Rethinking Religion and Political Participation: The Case of Voting Among Religiously Unaffiliated Americans

IF 2.4 1区哲学 0 RELIGION

Sociology of Religion Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1093/socrel/srad018

Evan Stewart

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Abstract

Abstract Is civic disengagement correlated across institutions? One case of this question is a long-observed “secular voting gap” where religiously unaffiliated Americans are less likely to vote than their affiliated counterparts. This work often uses self-reports or exit polls that cannot measure variation within the unaffiliated. Using an improved measure of validated voter turnout in four presidential election years (2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020), I find estimates of the secular voting gap are attenuated by demographic controls. More importantly, the mechanism that explains this finding is that more frequent church attendance associates with a lower probability of turnout among respondents who are unaffiliated, and results vary by voting method. These results support a theory of civic disengagement as a domain-specific process and demonstrate the substantive value of revisiting classic findings about religion and political behavior amid social change.

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重新思考宗教与政治参与:无宗教信仰的美国人投票的案例

公民脱离在不同制度下是否相关?这个问题的一个例子是长期观察到的“世俗投票差距”，即无宗教信仰的美国人比有宗教信仰的美国人更不可能投票。这项工作通常使用自我报告或出口民意调查，无法衡量无党派人士的变化。通过对四个总统选举年(2008年、2012年、2016年和2020年)的有效选民投票率进行改进，我发现对长期投票差距的估计因人口控制而减弱。更重要的是，解释这一发现的机制是，更频繁的教堂活动与无宗教信仰的受访者投票率较低有关，而且结果因投票方式而异。这些结果支持了公民脱离参与作为一个特定领域过程的理论，并证明了在社会变革中重新审视关于宗教和政治行为的经典发现的实质性价值。

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期刊介绍： Sociology of Religion, the official journal of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, is published quarterly for the purpose of advancing scholarship in the sociological study of religion. The journal publishes original (not previously published) work of exceptional quality and interest without regard to substantive focus, theoretical orientation, or methodological approach. Although theoretically ambitious, empirically grounded articles are the core of what we publish, we also welcome agenda setting essays, comments on previously published works, critical reflections on the research act, and interventions into substantive areas or theoretical debates intended to push the field ahead. Sociology of Religion has published work by renowned scholars from Nancy Ammerman to Robert Wuthnow. Robert Bellah, Niklas Luhmann, Talcott Parsons, and Pitirim Sorokin all published in the pages of this journal. More recently, articles published in Sociology of Religion have won the ASA Religion Section’s Distinguished Article Award (Rhys Williams in 2000) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s Distinguished Article Award (Matthew Lawson in 2000 and Fred Kniss in 1998). Building on this legacy, Sociology of Religion aspires to be the premier English-language publication for sociological scholarship on religion and an essential source for agenda-setting work in the field.