https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to polling en https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/05/despite-gop-devolving-white-christian-nationalist-party-majority-us-does-not-support In the wake of the election of Donald Trump with the strong support of White evangelical and other conservative White Christians, my organization, PRRI, released yesterday our annual update of the largest ongoing study of Christian nationalism ever conducted. Based… Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:53:50 EST Robert P. Jones 946225f3-9c02-438e-951d-d82850f70009 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/27/prophecy-and-prosperity-are-keys-republican-christian-nationalism-according-new-poll This morning, PRRI released a new study on religious change in the US with implications for understanding support for White Christian nationalism and its avatar, Donald Trump. Those implications fall into two broad categories: religious change and the faith identity… Wed, 27 Mar 2024 02:32:05 EDT Daniel Schultz 59b22e1d-db76-4c5b-814c-34bffebbc543 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/12/21/study-shows-mainline-women-clergy-are-significantly-more-progressive-their-male Given the history of opposition to the ordination of women, it may come as little surprise to learn that mainline Protestant women clergy are some of the strongest voices supporting marginalized communities and prioritizing religious pluralism. Across social issues and… Thu, 21 Dec 2023 12:40:58 EST Melissa Deckman 6e6cc961-65f9-4480-b33f-0c2da1024117 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/06/08/new-poll-reveals-anti-trans-rhetoric-isnt-just-affecting-republicans-and-white Remember when transgender Americans seemed to be having a positive cultural moment? Former child actor and author Chaz Bono, Sonny and Cher’s transgender son, helped pave the way with a documentary about his experience that came out in 2011, the… Thu, 08 Jun 2023 04:29:39 EDT Chrissy Stroop df223ab5-2c06-4ffb-8bfb-3268e8f853a1 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/05/17/new-data-strongly-suggest-correlation-between-disaffiliation-and-christianitys For centuries, American evangelical Protestants have been obsessed with religious ‘revival.’ Fear of ostensible societal, moral, and religious ‘decline’ is the other side of the same paranoid Christian coin. The United States, deeply influenced by early Puritan settlers and other… Wed, 17 May 2023 03:10:02 EDT Chrissy Stroop 22349fab-511f-4a50-bae5-ef8a7222b312 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/09/30/new-report-white-evangelicals-are-americas-most-anti-trans-demographic-encouraging-data In the latest important, if entirely unsurprising, news we learned this week that white evangelicals are more opposed to transgender rights than any other demographic in the United States. The data is found in a new report by the Public… Thu, 30 Sep 2021 05:22:28 EDT Chrissy Stroop 19a33333-6f7f-41d5-8e5e-1d466a86e8cd https://religiondispatches.org/2021/07/20/how-far-will-white-christians-go-maintain-power-interview-robert-jones Robert P. Jones is CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the author of two books, including last year’s much-discussed White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in Christian America , which just came out… Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:47:50 EDT Peter Laarman c7889245-5344-45d0-b3f1-04c15f0895cd https://religiondispatches.org/2017/09/06/not-so-fast-new-data-does-not-support-conservative-shift-dems It’s more or less an article of faith that religious Americans, especially white Americans, have abandoned the Democratic Party. And indeed, a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute confirms that the Republican and Democratic Parties are drifting further… Wed, 06 Sep 2017 10:12:18 EDT Patricia Miller 82483c08-39a0-4865-9e76-498298cfe6b7 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/11/09/white-evangelicals-support-trump-tremendous-numbers “White evangelicals: you’ve decisively proven that you love your whiteness more than you love your black & brown brothers & sisters in Christ.” Wed, 09 Nov 2016 02:42:50 EST Evan Derkacz 6455c1a9-23c0-445b-94d9-fa374ab95c73 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/20/have-white-evangelicals-become-more-accepting-candidates-personal-immorality-new-data In a recent survey, 72 percent of white evangelicals said immorality wasn’t a detriment to being a good public servant. Thu, 20 Oct 2016 05:25:38 EDT Michael Schulson eedd792c-b67b-46dd-9f3e-4ddb3b7afc6b https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/28/holey-holey-holey-problem-new-study-valuing-religion-12-trillion-year Does religious activity really account for 7 percent of the U.S. GDP? Wed, 28 Sep 2016 03:57:54 EDT Michael Schulson 1f5009be-c84f-4e8a-bf7d-b8bd3c7917e5 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/07/refusing-religion-claiming-future-roundtable-discussion-nones-are-alright What does it mean that a quarter of all Americans “describe their religion as ’ nothing in particular’ ”? In her newest book, The Nones Are Alright: A New Generation of Seekers, Believers and Those in Between, Kaya Oakes ventures deep… Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:00:56 