The Evangelical Crackup?: The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition (Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics)

Explores a crucial question in American national politics: How durable is the close connection between the GOP and the evangelical movement? Contents Acknowledgments Introduction / Paul A. Djupe and Ryan L. Claassen Part I. A ctivists, Candidates, and the Partisanship of Evangelicals 1. Evangelicals Were on Their Own in the 2016 Elections / Paul A. Djupe and Brian R. Calfano 2. Evangelical Activists in the GOP: Still the Life of the Party? / Geoffrey Layman and Mark Brockway 3. Understanding the Political Motivations of Evangelical Voters / Ryan L. Claassen 4. The GOP, Evangelical Elites, and the Challenge of Pluralism / Kevin R. den Dulk 5. Divided over Rights: Competing Evangelical Visions for Twenty-First-Century America / Andrew R. Lewis 6. Rethinking the State-Level Strategy: The Christian Right and Left in the States / Kimberly H. Conger Part II. Religious Change and the Politics of Evangelicals 7. Organizational Divisions within the Evangelical Tradition / J. Tobin Grant and David Searcy 8. Subcultural Identity and the Evangelical Left: Comparing Liberal Young Evangelicals to Other Young Liberals / Jeremiah J. Castle 9. The Rise of Latino Evangelicals / J. Benjamin Taylor, Sarah Allen Gershon, and Adrian D. Pantoja 10. We Find Truth by Talking: Comparing Authority in Evangelicalism and the Emergent Church / Ryan P. Burge 11. The Political Networks of Evangelicals, 1992–2016 / Paul A. Djupe, Jacob R. Neiheisel, and Anand E. Sokhey 12. Sowing the Seeds of Discord? Social Sources of Division among White Evangelical Protestants / Daniel A. Cox, Paul A. Djupe, Robert P. Jones, and Juhem Navarro-Rivera Part III. Legal, Constitutional Battles and Morality Politics 13. Evangelicals and Local Efforts to Display “In God We Trust” / Joshua L. Mitchell and J. Tobin Grant 14. A Match Made in Heaven? Linking Christian Legal Advocacy with Conservative Politics / Daniel Bennett 15. “God Is a Pretty Fair Guy”: Evangelicalism and Economic Attitudes / Ronald J. McGauvran and Elizabeth A. Oldmixon Part IV. The Lasting Political Contributions of Evangelicalism 16. “No One Loves the Bible More Than Me”: The Ironic Continuities of Political Evangelicalism / Robert Wuthnow 17. The Evangelical Consolidation / John C. Green 18. What If . . . ? Evangelicals and the Future of American Politics / Ryan L. Claassen and Paul A. Djupe Contributors Index Why did Donald Trump attract a record number of white evangelical voters without unified support—and despite nontrivial antipathy from evangelical leaders? The editors and leading scholars that contribute to the timely volume The Evangelical Crackup? answer this question and provide a comprehensive assessment of the status of evangelicals and the Christian Right in the Republican coalition. The expected “crackup” with the Republican Party never happened. Each chapter in this cogent volume includes analyses of the 2016 election to explain why—and why that is critical. Chapters examine policy priorities, legal advocacy, and evangelical loyalty to the Republican Party; rhetoric, social networks, and evangelical elite influence; and the political implications of movements within evangelicalism, such as young evangelicals, Hispanics, and the Emergent Church movement. Contributors include: Daniel Bennett, Mark Brockway, Ryan P. Burge, Brian R. Calfano, Jeremy Castle, Kimberly Conger, Daniel A. Cox, Kevin den Dulk, Sarah Allen Gershon, Tobin Grant, Robert P. Jones, Geoffrey Layman, Andrew R. Lewis, Ronald J. McGauvran, Joshua Mitchell, Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Jacob R. Neiheisel, Elizabeth Oldmixon, Adrian D. Pantoja, David Searcy, Anand Edward Sokhey, J. Benjamin Taylor, Robert Wuthnow, and the editors. "Contributors in political science, public administration, journalism, and politics and religion explore evangelicals' support of Trump and the role of evangelicals in the 2016 election. Of special interest is discussion of evangelical elites and young evangelicals. Chapters are grouped in sections on the partisanship of evangelicals, religious change and the politics of evangelicals, legal and constitutional battles and morality politics, and the lasting political contributions of evangelicalism. Some specific topics include the rise of Latino evangelicals, social division among white evangelical Protestants, the political motivations of evangelical voters, young liberal evangelicals, and social insularity among evangelicals."--Provided by publisher