{"id":6410,"date":"2017-10-10T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2017-10-09T10:36:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T15:36:53","slug":"linking-christian-nationalism-and-intolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2017\/10\/10\/linking-christian-nationalism-and-intolerance\/","title":{"rendered":"Linking Christian Nationalism and Intolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s been well documented that religion played an important role in the 2016 presidential election, as well as recent state elections<\/a>. <\/span>ThinkProgress.org<\/span><\/a>\u00a0recently contributed a new analysis of this relationship, highlighting preliminary research from a number of sociologists on the role of \u201cChristian nationalism\u201d in President Trump\u2019s victory. Their findings indicate that the belief that America is a Christian nation may both predict support for Trump and be connected to intolerant views of other groups. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sociologists\u00a0<\/span>Andrew Whitehead<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Samuel Perry<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Joseph Baker<\/span><\/a> found that Christian nationalism was \u201cstrongly and positively associated with voting for Trump,\u201d and they emphasized that Christian nationalism is not simply another measure of religiosity. Whitehead told ThinkProgress,<\/span><\/p>\n

“For this study, when we look at a lot of the normal ways we measure religiosity, at the end of the day, none of them really predict a vote for Trump except Christian nationalism. It didn\u2019t matter if you were evangelical or mainline [Christian], it didn\u2019t matter if you went to church a lot or a little, what mattered was whether you think America is a Christian nation.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whitehead notes that an important part of this research regards findings about the ways Christian nationalism interacts with other ideologies, and ThinkProgress reached out to sociologist \u00a0<\/span>Penny Edgell<\/span><\/a> for further development of this connection. Edgell\u2019s ongoing work with <\/span>Evan Stewart<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Jack Delehanty<\/span><\/a> indicates that support for “public religious expression,\u201d a variable that measures the belief that religion should be an integral part of public life and deliberation, is associated with intolerance against a variety of groups. Edgell emphasized the need for more analysis of white Christian nationalism, especially its role in <\/span>propagating ideologies<\/span><\/a> like Islamophobia and xenophobia. She told <\/span>ThinkProgress<\/span><\/i>,<\/span><\/p>\n

“Certain white Christian institutions house and foster and bundle these attitudes all together, and link them to politics in systematic ways.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been well documented that religion played an important role in the 2016 presidential election, as well as recent state elections. ThinkProgress.org\u00a0recently contributed a new analysis of this relationship, highlighting preliminary research from a number of sociologists on the role of \u201cChristian nationalism\u201d in President Trump\u2019s victory. Their findings indicate that the belief that America […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,85],"tags":[36395,39112,39110,39115,96216,36392],"class_list":["post-6410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-inequality","category-politics","tag-2016-election","tag-culture","tag-inequality","tag-politics","tag-roy-moore","tag-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6413,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions\/6413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}