Volume 2: Ideology, values and religion
Part IX
Religion and morality
The religious line in politics runs through attendance rather than denomination, most steeply in the United States.
This part asks where religion enters politics, whether through denomination, attendance or moral attitudes. The god gap in America asks how large the political gap is between frequent and infrequent worshippers and how much of it runs through party. The planned chapters ask how fast the religiously unaffiliated grew and how they vote, how the religious gap differs across traditions, whether two independent surveys agree on where European attendance fell, and which moral judgments divide left from right and whether abortion, gay rights and gender roles form one attitude dimension.
Chapters
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The god gap in America
The Democratic vote gap between seldom and frequent attenders rose from 5.5 points in the ANES studies of 1972 to 1988 to 21.8 points in those of 2008 to 2020 and was 27.7 points in the 2024 CES.
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The rise of the nones
How fast did the religiously unaffiliated grow, and how do they vote?
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Religious tradition and race
In 2024 white born-again Protestants voted 14.5% Democratic and Black Protestants 83.1%, and attendance relates to the vote by +9.5 points among the first and +0.8 points among the second, so the pooled attendance gap combines groups with different gaps.
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Secularization in Europe
Do two independent surveys agree on where European religious attendance fell?
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Two moralities
Which moral judgments divide left from right, and do abortion, gay rights and gender roles form one attitude dimension?
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