July 11, 2008 == MEDIA ADVISORY
For more on Smidt see http://www.calvin.edu/news/2007-08/corwin-smidt/
For more on the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion see http://www.sssrweb.org/
Calvin College professor of political science Corwin Smidt, also the director of the college's Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics, has been elected to the governing council of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.
He will serve a three-year term, spanning the 2009, 2010 and 2011 meetings of the organization.
The society was founded in 1949 and fosters collaboration among scholars from a range of discipline, including sociology, religious studies, psychology, political science, economics and more.
The scientific study of religion is something that recently landed Smidt in a plethora of national newspapers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Christianity Today, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today.
Those papers were calling Smidt about a national survey commissioned by the Henry Institute that asked 3,000 respondents various questions about religion, politics and the 2008 presidential election. One interesting conclusion from the survey was that for the first time since the New Deal, the percentage of mainline Protestants who identify as Democrats is greater than the percentage who identify as Republicans.
Contact Smidt at 616-526-6233
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