EST Peter Laarman 1fbe2a64-81da-47ae-98ea-225b4a6db6e8 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/28/america-no-longer-christian-nation-and-other-critical-data-2015 After a year that included Pope Francis’ first visit to the U.S., the ongoing battle over “religious freedom” laws, and shifting views about America’s Christian heritage, we took a look back on some of the more important—and surprising—findings about American… Mon, 28 Dec 2015 06:00:37 EST Daniel Cox, Joanna Piacenza c18475ea-4bb9-4131-ae0e-7dcb8c1c5edf https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/11/has-science-proven-deepak-chopra-bullshit An illustrated guide. Fri, 11 Dec 2015 01:14:11 EST Andrew Aghapour f4aae365-8608-4ae6-872d-deda99e75aef https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/10/debunking-myth-democracy-incompatible-islam An excerpt from Asma Afsaruddin’s new book, “Contemporary Issues in Islam.” Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:18:04 EST Asma Afsaruddin dc2380a2-0390-4a9d-a1a9-c69eb32a6ba7 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/08/dont-call-it-prayer-shaming-our-moral-failure-exposed On Wednesday, December 2, 2015, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, murdered 14 people and injured 21 during a targeted attack at Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, CA. In the aftermath of the attack, a number of… Tue, 08 Dec 2015 02:59:48 EST Willie Dwayne Francois c1e70da4-f998-4b28-8ac8-c43c6c409746 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/30/religious-kids-are-more-selfish-stickers-dont-lie Are kids from more religious families more or less altruistic than their peers from less-religious families? That’s what a high-profile new study from University of Chicago neuroscientist Jean Decety and a global crew of collaborators sought to determine. In the… Mon, 30 Nov 2015 02:59:24 EST Michael Schulson e586e3b0-94c9-49d0-966b-f41b85610b56 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/17/new-poll-finds-increased-xenophobic-streak-republicans-heighten-anti-muslim-rhetoric As Republican presidential candidates and governors pronounce Muslims and Syrian refugees personae non grata after the horrific massacres in Paris on Friday, a major new poll about Americans’ religious and cultural attitudes provides an ominous look at Americans’ views on… Tue, 17 Nov 2015 06:46:27 EST Sarah Posner 224ab0ba-9cbc-47ee-b70b-0abb44dfa895 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/05/problem-pews-science-religion-poll Yes, there are bad questions. Thu, 05 Nov 2015 05:21:32 EST Andrew Aghapour, Michael Schulson f74c41b7-3a7d-435a-b53a-a9ca27c67de3 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/09/lying-about-our-religion-and-other-problems-polling A review of Robert Wuthnow’s “Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s Faith.” Fri, 09 Oct 2015 07:02:40 EDT Michael Schulson a0008e7b-2e36-4007-b907-85b0318baf9e https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/07/it-ok-use-cellphone-church-pew-surveys-new-etiquette The Pew Research Center has pubished a new report on cellphone etiquette. If you’ve ever wondered whether your fellow Americans are judging you for talking on your phone in public, or checking baseball scores during a party, or texting in… Mon, 07 Sep 2015 12:18:34 EDT Michael Schulson b1a903f6-9554-477b-b1bb-3a55d711bd9d https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/24/whats-name-religious-nones-and-american-religious-landscape Over the last several years the term religious “Nones” has become a major topic of discussion and analysis by those who pay attention to religious trends. Although the term dates back at least to the 1960s, based on its current… Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:55:22 EDT Richard Flory 0307398d-6749-4960-a3fa-fc8c9627b1a4 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/16/white-supremacy-mental-illness-or-society-whats-blame-religious-violence This article is part of It’s Your Fault, The Cubit ’s series on blame in contemporary society. In this essay, RD associate editor Michael Schulson analyzes the patterns of blame that emerge in the aftermath of religious and ideological violence… Thu, 16 Jul 2015 04:16:31 EDT Michael Schulson 45eee1d1-63ce-4c30-b422-21ec0275d5c3 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/15/data-mining-denominations-same-sex-marriage-edition We’re running out of Mondays before the Supreme Court hands down its ruling on the constitutionality of marriage equality. Ahead of the expected decision, the polling firm Public Religion Research Institute released a round-up of its data, titled appropriately enough… Mon, 15 Jun 2015 05:17:46 EDT Daniel Schultz 200b66a2-88a6-4c7a-9bbb-cf381630f4fe https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/15/white-and-latino-catholics-living-different-worlds-climate-change Ahead of Pope Francis’s highly anticipated encyclical on the environment, due out Thursday, Public Religion Research Institute has found a remarkable split between Latino and white Catholics on climate change. According to data collected for the November 2014 PRRI/AAR Religion… Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:15:23 EDT Sarah Posner bf769a8b-33e4-416e-afcc-efcad27487fc