John Green to Discuss ‘The Faith Factor: Religion and Politics in 2010’

Free public lecture scheduled for Oct. 6 in Gault Recital Hall of Scheide Music Center at The College of Wooster

WOOSTER, Ohio — John C. Green, director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron, will address "The Faith Factor: Religion and Politics in 2010," on Wednesday, Oct. 6, at The College of Wooster. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7 p.m. in Gault Recital Hall of Scheide Music Center (525 E. University St.).

Green, who specializes in the study of religion and politics, political parties, and campaign finance, is a Senior Fellow with the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. He is the author of The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections and co-author of The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy; Religion and the Culture Wars: Dispatches From the Front; and The Diminishing Divide: Religion’s Changing Role in American Politics. In addition, he is co-editor of The State of the Parties, Multiparty Politics in America, and Financing the 1996 Election.

Green's lecture is sponsored by the departments of political science and religious studies. Additional information is available by phone (330-263-2306) or e-mail.