Kirill Bumin

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Boston University

According to the 2022 census, around 76% of people in the Republic of Ireland identify as Christians, while 14% identify as of no religion. In this survey, we aimed to capture the Christian opinion on Jews, Israel, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The data will be compared with a similar survey conducted in the US among American Christians in...

From December 9 to 20, 2024, the Christian Attitudes Survey was conducted in the United Kingdom, with a total of 2,062 respondents interviewed. The survey targeted Christian adults online, using a non-probability sample provided by Cint Group (formerly Lucid Holdings, LLC). Samples were collected from approximately 15 panels, with natural falls in...

In this article, we aim to gauge the perspectives of Israeli Jews on core Jewish beliefs in God, the ideas of the Election of Israel, the afterlife, the advent of the messiah, and the significance of the Temple Mount at the End of Days. We conducted a survey among a representative sample of 1204 Israeli–Jewish respondents. The survey was administer...

In May 2023, we surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,121 self-identifying Jews in the United States to examine what they think about their Jewish identity, popular religious beliefs, the status of Christian-Jewish relations, and Israel. We can compare the data with other surveys (Israeli Jews (2023), Catholics (2022, 2024), and evangel...

In Christian Zionism in the Twenty-First Century authors Motti Inbari and Kirill Bumin draw on three original surveys conducted in 2018, 2020, and 2021 to explore the religious beliefs and foreign policy attitudes of evangelical and born-again Christians in the United States. They analyze the views of ordinary churchgoers and evangelical pastors to...

Christian Zionism in the Twenty-First Century: Evangelical Public Opinion on Israel explores religious beliefs and foreign policy attitudes of the largest religious movement in the United States, the evangelical and born-again Christians. This study draws on three original surveys compiled by the authors in 2018, 2020, and 2021. It analyzes the vie...

Christian Zionism in the Twenty-First Century: Evangelical Public Opinion on Israel explores religious beliefs and foreign policy attitudes of the largest religious movement in the United States, the evangelical and born-again Christians. This study draws on three original surveys compiled by the authors in 2018, 2020, and 2021. It analyzes the vie...

In this chapter, we present our first survey which was fielded in April 2018. The analysis shows that evangelical support for Israel is driven by respondents’ beliefs rooted in evangelical Christian theology and by their feeling of cultural and religious affinity with Jews, rather than geopolitical/security concerns, feelings of guilt for historica...

Christian Zionism in the Twenty-First Century: Evangelical Public Opinion on Israel explores religious beliefs and foreign policy attitudes of the largest religious movement in the United States, the evangelical and born-again Christians. This study draws on three original surveys compiled by the authors in 2018, 2020, and 2021. It analyzes the vie...

Chapter 3 analyzes data from a survey conducted in 2020 among a nationally representative sample of evangelical pastors. We show that there are significant theological and eschatological differences among evangelical pastors which are likely to have direct implications on their current foreign policy views, and especially on their support for the S...

The conclusion synthesizes our findings. One of the strongest predictors of evangelicals’ support toward Israel is age; older evangelicals strongly support Israel, while under-30 respondents repeatedly exhibited the lowest levels of support. Our survey data repeatedly show that frequent church attendance significantly increases support for Israel a...

The Introduction offers the background to understand evangelical attitudes toward Israel from a historical and theological perspective. It also introduces the surveys that are the primary source material of the book. It begins with a discussion of the roots of general American support of Israel. It reviews the religious landscape and discusses the...

In chapter 2, we show that a significant portion of the evangelicals is indeed pro-Israel, expressing higher levels of (1) confidence that the Israelis will negotiate with the Palestinians in good faith, (2) trust in Israel’s faithful execution of an agreement if one is reached with the Palestinians, (3) support for Israeli annexation of the West B...

In late March 2021, we commissioned a survey among 700 evangelical and born-again Christians under thirty. Chapter 4 discusses a significant and growing generational divide within the U.S. evangelical community. More than 4 out of 10 young evangelicals told us that their views of the Israeli–Palestinian dispute and their sympathies for Israel or Pa...

Chapter 5 seeks to understand how young evangelicals rationalize and justify their attitudes toward the Israeli–Palestinian dispute, and how they articulate those positions in their own words. Content analysis of under-30 respondents’ written comments generates some novel insights. For example, we find that religious justifications for support domi...

This unprecedented survey of a representative sample of American Catholics assesses their opinions about their Jewish neighbors, Judaism, Israel and Palestine, and Catholic Church teaching on these subjects. After comparing the survey's results with similar research on the views of evangelical Christians, the article focuses on implications for Cat...

In July 2022, we conducted a nationwide survey to study Catholics' views toward Jews, Israel, and the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute. This presentation presents some of the data

Our study seeks to understand the current levels of evangelical support for Israel, as well as how that support has changed since the recent conflict in Gaza (May 10-21, 2021). The results of our analysis highlight several important changes. Additionally, we have an unprecedented opportunity to analyze how American evangelicals feel about the end...

Change of the Guard: Young Evangelicals and Israeli-Palestinian Dispute Based on a survey conducted among 700 American evangelicals ages 18-29 in March 2021

In this study, we seek to understand the factors associated with supersessionism, a Christian doctrine which asserts that the New Covenant through Jesus Christ supersedes the Old Covenant, which was made exclusively with the Jewish people. We utilize an original survey of 1,000 evangelical pastors. This one-of-a-kind, face-to-face survey was condu...

This study considers the sources of evangelical support for Israel, utilizing an original survey of 1,000 evangelical and born-again respondents. The results show that the three strongest predictors of evangelical and born-again Christian support for Israel are (1) age (older respondents are more supportive); (2) opinion of Jews; and (3) socializat...

The Occupied Territories and the Settlements In June 1967, during the Six-Day War, Israel conquered vast territories from Egypt (the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip), Jordan (the West Bank including East Jerusalem), and Syria (the Golan Heights). The United Nations adopted Resolution 242 after the war. Since then, the international community, es...

In applying constitutional review, post-communist constitutional courts are affected by the existing political and institutional environments, as well as by their own institutional capabilities. However, our understanding of the activity of the post-communist constitutional courts remains incomplete because the existing research fails to consider h...

The existing survey research in post-communist societies focuses disproportionately on the mass citizenry and largely ignores questions about elite support for judicial institutions. This study examines business elite’s confidence in the post-communist legal systems and assesses the effects of judicial institutionalization on their perceptions. It...

Determinants of Judicial Institutionalization: A Study of the Post-Communist Constitutional Courts Kirill M. Bumin Abstract This study argues that institutional development of the courts is shaped primarily by the strategies of dominant political actors who attempt to maximize the congruence of the judiciary with their interests and its responsive...

The development of judicial viability involves a process by which constitutional courts attain institutional stability and value as an end in itself. Institutional stability denotes the courts' capacity to withstand environmental shocks, and value involves entities acquiring a distinctive mission and identity in the newly democratized governmental...