Kevin R Den Dulk
Biographic Data
| ID | 315684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin R Den Dulk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin R Den |
| FAMILY NAME | Dulk |
| SIGNATURE | DULK K R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grand Valley State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4367-7057 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Clinging to Guns and Religion? A Research Note Testing the Role of Protestantism in Shaping Gun Identity in the United States
How does social identity shape Protestant attitudes about guns in the United States? Numerous studies show that religion shapes attitudes about guns, but the role of Protestantism in forming those attitudes is undertheorized and undertested. We draw from the extensive literature on religion-as-identity and the burgeoning literature of gun-ownership-as-identity to test the theory about the role of Protestant religion in cultivating a gun identity.…
Taxing the Church
Edward Zelinsky’s Taxing the Church reminds us that the tax relationship between houses of worship and government is far more complex than the conventional language of “separation of church and state” would suggest. (I will follow Zelinsky’s lead in using “church” as a synonym for “houses of worship” in this review.) Much of that complexity is a product of the dispersed powers of government and the murkiness of what counts as “religious.” While t…
Looking Within or Reaching Out
The proliferation of school choice policies has expanded schooling options for parents. While this trend coincides with a decline in private school enrollment, it is unclear how these policies affect enrollment among various religious traditions and religiosity. We study the impact of religion and school choice initiatives on the decision to enroll in different types of private schools in this new era. We evaluate two concurrent theories on the r…
Christianity in Chinese Public Life
This book analyzes the interaction of religion, society, and governance in China - suggesting it is much more subtle and complex than common convention suggests. The edited work addresses civic engage
Mediating Religion and Government
The study of religion and politics is a strongly behavioral sub-discipline, and within the American context, scholars place tremendous emphasis on its influence on political attitudes and behaviors, r
Religion, Volunteering, and Educational Setting
Research on civic engagement shows that volunteering rates decline as young people move from adolescence into emerging adulthood. Using panel data spanning this period of the life course, we examine the impact of secondary schooling type-public, Catholic, Protestant, private nonreligious, and homeschool-on sustaining volunteering into emerging adulthood. We apply a framework that posits pathways between secondary schooling and sets of opportuniti…
George W. Bush, Religion, and Foreign Policy
In public discourse on international affairs, George W. Bush often utilized religious imagery in his rhetoric. But the role of religion in shaping foreign policy during the Bush administration was dynamic, contentious, and varied. Bush experienced a religious transformation in the 1980s, and his faith convictions played an important role in garnering support of evangelicals during campaigns, and to a lesser extent in shaping his policy positions.…
Evangelical Elites and Faith-Based Foreign Affairs
Values-based concerns motivated evangelicals during President Bush's first term to advance a “faith-based” foreign policy agenda, producing similar mixed results as their domestic priorities. Evangelicals reject isolationism in favor of a global butoften unilateralist foreign policy motivated by theological convictions and aided byincreasing strategic sophistication. However, evangelical elites are not monolithic in their understanding of interna…
Christian Conservatives Go to Court
The American exceptionalism thesis holds that American political culture produces an unusually litigious society. The US Christian right has participated in litigation, especially in constitutional rights cases dealing with issues such as religious schools and abortion. However, since 1982 Canada has had a constitutional Charter of Rights and an increasingly active Christian right of its own. We compare data on Christian right involvement in educ…
Bridging the Lawmaking Process
Lawmaking in a separated system occurs through stages of development across institutions, and policy ideas change as they pass through these stages. But under what conditions will institutions interact? This article suggests that one explanation for Court-Congress interaction is the influence of organized groups. By mobilizing the law, groups serve as an organized "bridge" between the judicial and legislative arenas by providing information to bo…
Proposing a Dissertation with a Free Rein
Any Ph.D. knows that developing a basic statement of dissertation ideas rarely begins or ends with the formal proposal. In a sense dissertators never stop “proposing.” Throughout the process of data gathering and writing, they must make sense of new ideas and information, contend with theoretical and empirical dead ends, address the suggestions (or demands!) of advisors and committees. Nevertheless, the aspiring Ph.D. must start somewhere, and fi…
Religion, Volunteering, and Educational Setting
Research on civic engagement shows that volunteering rates decline as young people move from adolescence into emerging adulthood. Using panel data spanning this period of the life course, we examine the impact of secondary schooling type-public, Catholic, Protestant, private nonreligious, and homeschool-on sustaining volunteering into emerging adulthood. We apply a framework that posits pathways between secondary schooling and sets of opportuniti…
Christian Conservatives Go to Court
The American exceptionalism thesis holds that American political culture produces an unusually litigious society. The US Christian right has participated in litigation, especially in constitutional rights cases dealing with issues such as religious schools and abortion. However, since 1982 Canada has had a constitutional Charter of Rights and an increasingly active Christian right of its own. We compare data on Christian right involvement in educ…
George W. Bush, Religion, and Foreign Policy
In public discourse on international affairs, George W. Bush often utilized religious imagery in his rhetoric. But the role of religion in shaping foreign policy during the Bush administration was dynamic, contentious, and varied. Bush experienced a religious transformation in the 1980s, and his faith convictions played an important role in garnering support of evangelicals during campaigns, and to a lesser extent in shaping his policy positions.…
