Are White Evangelicals Populists? The View from the 2016 American National Election Study

The role of religion in the rise of populism is sometimes contested, but usually neglected. In this article, we consider the question of whether white American Evangelicals are part of the populist movement. Using the American National Election Study of 2016, we demonstrate that Evangelicals share a...

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Published in:The review of faith & international affairs
Main Author: Guth, James L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2019]
In: The review of faith & international affairs
RelBib Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
CH Christianity and Society
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBQ North America
KDG Free church
RH Evangelization; Christian media
Further subjects:B Internationalism
B Nationalism
B Immigration
B Populism
B Evangelicals
B Nativism
B Biblical Literalism
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Summary:The role of religion in the rise of populism is sometimes contested, but usually neglected. In this article, we consider the question of whether white American Evangelicals are part of the populist movement. Using the American National Election Study of 2016, we demonstrate that Evangelicals share almost all of the central traits of "populists" posited by observers of such movements and consider some of the implications of this finding.
ISSN:1931-7743
Contains:Enthalten in: The review of faith & international affairs
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2019.1643991