Christian statism and religious traditionalism predict ethno-nationalism and patriotism differently

Evidence

Table 4 indicates that H2 is strongly supported by our findings. BRS 2007, 2017, and 2021 contain one or several measures on ethno-cultural criteria of American membership that social scientists repeatedly use, such as English as the established language (Citrin et al. 1990), Christian national belief and symbols (Gorski and Perry 2022; Whitehead and Perry 2020), and generic patriotic and chauvinist prides (Bonikowski and DiMaggio 2016). Our findings highlight that only CS is positively associated with ethno-nationalist symbolisms including (1) establishing English as the national language, (2) asserting that the United States has always been a Christian nation, and (3) the desire to display the national flag in religious places. We additionally find that in the BRS 2021 that both CS and RT are positively associated with a belief of America’s national supremacy. More importantly, we find that RT, rather than CS, is positively correlated with generic patriotism in the same sample. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 150

Categorization

• XREF: Directly speaks to the reader’s stated purpose: CS (Christian statism), not RT (religious traditionalism), drives ethno-nationalist symbolism, while RT correlates with generic patriotism — a cleaner dissociation between the two components than pure collinearity with conservatism would predict. — connects to: Christian nationalism predicts outgroup attitudes better than conservatism does — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 72; Christian statism may surpass traditionalist religious nationalism — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 226; Personal religious practice and Christian nationalism predict opposite political attitudes — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 458 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Christian statism may surpass traditionalist religious nationalism #corroborates (0.92) — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 226
• Christian Statism and Religious Traditionalism decline in covariance across survey waves #expands (0.90) — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 210
• Scholars conflate Christian nationalism with its statist variant. #qualifies (0.85) — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 218
• Patriotism as critical attachment can be distinguished from chauvinistic nationalism #qualifies (0.80)
• Christian nationalism predicts outgroup attitudes better than conservatism does #expands (0.78) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 72
• Personal religious practice and Christian nationalism predict opposite political attitudes #expands (0.76) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 458
• Religious commitment and Christian nationalism shape opinions in opposite directions #expands (0.75) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 101