Michael Cromartie and E. J. Dionne Religion on the Campaign Trail
b'Religious pronouncements seem to have become mandatory for the Democratic candidates in this election. Yet it\\u2019s been easy to deride the resulting sound bites that are widely repeated\\u2014such as Howard Dean\\u2019s proclamation of his favorite book of the New Testament: the Old Testament book of Job. Host Krista Tippett takes a larger view of what this election has to say about the role of religion in American life. Is it changing, and if so, what is substantive and important in that change?'