Ruled by the Demons? Exploring the Relationship Between Belief in Demons and Public Attitudes Toward Donald Trump and Joe Biden

IF 1.8 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

Social Currents Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI:10.1177/23294965241228875

Fanhao Nie

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Abstract

Beliefs in supernatural evils are prevalent among many religions. Prior research has shown that beliefs in supernatural evils were tied to various social and health outcomes. However, much less is known about the political implications of beliefs in supernatural evils. To fill this research void, a national survey of 1,092 adults with oversamples of respondents of Asian or Hispanic heritage was conducted in March 2023. The findings suggest that a stronger belief in demons or evil spirits was associated with more negative views toward President Joe Biden. This demonic effect was robust even after controlling for a variety of religious and sociodemographic variables. Besides being robust, the demonic effect was the strongest among all religiosity measures. In contrast, a main relationship between a stronger belief in demons and greater support for Donald Trump was found. However, this demonic effect was explained by Christian nationalism. Finally, these demonic effects vary based on one’s political party identity.

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被恶魔统治？探索对恶魔的信仰与公众对唐纳德-特朗普和乔-拜登的态度之间的关系

对超自然邪恶的信仰在许多宗教中都很普遍。先前的研究表明，对超自然邪恶的信仰与各种社会和健康结果有关。然而，人们对超自然邪恶信仰的政治影响却知之甚少。为了填补这一研究空白，我们于 2023 年 3 月对 1092 名成年人进行了一项全国性调查，并对亚裔或西班牙裔受访者进行了超量抽样调查。调查结果表明，对恶魔或邪灵的更强烈信仰与对乔-拜登总统的更消极看法有关。即使在控制了各种宗教和社会人口变量后，这种恶魔效应仍然很稳健。除稳健性外，恶魔效应还是所有宗教信仰测量指标中最强的。相比之下，对恶魔的更强烈信仰与对唐纳德-特朗普的更大支持之间存在主要关系。然而，基督教民族主义可以解释这种恶魔效应。最后，这些恶魔效应因个人的政党身份而异。

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Social Currents SOCIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Social Currents, the official journal of the Southern Sociological Society, is a broad-ranging social science journal that focuses on cutting-edge research from all methodological and theoretical orientations with implications for national and international sociological communities. The uniqueness of Social Currents lies in its format. The front end of every issue is devoted to short, theoretical, agenda-setting contributions and brief, empirical and policy-related pieces. The back end of every issue includes standard journal articles that cover topics within specific subfields of sociology, as well as across the social sciences more broadly.