{"id":191,"date":"2011-03-11T06:46:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T06:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/03\/white-evangelicals-v-the-rest-of-us.html"},"modified":"2011-03-11T06:46:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T06:46:59","slug":"white-evangelicals-v-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/03\/white-evangelicals-v-the-rest-of-us.html","title":{"rendered":"White evangelicals v. the rest of us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pew’s latest survey<\/a> of
\nviews on Islam and violence demonstrates again the degree to which
\nwhite evangelicals stand apart from the other large religious groupings
\nin American society. The question is whether or not you think the
\n“Islamic religion is more likely than others to encourage violence.” The
\noverall numbers haven’t changed much since 2003, now showing a slight
\nplurality who don’t think so.<\/p>\n

Other than white evangelicals, the splits run from mainline Protestants,
\nwho are evenly divided, to the “unaffiliated,” who by 56-30 think that
\nIslam is not more likely to encourage violence. White Catholics fall in
\nbetween, 46-39. African-Americans are about where the unaffiliated are;
\nHispanics, where the mainliners are.)<\/p>\n

And then there are the white evangelicals, who by 60-24 go the other
\nway. They are the outliers on the spectrum, but there are a lot of them.
\nNot surprisingly, their numbers mirror those of two other demographic
\ngroups: conservative Republicans and those who “agree with the Tea
\nParty.” Just in case you were wondering what that hearing<\/a> in Washington yesterday was about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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He is co-editor of Religion by Region, an eight-volume series on religion and public life in the United States, and co-author of The American Establishment, Making Capitalism Work, and One Nation Divisible: How Regional Religious Differences Shape American Politics. 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