Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese — The Duality of American Christian Nationalism: Religious Traditionalism versus Christian Statism

36 published claims from this book.

• A high Cronbach’s alpha does not prove a scale is unidimensional.
• Anti-democratic conspiratorial tendencies newly define Christian statism, not religious traditionalism.
• Christian nationalism robustly predicts authoritarian political attitudes
• Christian nationalism splits between religious traditionalism and support for a Christian state.
• Christian nationalism splits into two ideals measured on acceptance spectrums rather than discrete classes
• Christian statism and religious traditionalism are empirically separable and diverging.
• Christian Statism and Religious Traditionalism decline in covariance across survey waves
• Christian statism and religious traditionalism predict ethno-nationalism and patriotism differently
• Christian statism but not religious traditionalism drives religious intolerance.
• Christian statism correlates with racial distrust while religious traditionalism correlates with trust.
• Christian statism dominates religious traditionalism as an empirical factor across samples.
• Christian statism explains far more variance in the CN items than religious traditionalism.
• Christian statism may surpass traditionalist religious nationalism
• Christian statism predicts anti-immigrant prejudice while religious traditionalism does not.
• Christian Statism pursues exclusive state power over cultural dominance
• Combining EFA and CFA tests both exploratory structure and confirmatory fit of CN dimensions.
• Combining exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis produces theory-driven results robust across samples
• High church attendance weakens Trump support among Christian Nationalists
• Latent class counts for Christian nationalism items are unstable across samples
• Majority-status loss prompted white conservative Christians to seek state religious favoritism
• Minority-status threat shifts white Protestants toward Christian Statism.
• Only Christian statism, not traditionalism, predicts ethno-nationalist symbolism.
• Perceived cultural decline drives Christian nationalism’s authoritarian attitudes
• Religious attendance split which facets of Christian nationalism motivated Trump support.
• Religious traditionalism predicts inclusive attitudes while Christian statism predicts exclusionary ones.
• Scales with high Cronbach-α may still conceal several distinct latent factors.
• Scholars conflate Christian nationalism with its statist variant.
• Scholars conflate distinct religious-nationalist traditions under the blanket term Christian nationalism.
• Survey items mentioning God without Jesus may capture civil religion rather than Christian nationalism
• The two Christian nationalism dimensions are diverging cognitively over time
• Treating Likert responses as interval data distorts estimates when aggregating across disparate items
• Two-aspect nationalism theory explains RT-versus-CS shift as majority-status security drives in-group versus out-group focus
• White Protestant establishment support arose as their demographic majority slipped
• White Protestants seek state favoritism as their dominance erodes.
• White Protestants shift toward state favoritism as they perceive losing religious market share
• Whites do not outscore minorities on Christian nationalism scales despite the racial-coding theory