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Essay: Understanding America’s overlooked religious middle

ROBERT P JONES, CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute, says, in an article first published by Religion News Service, that the overlooked religious middle is poised to play an outsized role in the 2024 presidential contest…

New survey finds pockets of support for Christian nationalism across US

United States RNS A new report released on Wednesday found that roughly three in 10 Americans express some sympathy for Christian nationalism, with its greatest popularity concentrated in the south-east and upper mid-west. The findings appear in a study from the Public Religion Research Institute, which probed public support for Christian nationalism as part of […]

More religious Americans support the use of political violence – poll

"Support for Political Violence in Response to Direction of the Country, by Party and Religious Affiliation"

United States RNS Support for political violence and concern over the state of American democracy are both on the rise, with 75% of Americans believing the future of democracy is at risk in the next presidential election, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution. For […]

In the US, mainline clergy are more liberal than their congregants – survey

Senior Pastor Wolfgang Herz-Lane gives a Martin Luther toy to a child during a church service.

United States RNS A new US survey of mainline clergy finds those leading the historic denominations that once shaped the American Protestant scene are far more liberal than their congregants on a host of political and social issues. The Public Religion Research Institute survey of 3,066 mainline clergy, released on Thursday, shows that about half identify with […]

Essay: Undoing the Christian nationalism of the Doctrine of Discovery

A depiction of Christoper Columbus arriving in the Americas by Gergio Deluci, circa 1893.

ANDREW WHITEHEAD, an associate professor of sociology at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis and author of the forthcoming ‘American Idolatry’, says more direct action from the Catholic Church is necessary to uproot the remnants of the doctrine…