For our proseminar in American studies we ( two English students from Germany) are doing a blog project. In our blog project we are going to discuss religious narratives and the importance of religin in the presidential election in the U.S. 2008 and the federal elections 2009 in Germany. First we are going to to give general information about religion in the U.S. and Germany. After that we are going to look at how the media covered religion in both countries during the elections. Furthermore we consider the look at religious voters as important and point out the changes over the years.
Later on we give an example to proove our theses. In the end we compare how both countries dealt with a rumour about Barack Obama. We are also going to to give a conclusion to summarize our results.