Jacob R. Neiheisel and Paul A. Djupe In a recent interview with Bryce Crawford–a self-described Christian evangelist and podcaster–Vice President JD Vance spoke candidly about the end times. Vance …

By Brooklyn Walker and Paul A. Djupe [Image source: Schwaninger, Adrian, Christian Wallraven, Douglas W. Cunningham, Sarah D. Chiller-Glaus. 2006. “Processing of facial identity and expression: a p…

White evangelical Protestants support Republican Party presidential candidates at rates much higher than White Catholics and White mainline Protestants. I argue that local evangelical Protestant sermo...

By Brooklyn Walker and Paul A. Djupe [Image credit: Carl Joseph Ministries] The term ‘Christian nationalism’ gained traction in academic research about a decade ago and since then has gained steam …

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…

A proliferation of religion variables presents opportunities for those studying religion and politics in the U.S. However, many studies in this growing subfield demonstrate the pitfalls of reporting t...

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…

By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker It has been 250 years since the Declaration of Independence was signed and some portions of the US are more excited than others. Judy Woodruff of PBS News went …

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…

At least since the second wave of the feminist movement, policy issues related to gender have generated deep social and political divisions. Past work has analyzed the role of general religious varia....

It does not defend religious freedom. It fuels the false persecution story at the heart of Christian nationalism.

A Q&A with political scientists Brooklyn Walker and Paul Djupe

By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker [Image credit: Mother Jones] If there’s one thing we thought we could count on in the social scientific study of religion, it was the gender gap in religious id…

A love letter to incentive structures, confidence intervals, and some intellectual humility

By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker It’s rare for scholars, public pundits, and religious leaders to catch onto the same trend-setting lingo, but we are observing one of those cases when it comes …

By Brooklyn Walker and Paul A. Djupe [Image credit: Photo taken by Kevin Mullinix, Sunday, November 17, 2024. Vintage Church, Lawrence, KS.] While the term ‘Christian nationalism’ may be relatively…

By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker A Roy’s Report story a few days ago reported on the misogynistic views of Reformed Pastor Dale Patridge of Prescott, Arizona. He is not a newcomer to urging a r…

We deserve to live until we are old

Paul A. Djupe, Jacob R. Neiheisel, and Anand E. Sokhey We need to be able to talk to each other. Not just the people we agree with, but also the people who may see things from other perspectives. W…

By Paul A. Djupe and Jacob R. Neiheisel On September 10, 2025, activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a Turning Point event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. In our view, all political vi…

By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker [Image credit: National Catholic Reporter] The selection of the new pope from the global south (as well as from the Chicago south!) sent a signal that Pope Fran…

Most Americans now see Trump as a dangerous dictator.

By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker [Image credit. National Women’s History Museum.] Every election cycle, millions of women cast votes. For many of them, their right to vote seems uncontroversial…

By Brooklyn Walker, Paul A. Djupe, Brian Calfano, Anand E. Sokhey, and Andrew R. Lewis Christian nationalism, or the idea that the United States was founded by Christians and for Christians, has be…

Abstract. Political knowledge, including knowledge of basic civics and current political conditions, is associated with a host of pro-democratic outcomes i

By Paul A. Djupe and Jacob R. Neiheisel We’re delighted to have edited a special issue of Sociological Focus about Religion and Politics in American Congregations that has just been published…

Dina Osama Lotfy, Cairo University [Cover image source Thomson Reuters; Riot policemen fire tear gas to disperse a Catholic priest and demonstrators during a protest against DRC President Joseph Ka…