Emilie Townes

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Emilie Townes is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology at Yale University.

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Religion and the midterm elections

Dr. Richard Amesbury·

Jason C. Bivins·

J. Kameron Carter·

Ernesto Cortes, Jr.·

John L. Jackson, Jr.·

David Kyuman Kim·

Rabbi Michael Lerner·

Ebrahim Moosa·

John Schmalzbauer·

Jeffrey Stout·

Emilie Townes·

November 5, 2010

Set against a backdrop of continued economic distress, the emerging Tea Party movement, and mercurial public opinion of President Obama, many observers…