Christian nationalism splits between religious traditionalism and support for a Christian state.

Evidence

Historically, many Americans who advocated strongly for Christian values in civil society also strongly rejected a fully Christian state because the Lockean notion of religious tolerance influenced their traditional understanding of religious liberty. But this appears to be changing, with the increasing salience of a religio-political belief that the United States should become something akin to a Christian theocracy. Accordingly, the concept of religious liberty has been radicalized and now refers to the legal privilege of social conservatism. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 202

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior CN books where the same two-component split recurs; relevant to testing whether CN’s predictive power is proxy or distinct schema. — connects to: Religious attendance split which facets of Christian nationalism motivated Trump support. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 57; Christian nationalism splits into two ideals measured on acceptance spectrums rather than discrete classes — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 94; The two Christian nationalism dimensions are diverging cognitively over time — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 118
• DEFINE: Clarifies the conceptual dichotomy (traditionalism vs. statism) driving the whole chapter.

Broader Connections

• Christian nationalism splits into two ideals measured on acceptance spectrums rather than discrete classes #expands (0.92) — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 94
• The two Christian nationalism dimensions are diverging cognitively over time #expands (0.83) — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 118