Brooklyn Walker
Brooklyn Walker
@brooklynwalker.bsky.social
And I thought women's suffrage was a settled question. Silly me...

Check out this latest post with @pauldjupe.bsky.social.
We've seen religious elites and social media warriors call for the end of women’s suffrage. But we don’t have a sense of how everyday Americans feel about women’s political rights.

Until now.

We preview new survey results about repeal of the 19th Amendment and adoption of a household vote.
The Coming Battle Over Women’s Suffrage
By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker [Image credit. National Women’s History Museum.] Every election cycle, millions of women cast votes. For many of them, their right to vote seems uncontroversial…
religioninpublic.blog
October 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I've been waiting for this to drop for awhile now. @pauldjupe.bsky.social, @aesokhey.bsky.social, Brian Calfano, Andy Lewis and I argue that Christian nationalism can be a flexible tool to protect group interests. Check it out @poppublicsphere.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Religion Is Sometimes Raced: Christian Nationalism as In-Group Protection | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Religion Is Sometimes Raced: Christian Nationalism as In-Group Protection
www.cambridge.org
October 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Check out my latest op-ed, which sheds = light on the story of Gen Z, gender and religion in @thehill.com. My analysis of @prri.org trend data shows that young men are not becoming more religious overtime, countering some popular narratives today.
thehill.com/opinion/cong...
thehill.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Delighted to help put this together - there’s excellent work in this collection that makes a big jump forward in religion + politics in American congregations.
Introducing the Sociological Focus Special Issue: Religion and Politics in American Congregations!

Original articles from notable scholars. Thanks to our editor in chief Khari Brown and our guest editors @pauldjupe.bsky.social and Jacob Neiheisel.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Introduction to the Special Issue: Religion and Politics in American Congregations
Published in Sociological Focus (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Hot off the presses! @pauldjupe.bsky.social and I have a new piece out @jssreligion.bsky.social that argues that Christian persecution beliefs are less racialized than previously believed. (1/4) religioninpublic.blog/2025/06/06/f...
Fellowship in the Fiery Furnace: Do Christian Persecution Narratives Transcend Racial Divides?
By Brooklyn Walker and Paul A. Djupe “Section 1. Purpose and Policy. It is the policy of the United States, and the purpose of this order, to protect the religious freedoms of Americans and end the…
religioninpublic.blog
June 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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After reading excellent reporting from @oyousef.bsky.social on NPR about the violent gender ideology behind the anti-abortion movement, we (@brooklynwalker.bsky.social + I) had to dig into our data to see whether this exists in the mass (Christian) public. 1/2

religioninpublic.blog/2025/05/16/t...
The Gender Ideology Behind Christian Nationalism and the Anti-Abortion Movement
By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker [Image credit: Tennessee Lookout] A recent story from NPR helps make the connections between extraordinarily restrictive anti-abortion policies and a broader mo…
religioninpublic.blog
May 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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It has been conventional wisdom for so long that abortion is one of a few mobilizing issues on the Right. So much so that it didn't seem worth investigating. Good thing we did (w @brooklynwalker.bsky.social). 1/3
religioninpublic.blog/2025/04/22/t...
The Moderate Abortion Politics of Christian Nationalism?
By Brooklyn Walker and Paul A. Djupe [Image credit: Georgetown Gender + Justice Initiative] Despite initially receiving ambivalent reactions, Roe v. Wade soon divided the country. Anti-abortion pol…
religioninpublic.blog
April 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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New from me & @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social at @sfjournal.bsky.social. Timely given our current economic crisis. How does Christian nationalism support plutocracy? Among the many ways is through opposing taxation for the rich. We show this using 3 national surveys. 1/ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
April 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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We gave a short survey to White Christians & asked them to pick between our govt prioritizing economic prosperity with more immigrants or reducing immigration even if it hurts prosperity.

Majorities of White Christian nationalists would tank our economy if it meant preserving the ethnic status quo.
March 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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What's the combination of education and gender that leads to the highest level of religious attendance?

It's men with graduate degrees.

That's appeared consistently in the data since 2016.
March 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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It seems like a universal experience in the social sciences to face problems with peer reviewing - it's certainly taking longer and editors report that it's hard to recruit reviewers. I've been interested in getting data on this for a decade and we just pub'd the 2nd installment. Peer review is...
March 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
While @pauldjupe.bsky.social and I are focusing on men, @melissadeckman.bsky.social has a fascinating new piece out about the decline in women's religious affiliation. religionnews.com/2025/03/07/t...
The real Gen Z religion story is about women
(RNS) — On most indicators, Gen Z men’s religious behavior has largely stayed the same in the past decade. Instead, it is Gen Z women who have moved religiously.
religionnews.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
@pauldjupe.bsky.social and I recently published a piece about Christian nationalism as a mechanism used by men to protect their sense of masculinity. If you want to read more, we've published a summary at Religion in Public: religioninpublic.blog/2025/03/10/c...
Christian Nationalism Acts as Compensation for More Feminine Men
By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker 316Tees, a leading purveyor of Christian clothing, offers several unisex t-shirts featuring American flags and phrases like “One Nation Under God” o…
religioninpublic.blog
March 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In a new piece titled 'Jesus and John Wayne Wannabes', now out at Sociology of Religion, @pauldjupe.bsky.social and I explore the role of felt gender on Christian nationalism. We find that men who describe themselves as feminine use Christian nationalism as a compensatory tool.
March 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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After release of the Pew Report last week, @brooklynwalker.bsky.social and I dig in to our data to find "The Reactionary Religious Reengagement of Young Men." It's stunning to see how distinct they are from not just younger women but older Christians too.

religioninpublic.blog/2025/03/05/t...
The Reactionary Religious Reengagement of Young Men
By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker [Image credit: Mother Jones] If there’s one thing we thought we could count on in the social scientific study of religion, it was the gender gap in religious id…
religioninpublic.blog
March 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I've been concerned that commentators have been too quick to segment Christian nationalism to just "White CN" as particularly problematic. In reaction, I've been looking at CN within other groups, even those targeted in typical CN policy. In our new piece... religioninpublic.blog/2025/02/17/i...
religioninpublic.blog
February 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Religion-and-politics folks are wrestling with what Christian nationalism actually entails. Here's my attempt to wade into that debate. religioninpublic.blog/2025/02/12/i...
Is Christian Nationalism Just a Dressed Up Authoritarianism?
By Brooklyn Walker Image Credit: St-Takla.org. It’s been less than 10 years since the concept ‘Christian nationalism’ entered the field of religion in politics, and yet a quick Google Scholar searc…
religioninpublic.blog
February 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM