Модераторы Александр Гендельман Posted April 18, 2018 Модераторы Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 Andrew L Whitehead Samuel L Perry Joseph O Baker Sociology of Religion, srx070, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srx070 Published: 25 January 2018 Abstract Why did Americans vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential election? Social scientists have proposed a variety of explanations, including economic dissatisfaction, sexism, racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia. The current study establishes that, independent of these influences, voting for Trump was, at least for many Americans, a symbolic defense of the United States’ perceived Christian heritage. Data from a national probability sample of Americans surveyed soon after the 2016 election shows that greater adherence to Christian nationalist ideology was a robust predictor of voting for Trump, even after controlling for economic dissatisfaction, sexism, anti-black prejudice, anti-Muslim refugee attitudes, and anti-immigrant sentiment, as well as measures of religion, sociodemographics, and political identity more generally. These findings indicate that Christian nationalist ideology—although correlated with a variety of class-based, sexist, racist, and ethnocentric views—is not synonymous with, reducible to, or strictly epiphenomenal of such views. Rather, Christian nationalism operates as a unique and independent ideology that can influence political actions by calling forth a defense of mythological narratives about America’s distinctively Christian heritage and future. https://academic.oup.com/socrel/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/socrel/srx070/4825283?redirectedFrom=fulltext 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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