Liberal and progressive religious voices have become increasingly prominent in the 2008 presidential campaign. To complement a recent Forum-sponsored panel discussion on the ‘religious left,’ Associate Director Mark O’Keefe asked Senior Fellow John Green to define the various groups that make up the religious left movement and talk about implications for the ‘religious right.’ Featuring: John Green, Senior Fellow in Religion and American Politics, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Interviewer: Mark O’Keefe, Associate Director, Web Editorial, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life For years we have been hearing about the ‘religious right’ and its impact on American politics, but liberal and progressive religious voices are becoming increasingly prominent in media reports and at campaign stops. What is happening? There is considerable evidence that the group often called the ‘religious left’ is more active in the 2008 presidential campaign than in the recent past. There has been a spate of books talking about religion and progressive politics, such as Jim Wallis’ God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It, Michael Lerner’s The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right and Marcia Ford’s […]