The religious communication approach concerns the identification of causal explanations of
political behavior through the explicit measurement of exposure to communication and the …

Political science generally treats identities such as ethnicity, religion, and sexuality as
“unmoved movers” in the chain of causality. I hypothesize that the growing salience of …

Providing an in-depth analysis of public opinion, including its origins in political
socialization, its role in the electoral process, and the impact of the media, American Public …

American society is rapidly secularizing–a radical departure from its historically high level of
religiosity–and politics is a big part of the reason. Just as, forty years ago, the Religious …

White evangelicals overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump in the 2016 election,
producing extensive debate as to who evangelicals are, what it means to be an evangelical …

Academic research on Christian nationalism has revealed a considerable amount about the
scope of its relationships to public policy views in the US. However, work thus far has not …

Recent research argues that the United States is secularizing, that this religious change is
consistent with the secularization thesis, and that American religion is not exceptional. But …

A growing body of evidence suggests that the rise in religious disaffiliation can be partly
attributed to a political backlash against the Religious Right. Yet the concept of “political …

Are contemporary higher-status tastes inclusive, exclusive, or both? Recent work suggests
that the answer likely is both. And yet, little is known concerning how configurations of such …

Hout and Fischer have made the repeated, controversial claim that the dramatic rise of
“religious nones” in the United States is due to the prominence of the politics of the Christian …