Date: November 7, 2024 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM - Location: 121 Bay State Road, First Floor, Boston University

Religion and the 2024 Presidential Election

by Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs: CURA

Keynote Speaker: Ruth Braunstein, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut

Discussant: Nancy Ammerman, Professor Emerita in the Sociology of Religion, Boston University

For the past several decades, Americans’ partisan loyalties have been deeply shaped by their racial and religious identities, with white Christians disproportionately voting Republican and everyone else disproportionately voting Democrat. As the Republican Party increasingly embraces the anti-democratic ideology of white Christian nationalism, however, Americans across the political spectrum have launched efforts to challenge partisan “super-identities,” and particularly to break the symbolic link between “religiosity” and the Republican Party. This talk will assess these efforts in light of the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.

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