Ryan Burge: Evangelical Jews, Educated Church-Goers, & other bits of dizzying data

Homebrewed Christianity Podcast

A couple of months ago, Ryan joined to discuss recent data on religion in America. It was a very popular episode, and members of the Homebrewed Community requested more charts! Here it is.

Ryan P. Burge is an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University. Author of
numerous journal articles, he is the co-founder of and a frequent contributor to Religion in Public, a forum for scholars of religion and politics to make their work accessible to a general audience. Burge is a pastor in the American Baptist Church.

Previous Vists from Ryan Burge

• 5 Religion Graphs w/ a side of Hot Takes
• Myths about Religion & Politics

The Charts We Discuss…(follow Ryan on twitter for more charts)

Religious attendance among African-Americans.

Never/Seldom attend in 2008 vs 2021, by age:
18-35: 35% -> 46% (+11)
36-44: 31% -> 45% (+14)
45-54: 23% -> 43% (+20)
55-64: 25% -> 48% (+23)
65+: 24% -> 40% (+16) pic.twitter.com/jffEBD5cM2

— Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 26, 2022

This is empirically, undeniably false.

This is 14 years of the Cooperative Election Study. Total sample size is 547,456.

In no year are those with a college degree more likely to be religiously unaffiliated than those who stopped at a high school diploma. https://t.co/WPze6UCTjd pic.twitter.com/jI8tmSvGsd

— Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 24, 2022

60% of Republican Protestants self-identify as evangelical/born-again. It’s 44% of Democrats.

19% of Republican Jews ID as evangelical. 6% of Democrats.

39% vs 15% for Muslims.
25% vs 8% for Buddhists.
37% vs 11% for Hindus. pic.twitter.com/2SNOL4nVJw

— Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 22, 2022

The more white people attend religious services, the more likely they are to identify as politically conservative.

The same is true for Black people.

And Hispanic people.

And Asian people.

It’s hard to find a situation where greater attendance doesn’t lead to conservatism pic.twitter.com/VO6IuBE4Gy

— Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 7, 2022

These are the 20 largest seminaries in the United States based on headcount.

One is a mainline seminary: Duke, which is affiliated with the United Methodists.

20,172 students represented here. 97% of them being trained in evangelical seminaries. pic.twitter.com/7qLfc8vdKY

— Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 24, 2022

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