Reading path

Religion and morality

6 chapters in reading order. A path is a way through the book that follows one question; every chapter also stands alone.

1
The god gap in America
Chapter 9.1 in Part IX, Religion and morality
The Democratic vote gap between seldom and frequent attenders rose from 5.5 points in the ANES studies of 1972 to 1988 to 21.8 points in those of 2008 to 2020 and was 27.7 points in the 2024 CES.
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The rise of the nones
Chapter 9.2 in Part IX, Religion and morality
How fast did the religiously unaffiliated grow, and how do they vote?
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Religious tradition and race
Chapter 9.3 in Part IX, Religion and morality
In 2024 white born-again Protestants voted 14.5% Democratic and Black Protestants 83.1%, and attendance relates to the vote by +9.5 points among the first and +0.8 points among the second, so the pooled attendance gap combines groups with different gaps.
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Secularization in Europe
Chapter 9.4 in Part IX, Religion and morality
Do two independent surveys agree on where European religious attendance fell?
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Two moralities
Chapter 9.5 in Part IX, Religion and morality
Which moral judgments divide left from right, and do abortion, gay rights and gender roles form one attitude dimension?
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Class, church and the two axes
Chapter 7.3 in Part VII, What left and right mean
How do income, education and church attendance sort the economic and cultural dimensions?
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