By Alena Smith and Julianna J. Thomson [Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons] After Mike Johnson (R-LA) became Speaker of the House in October 2023, Republican legislators started using significantly mo…| Religion in Public
By Paul A. Djupe, Amanda J. Friesen, Anand E. Sokhey, and Jacob R. Neiheisel In new research out at Political Behavior (open access!), we investigate whether attending church encourages greater acceptance of atheists. If you think that statistical result is bonkers, you’re not alone – we do, too. But it turns out that scrutinizing and […]| Religion in Public
By Paul A. Djupe and Jacob R. Neiheisel [Image credit: earth.org] Ahead of the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, nearly 30 religious leaders across a wide range of faith communities gathered to pen a statement pledging to “Actively participate in public discourse on environmental matters, guiding our congregations and institutions to foster resilient […]| Religion in Public
By Jacob R. Neiheisel and Paul A. Djupe In the early morning hours of June 14th, a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband were shot and killed in what Minnesota Governor Tim Walz described as “what app…| Religion in Public
By Brooklyn Walker and Paul A. Djupe “Section 1. Purpose and Policy. It is the policy of the United States, and the purpose of this order, to protect the religious freedoms of Americans and end the…| Religion in Public
By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker [Image credit: Tennessee Lookout] A recent story from NPR helps make the connections between extraordinarily restrictive anti-abortion policies and a broader mo…| Religion in Public
By Brooklyn Walker and Paul A. Djupe [Image credit: Georgetown Gender + Justice Initiative] Despite initially receiving ambivalent reactions, Roe v. Wade soon divided the country. Anti-abortion pol…| Religion in Public
By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker 316Tees, a leading purveyor of Christian clothing, offers several unisex t-shirts featuring American flags and phrases like “One Nation Under God” or “God Bless America.” Their women’s shirts reference grace, joy, love, and coffee, many in bright or pastel colors. The men’s shirt section takes a decidedly different […]| Religion in Public
By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker [Image credit: Mother Jones] If there’s one thing we thought we could count on in the social scientific study of religion, it was the gender gap in religious id…| Religion in Public
Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker Image Credit: Florida Weekly. So much of the commentary around Christian nationalism wants to limit it, often just to Whites. Such rhetorical fencing serves to narrow the scope of the worldview and create an “other” that is politically palatable. But what if adherence to Christian nationalist attitudes extends beyond […]| Religion in Public
By Paul A. Djupe, Denison University Due to the power of The Atlantic, many more Americans have become acquainted with the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) featured in Stephanie McCrummen’s excellen…| Religion in Public
By Brooklyn Walker and Don Haider-Markel The appropriate role of religion, namely Christianity, in public life has long been debated in the United States. In the case of civil religion, religious r…| Religion in Public
By Paul A. Djupe, Denison University This week the seven mountain mandate (7MM) was in the news as New Apostolic Reformation apostle Lance Wallnau is warming up Project 19 – an attempt to mobilize …| Religion in Public
By Anand E. Sokhey and Paul A. Djupe ——> Order online for a 30% discount using code PENN-SOKHEYDJUPE30 <—— At a campaign appearance at the CPAC conference last month, …| Religion in Public
By Paul A. Djupe (Denison University) and Jacob R. Neiheisel (SUNY-Buffalo) “2024 is our final battle.” “The Seal is broken by what they’ve done…” “the sick political class that hates our cou…| Religion in Public
By Paul A. Djupe It was strange enough that religious conservatives embraced Donald Trump once he became the Republican front-runner in early 2016, but for some that embrace went a whole lot furthe…| Religion in Public
Jacob Neiheisel (SUNY-Buffalo) and Paul A. Djupe (Denison University) The world is beset by demons; warfare in the spirit realm is unfolding in ways that resonate with the Book of Revelation presag…| Religion in Public
by Ryan P. Burge, Eastern Illinois University For the last nine months straight, the most read post on Religion in Public is: Gen Z and Religion in 2021. Well, the Cooperative Election Study just r…| Religion in Public
