Eric Leon McDaniel

Eric Leon McDaniel
University of Texas at Austin | UT · Department of Government

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Background Americans who believe government policies should bolster religion's influence tend to favor rigid in‐group/out‐group distinctions and hierarchies. Yet given that religious and political views are fundamentally racialized, we theorize racial identity moderates the link between favoring government‐supported religion and views toward politi...
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What is causing the American public to move more openly into alt-right terrain? What explains the uptick in anti-immigrant hysteria, isolationism, and an increasing willingness to support alternatives to democratic governance? The Everyday Crusade provides an answer. The book points to American Religious Exceptionalism (ARE), a widely held religiou...
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What is causing the American public to move more openly into alt-right terrain? What explains the uptick in anti-immigrant hysteria, isolationism, and an increasing willingness to support alternatives to democratic governance? The Everyday Crusade provides an answer. The book points to American Religious Exceptionalism (ARE), a widely held religiou...
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Chapter 7 brings religious and racial minorities to the forefront by investigating the relationship between adherence to American religious exceptionalism and the attitudes of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOCs) and non-Christians. The premise of this chapter is that racial and religious minorities have been the victims of those championing...
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Chapter 2 introduces and validates the authors’ measurement of their main theoretical concept, American religious exceptionalism. It provides a detailed portrayal of who adheres to American religious exceptionalism, the “disciples,” by juxtaposing their various religious identities, beliefs, and behaviors to American religious exceptionalism’s “dis...
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Chapter 5 moves the focus from comparing American religious exceptionalism’s disciples and dissidents on their views of who and what the nation should be defined as, to how the nation should engage the world. The chapter begins with a discussion of the role of American religious exceptionalism in American grand strategy and how this myth influenced...
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Chapter 4 examines how American religious exceptionalism shapes citizens’ hostile views toward immigrants, and their restrictive immigrant admission and immigration policy preferences. It provides a brief history of American immigration policy and how religion and nationalism have influenced national narratives about who is worthy of becoming an Am...
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Chapter 1 frames the main empirical question of The Everyday Crusade. By explaining the importance of myth in nation-making and the role of these myths in establishing American nationalism, this chapter explores how the religiously nationalistic ideology of American religious exceptionalism developed and embedded itself in American political and so...
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Chapter 3 offers an empirical examination of how adherence to American religious exceptionalism influences national identity attachments. Empirical analyses show how adherence to American religious exceptionalism promotes national devotion and shapes citizens’ perceptions of the “ideal American.” Statistical evidence corroborates the main theoretic...
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What is causing the American public to move more openly into alt-right terrain? What explains the uptick in anti-immigrant hysteria, isolationism, and an increasing willingness to support alternatives to democratic governance? The Everyday Crusade provides an answer. The book points to American Religious Exceptionalism (ARE), a widely held religiou...
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Chapter 6 indexes the influence of American religious exceptionalism on domestic matters. The authors speak of the vast attention paid to the role of Christian nationalists in the 2016 election and the policies of the Trump administration, by investigating how adherence to American religious exceptionalism explains the willingness to entertain illi...
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Integral to the development of group consciousness is the establishment of independent entities, which allow individuals to develop a common identity and solidarity. In the case of African Americans, the black church has facilitated racial group consciousness by bringing blacks together and advocating a belief system that emphasizes justice and com...
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Most research on the social gospel, a religious interpretation that obliges people to care for the less fortunate and correct social inequalities, has focused on elite rhetoric. However, it is not clear the extent to which members of the public also adhere to this socioreligious philosophy. The moralistic tone of the 2010 health care reform debate...
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Scholars argue that the Black church produces religious messages that foster racial cohesion; however, recent examinations of Black religion note the heterogeneity of the messages and beliefs advanced by Black churches. Several argue that this heterogeneity in Black religious beliefs is reflected in Black political beliefs. This study examines the...
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Through measures of orthodoxy, images of God, and instrumental beliefs, scholars of the social scientific study of religion have been able to demonstrate how abstract and specific religious beliefs influence political and social attitudes. Building upon this work, this article uses a unique data set to measure social and prosperity gospel support....
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The attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 and subsequent military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq created a sharp increase in expressions of national pride and the invocation of “nation” in political discourse. Using the 1996 and 2004 General Social Surveys, we document these changing patterns of national pride, and ask how they aff...
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This entry outlines bounded rationality and shows its relevance for the study of race and ethnic politics.
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A Conversation Starter - American Grace: How Religion Divides And Unites Us. By PutnamRobert D. and CampbellDavid E.. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. 673 pp. $39.95 cloth. - Volume 4 Issue 2 - Eric L. McDaniel
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Does public support for government action and intervention on a health condition or epidemic depend on whom the public thinks if most vulnerable? Using a unique set of embedded experiments, we test two treatment dimensions of public support: who is affected (children or elderly; Whites or African Americans); what the illness is (diabetes, depressio...
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How does religion affect one's attitudes toward immigrants? Scholars have shown that members of minor religious groups are less anti-immigrant than members of majority affiliations and that Evangelical Protestants are partic-ularly hostile. Other scholars have demonstrated that increased religiosity reduces immigrant animus. Here, we argue that rel...
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Recently, the Republican Party has attempted to attract the Black vote by appealing to religious values. Blacks, being highly religious, would appear to be a receptive group for such a strategy. However, this appeal has been unsuccessful. This failure goes beyond the political sphere, as the Religious Right has also tried but failed to bring Blacks...
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The Republican Party has aggressively attempted to recruit black and Latino Evangelicals; however, the success of these efforts has been questioned. The authors argue that the GOP's diminished success in recruiting these groups, compared to Anglos, is based on differing religious worldviews. Using data that allow them to track partisanship over two...
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"Politics in the Pews probes the internal dynamics of political decision making within the Black church." ---William E. Nelson, Jr., Research Professor, Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University As Eric McDaniel demonstrates in his study of Black congregations in the U.S., a church's activism results from complex neg...
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In the months leading up to the 2004 presidential election the airwaves were saturated with commentators predicting that the contest would be decided by so-called values voters, many of whom were expected to turn out in droves to cast their ballots for George W. Bush. To most, values voters implied evangelical Christians, but much was also made of...
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The importance of the political church in Black political participation has brought to the attention of scholars the differences among Black churches and their effect on Black mobilization. The Black church has on many occasions transformed itself into a politicized organization. These political churches become settings that encourage political kno...
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Following the end of the Civil War, the black church emerged as the dominant institution within black communities. Not only was the church central in the lives of African Americans, but it became the "womb of black culture" and mothered other major social institutions as well. It is difficult to underestimate the historical importance of black chur...
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The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is the youngest and most theologically orthodox of all the historically black Christian denominations, and it is quickly becoming the largest of the black Protestant church groups. The denomination differs from the black Baptists and AME blacks both historically and theologically; it was not created out of racial...
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Using survey data collected on African Methodist Episcopal and Church of God in Christ clergy, this article finds that black clergy are strongly supportive of their roles as community leaders. However, there are differences along denominational lines in terms of how they interpret their role, in their policy preferences, and in their activities bot...

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