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American Quarterly Editors Editor: Curtis Marez, University of Southern California Associate Editor: Avery Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara Associate Editor: Katherine Kinney, University of California, Riverside Associate Editor: James Kyung Jin Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara Associate Editor: Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego Book Review Editor: Nan Enstad, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Authors should submit their manuscripts (preferably) via email to american.quarterly@usc.edu as attached documents in either Word or Word Perfect formats, or (alternatively) mail three copies to the editor.  Manuscripts are evaluated anonymously, so authors’ names should appear on a separate title page or in correspondence only.  Manuscripts should be in the range of 5,000 – 10,000 words, with a maximum of 10,000 words total, including footnotes, and conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.  Please note:  we do not require that you format your essay in AQ style before it is accepted for publication, but we do require that submissions be of reasonable length.  Essay submissions over 12,000 words will be returned to authors without being read. Further submission instructions can be found by clicking the “Author Info” link on our website, www.americanquarterly.org

American Quarterly

Founded in 1949, American Quarterly is the journal of the American Studies Association. American Quarterly represents innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that engages with key issues in American studies.  The journal publishes essays that examine American societies and cultures, past and present, in global and local contexts.  This includes work that contributes to our understanding of the United States in its diversity, its relations with its hemispheric neighbors, and its impact on world politics and culture.  Through the publication of reviews of books, exhibitions, and diverse media, the journal seeks to make available the broad range of emergent approaches to American studies. American Quarterly is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December.  It is available online to ASA members and through Project Muse and JSTOR.

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Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States, Volume 59, Number 3

The 2006 special issue focuses on the different ways in which religion and politics intersect in the contemporary United States.  The articles are written by a wide range of scholars from several academic disciplines, pointing out multiple ways these two themes are currently intersecting.

Introduction: Is the Public Square Still Naked?

By R. Marie Griffith and Melani McAlister

"Favoritism Cannot Be Tolerated": Challenging Protestantism in America's Public Schools and Promoting the Neutral State

By Kevin M. Schultz

Selling American Diversity and Muslim American Identity through Nonprofit Advertising Post-9/11

By Evelyn Alsultany

"The ERA Is a Moral Issue": The Mormon Church, LDS Women, and the Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment

By Neil J. Young

Hot Damned America: Evangelicalism and the Climate Change Policy Debate

By Brian McCammack

Catholics, Democrats, and the GOP in Contemporary America

By John McGreevy

Islamism and Its African American Muslim Critics: Black Muslims in the Era of the Arab Cold War

By Edward E. Curtis IV

“As Americans Against Genocide”: The Crisis in Darfur and Interreligious Political Activism

By Jodi Eichler-Levine and Rosemary Hicks

From Exodus to Exile: Black Pentecostals, Migrating Pilgrims, and Imagine Internationlism

By Clarence E. Hardy III

Who Speaks for Indian Americans? Religion, Ethnicity, and Political Formation

By Prema Kurien

Benjamin Mays, Global Ecumenism, and Local Religious Segregation

By Barbara Dianne Savage

Impossible Assimilations, American Liberalism, and Jewish Difference: Revisiting Jewish Secularism

By Laura Levitt

An Exception to Exceptionalism: A Reflection on Reinhold Niebuhr's Vision of "Prophetic" Christianity and the Problem of Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy

By Michael G. Thompson

Cesar Chavez in American Religious Politics: Remapping the New Spiritual Line

By Luis León

Ties That Bind and Divisions That Persist: Evangelical Faith and the Political Spectrum

By D. Michael Lindsay

“Signaling Through the Flames”: Hell House Performance and Structures of Religious Feeling

By Ann Pellegrini

Critical Faith: Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion

By Jane Naomi Iwamura

Back to the Future: Religion, Politics, and the Media

By Diane Winston

Testimonial Politics: The Christian Right’s Faith-Based Approach to Marriage and Imprisonment

By Tanya Erzen

“It Will Change the World If Everybody Reads This Book”: New Thought Religion in Oprah’s Book Club

By Trysh Travis

Other Issues

June 2010, Volume 62, Number 2,
March 2010, Volume 62, Number 1,
December 2009, Volume 61, Number 4
September 2009, Special Issue, In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions, Volume 61, Number 3,
June 2009, Volume 61, Number 2
March 2009, Volume 61, Number 1
December 2008, Volume 60, Number 4
June 2008, Volume 60, Number 2
December 2007, Volume 59, Number 4
Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders , Vol. 57, No. 3
Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures,
March 2006, Volume 58, Number 1