Wade Clark Roof is Professor of Religious Studies and J.F.Rowny Chair in Religion and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His area of academic interest include: American Religious Trends, Sociology of Religion, and Ethnography. His recent publications are: “Religious Pluralism and Civil Society,” published as issue of The Annals, 2007; “Myths Undergirding War: American Presidential Rhetoric from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush,” (Social Compass, forthcoming); “Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Region: Fluid Identities (edited with Mark Silk)-published by AltaMira Press, 2005. His most research projects focus on Progressive Religious Voices in the US, Religious Pluralism and Civic Culture, and Generations and Religious Change.