religion not only contributes to greater political polarization, it diminishes the ability of religious leaders to speak prophetically on important public issues. - Reproduced   aUnited States, Partisan politics  aDaedalus