Christian statism and religious traditionalism are empirically separable and diverging.

Evidence

According to Table 3, our findings support H1b. First, all LR-test results suggest that twofactor models are significantly better than their one-factor counterparts in terms of model fit statistics. Second, other model fit statistics for the two-factor models are good, if not always ideal, such as RMSEA, CFI, TLI, and SRMR (Kline 2016). Third, we notice that estimated covariances between the estimated effect of CS and that of RT are declining substantially in time: it drops from 0.734 in BRS 2005 to 0.539 in BRS 2021 (0.468 if in ATP 2021). This finding implies that the cognitive gap between Christian Statists and Religious Traditionalists continues to grow, particularly since the Obama administration. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 118

Categorization

• QUESTION: The covariance drop ‘particularly since the Obama administration’ suggests a period effect worth investigating — was this driven by political realignment events?
• XREF: connects to: Christian statism explains far more variance in the CN items than religious traditionalism. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 111; Christian Statism pursues exclusive state power over cultural dominance — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 44; Christian nationalism robustly predicts authoritarian political attitudes — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 45 (+2 more)

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