Clinging to Guns and Religion? A Research Note Testing the Role of Protestantism in Shaping Gun Identity in the United States
How does social identity shape Protestant attitudes about guns in the United States? Numerous studies show that religion shapes attitudes about guns, but the role of Protestantism in forming those attitudes is undertheorized and undertested. We draw from the extensive literature on religion-as-identity and the burgeoning literature of gun-ownership-as-identity to test the theory about the role of Protestant religion in cultivating a gun identity.…
Looking Within or Reaching Out
The proliferation of school choice policies has expanded schooling options for parents. While this trend coincides with a decline in private school enrollment, it is unclear how these policies affect enrollment among various religious traditions and religiosity. We study the impact of religion and school choice initiatives on the decision to enroll in different types of private schools in this new era. We evaluate two concurrent theories on the r…
Evangelical Elites and Faith-Based Foreign Affairs
Values-based concerns motivated evangelicals during President Bush's first term to advance a “faith-based” foreign policy agenda, producing similar mixed results as their domestic priorities. Evangelicals reject isolationism in favor of a global butoften unilateralist foreign policy motivated by theological convictions and aided byincreasing strategic sophistication. However, evangelical elites are not monolithic in their understanding of interna…
Proposing a Dissertation with a Free Rein
Any Ph.D. knows that developing a basic statement of dissertation ideas rarely begins or ends with the formal proposal. In a sense dissertators never stop “proposing.” Throughout the process of data gathering and writing, they must make sense of new ideas and information, contend with theoretical and empirical dead ends, address the suggestions (or demands!) of advisors and committees. Nevertheless, the aspiring Ph.D. must start somewhere, and fi…
Bridging the Lawmaking Process
Lawmaking in a separated system occurs through stages of development across institutions, and policy ideas change as they pass through these stages. But under what conditions will institutions interact? This article suggests that one explanation for Court-Congress interaction is the influence of organized groups. By mobilizing the law, groups serve as an organized "bridge" between the judicial and legislative arenas by providing information to bo…
Christian Conservatives Go to Court
The American exceptionalism thesis holds that American political culture produces an unusually litigious society. The US Christian right has participated in litigation, especially in constitutional rights cases dealing with issues such as religious schools and abortion. However, since 1982 Canada has had a constitutional Charter of Rights and an increasingly active Christian right of its own. We compare data on Christian right involvement in educ…
Evangelical Elites and Faith-Based Foreign Affairs
Values-based concerns motivated evangelicals during President Bush's first term to advance a “faith-based” foreign policy agenda, producing similar mixed results as their domestic priorities. Evangelicals reject isolationism in favor of a global butoften unilateralist foreign policy motivated by theological convictions and aided byincreasing strategic sophistication. However, evangelical elites are not monolithic in their understanding of interna…
George W. Bush, Religion, and Foreign Policy
In public discourse on international affairs, George W. Bush often utilized religious imagery in his rhetoric. But the role of religion in shaping foreign policy during the Bush administration was dynamic, contentious, and varied. Bush experienced a religious transformation in the 1980s, and his faith convictions played an important role in garnering support of evangelicals during campaigns, and to a lesser extent in shaping his policy positions.…
Religion, Volunteering, and Educational Setting
Research on civic engagement shows that volunteering rates decline as young people move from adolescence into emerging adulthood. Using panel data spanning this period of the life course, we examine the impact of secondary schooling type-public, Catholic, Protestant, private nonreligious, and homeschool-on sustaining volunteering into emerging adulthood. We apply a framework that posits pathways between secondary schooling and sets of opportuniti…
Christianity in Chinese Public Life
This book analyzes the interaction of religion, society, and governance in China - suggesting it is much more subtle and complex than common convention suggests. The edited work addresses civic engage
Mediating Religion and Government
The study of religion and politics is a strongly behavioral sub-discipline, and within the American context, scholars place tremendous emphasis on its influence on political attitudes and behaviors, r
Taxing the Church
Edward Zelinsky’s Taxing the Church reminds us that the tax relationship between houses of worship and government is far more complex than the conventional language of “separation of church and state” would suggest. (I will follow Zelinsky’s lead in using “church” as a synonym for “houses of worship” in this review.) Much of that complexity is a product of the dispersed powers of government and the murkiness of what counts as “religious.” While t…
Looking Within or Reaching Out
The proliferation of school choice policies has expanded schooling options for parents. While this trend coincides with a decline in private school enrollment, it is unclear how these policies affect enrollment among various religious traditions and religiosity. We study the impact of religion and school choice initiatives on the decision to enroll in different types of private schools in this new era. We evaluate two concurrent theories on the r…
Clinging to Guns and Religion? A Research Note Testing the Role of Protestantism in Shaping Gun Identity in the United States
How does social identity shape Protestant attitudes about guns in the United States? Numerous studies show that religion shapes attitudes about guns, but the role of Protestantism in forming those attitudes is undertheorized and undertested. We draw from the extensive literature on religion-as-identity and the burgeoning literature of gun-ownership-as-identity to test the theory about the role of Protestant religion in cultivating a gun identity.…
Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · Faith (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)