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| Unpacking Christian Nationalism |
March 07, 2024 |
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Dr. Robert P. Jones joins the program to discuss the latest research documenting the rising influence of Christian Nationalism in some segments of American politics. Jones details the methodology and criteria used to measure and estimate the proportion of Americans who sympathize or adhere to five core beliefs and those who are skeptics and rejectors of this religious, political ideology. Jones discusses the interplay of race, religion, and partisan identity and why certain wedge issues are salient in today’s political climate. He notes that among the findings, perhaps most disturbing, is evidence of a growing acceptance of political violence among those who are adherents and sympathizers of Christian Nationalism. The unwillingness to see one’s political opponent as a fellow citizen but rather as an existential enemy poses a severe threat to democracy, in Jones’s view.
Robert P. Jones, Ph.D., President and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute and a leading scholar and commentator on religion, culture, and politics. He is the author of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity and The End of White Christian America, which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
PRRI's entire report, Support for Christian Nationalism in All 50 States, is available on its website.
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