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Watch video of New York Times best-selling author Stephen Mansfield and Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean James Hudnut-Beumler discussing “Race, Religion and Politics: Evangelicals, Conservatives and Liberals Look for Common Ground” at Vanderbilt University Oct. 1.
Mansfield’s most recent work, The Faith of Barack Obama, has placed him in the national media spotlight as have his previous books on the faith of the Pope, the American soldier and George W. Bush. Hudnut-Beumler, author of In Pursuit of the Almighty’s Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism, has published widely in the areas of church history, ethics and philanthropy.
For this event, Hudnut-Beumler frames the historical aspects of the discussion and highlights issues from a liberal viewpoint and Mansfield presents the current religious aspects of the McCain-Palin and Obama-Biden tickets as well as trends and issues for conservative evangelicals.
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