Survey finds a third of Americans are Christian nationalists and most are white evangelicals
United StatesRNS A new survey finds that fewer than a third of Americans, or 29 per cent, qualify as Christian nationalists, and of those, two-thirds define themselves as white evangelicals. The survey of 6,212 Americans by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution is the largest yet to gauge the size and scope of Christian […]
Confederate memorials still divide Americans and religion is a big predictor – survey
United StatesRNS “The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” William Faulkner once famously quipped. The Mississippi writer had it right – at least when it comes to the Civil War, anyway. A war that split America as it was fought continues to do so in its memory. An 2020 image of the late […]
Most white US evangelicals don’t want to live in a religiously diverse country – study
RNS Should America be a nation made up of people from a wide variety of religions? A growing number of religious and non-religious Americans say yes, according to a new study from Public Religion Research Institute. But there’s one religious group that stands out: White evangelical Christians; 57 per cent indicate they’d prefer the US be a […]
‘Great replacement’ belief correlates with Christian nationalist views in US – survey
RNS An often repeated element of Christian nationalism – an ideology with a range of expressions and increasingly vocal supporters – is a belief in America’s divine origins. The United States, proponents insist, is meant to be a “city on a hill” which God intends as a blessing and example for the world. A new […]