Christian statism explains far more variance in the CN items than religious traditionalism.
Evidence
The eigenvalue indicates each latent factor’s size of explained variance among indicators. CS is a much more salient factor than RT across samples. For the BRS samples, CS’s eigenvalue is bigger than one and RT’s eigenvalue is at least bigger than 0.6. For the ATP sample, both factors’ eigenvalues are bigger than one. To be cautious, we think one should not treat RT as an unimportant factor simply because its eigenvalue is smaller than one (Kaiser 1960) in BRS samples. Further inferential analysis is needed in the CFA step. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 111
Categorization
- XREF: Directly bears on the reader’s stated question of whether CN is a distinct schema or a proxy for conservatism — CS’s dominance as the stronger factor is the empirical core of that test. — connects to: Christian statism and religious traditionalism are empirically separable and diverging. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 118; Christian Statism pursues exclusive state power over cultural dominance — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 44; Christian nationalist adherence is primarily political rather than religious — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 214
- QUESTION: Wonder whether the eigenvalue asymmetry means the additive-scale CN results in the literature are really capturing state-centrism in disguise.
Related
- Christian statism dominates religious traditionalism as an empirical factor across samples. (similarity 0.91)
- Christian statism and religious traditionalism are empirically separable and diverging. (similarity 0.86)
- Scholars conflate Christian nationalism with its statist variant. (similarity 0.83)
- Christian Statism and Religious Traditionalism decline in covariance across survey waves (similarity 0.82)
- Christian Statism pursues exclusive state power over cultural dominance (similarity 0.81)
- The two Christian nationalism dimensions are diverging cognitively over time (similarity 0.81)
- Christian statism may surpass traditionalist religious nationalism (similarity 0.80)
- Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese — The Duality of American Christian Nationalism Religious Traditionalism versus Christian Statism (similarity 0.80)
- Christian statism but not religious traditionalism drives religious intolerance. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Christian Statism pursues exclusive state power over cultural dominance
#expands(0.85) — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 44 - Christian nationalist adherence is primarily political rather than religious
#corroborates(0.80) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 214