Event Title
The Partisan Divide: Religion, Secularism, and Geographical Segregation in the United States
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Faculty Mentor
Dr. Mark Owens
Document Type
Poster Presentation
Date of Publication
1-1-2021
Abstract
The research topic I will be focusing on will be to understand how the association of the increasing secularism and religious identity of adults positively correlate to the partisan divide in the U.S. This research is significant as it would allow us to understand if those who identify with a religious ideology can determine the political environment in which they vote. Using descriptive qualitative secondary data provided by the Wheatley Institution, a non-partisan study center at Brigham Young University, to analyze adults of different ages in the United States through structured surveys. The results indicate that religion is fading consistently, with just one-third of the U.S. population being deeply religious and the other third being strictly secular. As a result, the secularization hypothesis is supported by the fact that more explicitly moderate religion is decreasing in the United States.
Keywords
religion, secularization, partisan
Persistent Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/3018
Partisan Divide Poster PDF
The Partisan Divide: Religion, Secularism, and Geographical Segregation in the United States
The research topic I will be focusing on will be to understand how the association of the increasing secularism and religious identity of adults positively correlate to the partisan divide in the U.S. This research is significant as it would allow us to understand if those who identify with a religious ideology can determine the political environment in which they vote. Using descriptive qualitative secondary data provided by the Wheatley Institution, a non-partisan study center at Brigham Young University, to analyze adults of different ages in the United States through structured surveys. The results indicate that religion is fading consistently, with just one-third of the U.S. population being deeply religious and the other third being strictly secular. As a result, the secularization hypothesis is supported by the fact that more explicitly moderate religion is decreasing in the United States.
Comments
Dr. Mark Owens commented "This is a great presentation that brings together multiple public surveys to show political differences across religion and party. The context you use to describe that the loss of religion is not the same in all geographic areas is really interesting."