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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would love to check this out, but I don’t think I’d fit in if I went. Thanks for the shout out!

Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sure! Data collection was provided by Cint in Sept/Oct 2025. N~3300. We used weights to bring the sample in line with 2024 census estimates. Happy to answer other questions!

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Grateful to @prri.org (Public Religion Research Institute) for this opportunity, and looking forward to the work ahead alongside such a talented group of fellows. Check out the full cohort here: prri.org/current-publ...

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excited to share that I've been named a PRRI Public Fellow! I'll be joining a cohort of scholars working to translate research into insights that matter for public understanding and discourse.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Here's a story about the peer review system working as intended -- thoughtful questions from a reviewer led to an unexpected but important finding. (w/ @pauldjupe.bsky.social )

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Awesome- love to hear about it sometime!

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My career has been fundamentally transformed by the mentorship I've received. The APSA Religion and Politics section has revamped its mentorship program with the aim of propelling a junior scholar's project to completion. Interested mentees can check it out at: connect.apsanet.org/s11/mentoring/

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It’s always exciting to see great social science from @pauldjupe.bsky.social shared with the wider world. This piece also taught me a bit about my own neck of the woods!

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Identity and worldview strongly go together (corr ≈ .65): those who identify as Christian nationalists score much higher on the worldview scale. Bigger takeaway: we can watch a new political identity crystallize around older ideas—now with a label people adopt as part of who they are.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We find that Christian nationalism identity is real and not rare: 23.1% say “yes” when asked if they consider themselves a Christian nationalist, and combining the items into an index suggests ~28% of Americans lean toward the identity.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In a new @poqjournal.bsky.social paper (with @pauldjupe.bsky.social, @aesokhey.bsky.social, @dhmarkel.bsky.social, we measure both: standard worldview items + a set of identity items adapted from racial identity batteries (self-ID, importance, linked fate, discrimination, group consciousness, etc.).

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

But another line of research argues it can also be an identity—a sense of self (“American Christian”) that organizes belonging, ingroups/outgroups, and group fate. Worldviews are more cognitive (what people think); identities are more affective (where people belong).

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Most research measures Christian nationalism as a worldview: agreement with items like “the federal government should declare the U.S. a Christian nation,” “advocate Christian values,” or “allow Christian prayer in public schools.”

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The term “Christian nationalism” has gone from academia to media to everyday talk. But it’s contested—and public signals are mixed (some reject the label; others embrace it). So a basic question has been hard to answer: do people actually identify as Christian nationalists?

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Paul Djupe @pauldjupe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The cw is religion cures loneliness bc it can put people FTF. But our recent data is surprising. Men who attend more are MORE lonely while attending women are less. Why? Much of the answer lies in the messaging - apocalyptic views are not conducive to connection. w @brooklynwalker.bsky.social

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The Religious are More Lonely?

Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker The conventional wisdom about religious congregations is that they are social places, where people can find opportunities for mutual support to ease the existentia…

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

In the religion and politics space, we are seeing calls to repeal the 19th Amendment. @pauldjupe.bsky.social and I have been collecting data about that, and it looks like younger Americans are the most open to that argument.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Even with a worldview that supposedly produces tradwives, men and women are not on the same page. Complementarian men like the idea of a partner fully devoted to submission. Complementarian women living that reality are less charmed by it. Full post: religioninpublic.blog/2026/06/17/w...

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Who Likes Tradwives?

By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker Have you read Yesteryear by Caro Burke yet? What are you waiting for? Drawing on themes from real-world tradwives like Ballerina Farm, the book follows an evang…

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

One more wrinkle: having kids changes everything. Without kids, complementarianism predicts tradwife warmth equally for men and women. But complementarian mothers actually cool slightly on tradwives once they have kids. Complementarian fathers warm up further, 13 points above mothers.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

So what are complementarian men responding to? Not the sourdough or linen aprons, probably. Hostile sexism -- the view that women are scheming and need to be controlled -- tracks almost as closely with tradwife warmth as complementarianism does. Submission seems to be the appeal, not the lifestyle.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Complementarianism -- the belief that men lead and women submit -- is the worldview underneath the tradwife aesthetic. And warmth toward tradwives does rise with complementarianism, but only for men.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The gender split matters. Men rate tradwives slightly higher than women (39 vs 33), but neither group is particularly enthusiastic. A lot of those scores cluster at 50, which can substitute for 'I don't know'.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

On a 0-100 feeling thermometer, Americans rate tradwives a chilly 36 degrees on average. For comparison: feminists score 48. Men's rights advocates score 50. Tradwives are colder than both.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Tradwives are everywhere on social media. So we asked a national sample of Americans how they actually feel about them. The answer surprised us. 🧵 w/ @pauldjupe.bsky.social

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thanks for covering this important issue. @pauldjupe.bsky.social and I have been collecting data on support for repealing the 19th, and I was surprised to see the idea has gained traction. We've published some early results here: religioninpublic.blog/2025/10/21/t...

