Jack Delehanty
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Delehanty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Delehanty |
| SIGNATURE | DELEHANTY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clark University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sacred Canopies and Special Things
In the aftermath of Donald Trump's first presidential win, in 2016, analysts rushed to point out how many evangelicals ended up supporting this irreverent showman who claimed he had never done anything requiring forgiveness. The results laid bare how naïve people (including me) had been to think that conservative Christians would reject a man like Trump on principle. Instead, power and partisanship won out over piety as evangelicals not only look…
Public Religion and Gendered Attitudes
Do religious commitments hinder support for gender equality and contribute to the stalled gender revolution as a social problem? Answering this question requires specifying what kinds of religious commitments affect what specific gendered attitudes. Using a cultural approach to the study of religion, we distinguish personal religious commitments (piety and practice) from public religious commitments (preferences for religious order in social life…
Civil Religion Today
Journal Article Civil Religion Today: Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century, by Rhys H. Williams, Raymond Haberski, Jr., and Phillip Goff Get access Civil Religion Today: Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century, by Rhys H. Williams, Raymond Haberski, Jr., and Phillip Goff. New York: New York University Press, 2021, 228 pp.; $30.00. Jack Delehanty Jack Delehanty Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA jdele…
Unchurched Christian Nationalism and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Prior research found that Christian nationalism was strongly associated with voting for Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. However, the effects of Christian nationalism may depend on voters’ religiosity. Using national data, we assess whether the association between Christian nationalism and Trump support differed for churchgoers and nonchurchgoers and find that Christian nationalism is not significantly associated with Trump support a…
Social Critique as Religious Formation
For many religious Americans, the start of the twenty-first century has been a period of reflection about deepening socioeconomic inequalities and heightened racial and ethnic tensions. Yet consensus about how faith communities might respond to these problems is inhibited by an ideological divide. Since the 1970s, concerns about sexuality and reproduction have pushed many people of faith toward the Republican Party, and hence away from the politi…
Becoming “People of Faith
Interactive cultural practices such as songs and storytelling are key to contemporary social movement organizing because they can attenuate the challenges of social difference by expanding participants’ understandings of self and community. Yet the precise cultural dynamics through which such practices become effective are not well understood. Using the case of a large faith‐based community organizing coalition, I show that practices focused on p…
Christian America? Secularized Evangelical Discourse and the Boundaries of National Belonging
Many scholars argue that evangelical Christian beliefs and traditions are central to dominant conceptions of American national identity, but most empirical studies in this area focus on the activities and identities of evangelical Christians themselves. Missing is an assessment of how evangelical-infused understandings of national belonging shape the views of people outside the white evangelical subculture. We analyze how Americans of all religio…
Jesus Saved an Ex-Con”
Religion’s contributions to the politics of criminal justice and ex-offender rehabilitation have typically been conceptualized in two ways. The first way assesses religion’s role in supporting subjective self-transformation. Religious practice, identity, and especially conversion can mark a symbolic boundary between one’s former, criminal self and one’s new, reformed self, and involvement in religious organizations can provide a support system an…
Prophets and Patriots
Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide." Politics, Religion & Ideology, 20(1), pp. 139–140
Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change
The Emotional Management of Progressive Religious Mobilization
Faith-based community organizations (FBCOs) have been among the most successful U.S. civic groups in forging solidarity and collective action across social difference. Building on scholarship that emphasizes how culture can ease race and class tensions within organizations, I analyze the emotional management of structural difference in FBCOs’ organizing projects. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews within a large, diverse FBCO, I identify two emo…
The Politics of Religious Prejudice and Tolerance for Cultural Others
While some research argues that religious pluralism in the United States dampens conflict by promoting tolerance, other work documents persistent prejudice toward religious out-groups. We address this ambiguity by identifying a distinct cultural style that structures Americans’ attitudes toward religious others: support for public religious expression (PRE). Using data from a recent nationally representative survey, we find a strong and consisten…
