Date: Friday, November 22, 2024; 12:00-1:30 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston Univ., 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room)

Developing a Multidimensional Measure of Christian Nationalism in the United States

Presenter: Callid Keefe-Perry, Assistant Professor of Public Theology, Boston College

Abstract: Christian Nationalism (CN) has emerged as a significant force in contemporary American society, shaping public discourse, political agendas, and cultural conflicts. Existing measures of CN,such as the six-question Likertscale used by Whitehead & Perry and the Public Religion Research Institute/Brookingssurvey, often lack the nuance needed to fully capture its complexity and varied manifestations. As a scholar of religion and politics, I propose to develop a new measure of CN that addressesthese limitations and provides a more nuanced understanding of this phenomenon. Building on critiques raised by Li & Froese (2023), Smith & Adler (2022), and Davis(2022), my research aims to create the Multidimensional Measure of Christian Nationalism (MMCN), which captures the ideological, identity-based, and cultural framework aspects of CN while accounting for varying levels of commitment among different subgroups.

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