Corwin Smidt
- Dr. Corwin Smidt
- Professor Emeritus;
Senior Fellow, Paul Henry Institute - Politics and Economics, Henry Institute
- Hiemenga Hall 456 (Map)
- (616) 526-6233
- smid@calvin.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Corwin E. Smidt is a senior research fellow at the Henry Institute for the Study of Religion and Politics, Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI), and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Calvin College. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and has been engaged in the study of religion and public life for nearly three decades. Smidt served as the Executive Director of the Henry Institute for fifteen years, and was a founding member of the Religion and Politics section of the American Political Science Association, serving several terms on the section’s executive council and once as its Executive Director. He has also served on the governing council of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and was recently nominated as its President-Elect.
He is the author, editor, or co-author/co-editor of fifteen books and has published in a variety of social and political science journals. His most recently completed volumes are American Evangelicals Today (Rowman and Littlefield) The Disappearing God Gap? Religion in the 2008 Presidential Election (Oxford), The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics (Oxford), and Pews, Prayers, and Participation: The Role of Religion in Fostering Civic Responsibility (Georgetown).
Publications
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Generational Conversion? The Politics of Evangelicals in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
by Mikael Pelz, Corwin Smidt
Published: September 22, 2015
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Pews, Prayers and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility
by Corwin E. Smidt, Kevin R. den Dulk, Douglas Koopman, Stephen Monsma
Published: November 12, 2008
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The Disappearing God Gap?: Religion in the 2008 Presidential Election
by Corwin E. Smidt, Kevin den Dulk, James Penning, Steve Monsma, Doug Koopman, Bryan Froehle
Published: February 8, 2011
ISBN: 978-0199734702
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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Politics
Contributor(s): Douglas L. Koopman,
Published: August 16, 2009
ISBN: 9780195326529
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American Evangelicals Today
by Corwin E. Smidt
Published: March 18, 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4422-1729-4
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4422-1731-7 -
Pastors and Public Life: The Changing Face of American Protestant Clergy
by Corwin E. Smidt
Published: March 15, 2016
ISBN: 978-0190455507
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