Perry Samuel L, Shortle Allyson F, McDaniel Eric L, Grubbs Joshua B
Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, US.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, US.
Public Opin Q. 2025 May 13;89(1):98-124. doi: 10.1093/poq/nfaf009. eCollection 2025 Spring.
Scholarship on "Christian nationalism" often frames it as antithetical to progressive politics. Yet recent studies find that historically disadvantaged racial minorities often espouse more progressive political views as Christian nationalism increases. Building on an understanding that American religion and politics are fundamentally racialized and drawing on nationally representative data from a nonprobability sample with a Christian nationalism scale incorporating ideology and self-identification, we examine how racial identity moderates the link between Christian nationalism and how much Americans identify with the terms "woke" and "progressive." Results reveal racial divergence. As Christian nationalism increases, White Americans are either no different or less likely to affirm progressive identities, while Black Americans become more likely to identify as "woke," and both Black and Hispanic Americans become more likely to identify as "progressive." Patterns are also consistent across partisan identity. Results further affirm how race moderates Christian nationalist views and demonstrate how endorsing progressive identities is differentially shaped by race and religion.
关于“基督教民族主义”的学术研究常常将其描述为与进步政治相对立。然而，最近的研究发现，随着基督教民族主义的增强，历史上处于弱势地位的少数族裔往往会支持更为进步的政治观点。基于美国的宗教和政治从根本上是种族化的这一认识，并利用来自一个包含意识形态和自我认同的基督教民族主义量表的非概率样本的全国代表性数据，我们研究了种族身份如何调节基督教民族主义与美国人对“觉醒”和“进步”这两个术语的认同程度之间的联系。结果显示出种族差异。随着基督教民族主义的增强，美国白人要么没有变化，要么更不太可能认同进步身份，而美国黑人则更有可能认同自己“觉醒”，并且美国黑人和西班牙裔美国人都更有可能认同自己“进步”。这些模式在党派身份上也具有一致性。研究结果进一步证实了种族如何调节基督教民族主义观点，并展示了支持进步身份认同是如何受到种族和宗教的不同影响的。
