LAURA R. OLSON is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clemson University. She is author of Filled with Spirit and Power: Protestant Clergy in Politics (forthcoming), and the co-author of Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices (1999).

TED G. JELEN is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. His recent books include The Political Mobilization of Religious Beliefs (Praeger, 1991) and The Political World of the Clergy (Praeger, 1993). He is also the editor of Religion and Political Behavior in the United States (Praeger, 1989), Perspectives on the Politics of Abortion (Praeger, 1995), and co-editor of Abortion Politics in the United States and Canada: Studies in Public Opinion (Praeger, 1994).