In late January, the Pew Research Center released a study of religious nationalism worldwide, including in the U.S. The results? Only 6% of Americans fit Pew’s definition of “Christian nationalist.”
At first glance, the study’s results are drastically different than other research into Christian nationalism in the U.S. — Public Religion Research Institute reports that 30% of Americans are Christian nationalists, while sociologists Andrew Whitehead and Sam Perry found 20% of Americans strongly embrace Christian nationalist ideals according to their book Taking America Back for God.
At face value the numbers may be different, but sociologists and researchers told Sojourners that there was reason to see the various studies as cohesive, not contradictory.
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