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is important because Paul and I's work also shows that Christian nationalism shapes attitudes similarly on non-racialized issues. Efforts to address any anti-democratic impulses embedded within Christian nationalism have to start from a clear-eyed understanding of its constituency and appeal.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

@pauldjupe.bsky.social and I argue that Woodruff's work illustrates the appeal of Christian nationalism across racial lines. Our data shows that regardless of how you measure Christian nationalism, support is not uniquely concentrated among White respondents.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The piece quotes Robert Jeffress embracing the 'Christian nationalist' label, but the most interesting takeaway was who got interviewed. Woodruff spoke with both White and non-White attendees, many of whom repeated "America must be a Christian nation" and "Christians are under assault" arguments.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Judy Woodruff for @pbsnews.org recently covered "Rededicate 250." A new post at Religion in Public looks at why this journalism was so important.

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Paul Djupe @pauldjupe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There's so much chatter about the sin of empathy and toxic empathy, mostly aimed at women. We asked a few Qs about empathy, courtesy of @verasight.io - thanks! People are of two minds that mirrors the debate. Empathy is good but only if it doesn't contradict "truth." And there's a gender gap (1/2).

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Why The Right Wing Freakout about Empathy?

By Brooklyn Walker and Paul A. Djupe [Image credit: Empathy is the new Christian battleground : r/Christianity] Empathy is sin. Or so goes the thesis of several highly popular books by conservative…

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The political logic is straightforward: white evangelicalism is shrinking. Blocking any "trapdoor" — including empathy, kindness, tolerance — that might allow voters to moderate is an electoral strategy as much as a theological one.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The same pattern holds when we use apocalypticism instead of Christian nationalism — the sense that the final battle between good and evil is upon us nullifies pro-social religious beliefs, including empathy. Threat closes people off to the suffering of others.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

And who's to blame? Women. Joe Rigney argues directly that empathy's destructive power in modern life comes from feminism — that women's God-given empathy has been weaponized to hijack religious and political institutions. The anti-empathy movement is also an anti-feminist movement.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Why is empathy a target? Conservative Christian leaders are explicit -- empathy is how the Left gets Christians to support 'woke' causes. In their framing, empathy isn't a virtue. It's a trojan horse.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Nearly half of ardent Christian nationalist men believe empathy in public life has done more harm than good. The anti-empathy message has a genuine foothold -- not a majority, but a substantial segment of the population.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Among ardent Christian nationalist men, 95% say truth is more important than empathy. Among men who strongly oppose Christian nationalism, it's 46%. That's a big chasm. The pattern holds for women, too, but at lower levels.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Good news first: 75% of Americans agree empathy is a moral good. The complicated news: 55% also agree that truth is more important than empathy. These two views coexist until Christian nationalism enters the picture.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"Empathy is sin." That's the thesis of several popular conservative Christian books right now. We wanted to know: is this just elite rhetoric, or has it reached the pews? We have data. 🧵 w/ @pauldjupe.bsky.social

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I was VERY nervous for my first podcast, but it turned out to be a great conversation with the thoughtful hosts at @faithfulpolitics.bsky.social and my co-author, @pauldjupe.bsky.social . Tune in to hear a chat about Christian nationalism, threat, and possible paths to more healthy politics.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The takeaway: if you want to understand where reproductive rights restrictions are coming from, party and religiosity alone aren't enough. The theological worldview underneath matters — and complementarianism is that worldview.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The policy implications are direct. Complementarianism is the strongest predictor of support for banning birth control, restricting abortion at every stage of pregnancy, and banning women from traveling to other states to obtain abortion care. And these effects hold for both men and women.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This isn't simply sexism by another name. We measured both benevolent and hostile sexism alongside complementarianism. Complementarianism has a substantially stronger relationship to reproductive rights attitudes than either form of secular sexism.

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Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

But it's not just about having more children. Even after controlling for a general preference for more births, complementarianism predicts preferences for certain kinds of children -- namely White and Christian ones.

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