Building a collective moral imaginary
God Hates
Rebecca Barrett-Fox's God Hates is the first book-length treatment of Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), the small, Primitive Baptist congregation founded by Fred Phelps in Topeka, Kansas, infamous for picketing military funerals in protest of US society's tolerance of homosexuality. The book has two main goals. The first is to explain why WBC engages in such deplorable public activities by describing the theological and cultural contexts of its anti…
The Politics of Religious Prejudice and Tolerance for Cultural Others
While some research argues that religious pluralism in the United States dampens conflict by promoting tolerance, other work documents persistent prejudice toward religious out-groups. We address this ambiguity by identifying a distinct cultural style that structures Americans’ attitudes toward religious others: support for public religious expression (PRE). Using data from a recent nationally representative survey, we find a strong and consisten…
Unchurched Christian Nationalism and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Prior research found that Christian nationalism was strongly associated with voting for Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. However, the effects of Christian nationalism may depend on voters’ religiosity. Using national data, we assess whether the association between Christian nationalism and Trump support differed for churchgoers and nonchurchgoers and find that Christian nationalism is not significantly associated with Trump support a…
Public Religion and Gendered Attitudes
Do religious commitments hinder support for gender equality and contribute to the stalled gender revolution as a social problem? Answering this question requires specifying what kinds of religious commitments affect what specific gendered attitudes. Using a cultural approach to the study of religion, we distinguish personal religious commitments (piety and practice) from public religious commitments (preferences for religious order in social life…
Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change
Building a collective moral imaginary
The Emotional Management of Progressive Religious Mobilization
Faith-based community organizations (FBCOs) have been among the most successful U.S. civic groups in forging solidarity and collective action across social difference. Building on scholarship that emphasizes how culture can ease race and class tensions within organizations, I analyze the emotional management of structural difference in FBCOs’ organizing projects. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews within a large, diverse FBCO, I identify two emo…
Becoming “People of Faith
Interactive cultural practices such as songs and storytelling are key to contemporary social movement organizing because they can attenuate the challenges of social difference by expanding participants’ understandings of self and community. Yet the precise cultural dynamics through which such practices become effective are not well understood. Using the case of a large faith‐based community organizing coalition, I show that practices focused on p…
Building a collective moral imaginary
God Hates
Rebecca Barrett-Fox's God Hates is the first book-length treatment of Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), the small, Primitive Baptist congregation founded by Fred Phelps in Topeka, Kansas, infamous for picketing military funerals in protest of US society's tolerance of homosexuality. The book has two main goals. The first is to explain why WBC engages in such deplorable public activities by describing the theological and cultural contexts of its anti…
The Emotional Management of Progressive Religious Mobilization
Faith-based community organizations (FBCOs) have been among the most successful U.S. civic groups in forging solidarity and collective action across social difference. Building on scholarship that emphasizes how culture can ease race and class tensions within organizations, I analyze the emotional management of structural difference in FBCOs’ organizing projects. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews within a large, diverse FBCO, I identify two emo…
The Politics of Religious Prejudice and Tolerance for Cultural Others
While some research argues that religious pluralism in the United States dampens conflict by promoting tolerance, other work documents persistent prejudice toward religious out-groups. We address this ambiguity by identifying a distinct cultural style that structures Americans’ attitudes toward religious others: support for public religious expression (PRE). Using data from a recent nationally representative survey, we find a strong and consisten…
Christian America? Secularized Evangelical Discourse and the Boundaries of National Belonging
Many scholars argue that evangelical Christian beliefs and traditions are central to dominant conceptions of American national identity, but most empirical studies in this area focus on the activities and identities of evangelical Christians themselves. Missing is an assessment of how evangelical-infused understandings of national belonging shape the views of people outside the white evangelical subculture. We analyze how Americans of all religio…
Jesus Saved an Ex-Con”
Religion’s contributions to the politics of criminal justice and ex-offender rehabilitation have typically been conceptualized in two ways. The first way assesses religion’s role in supporting subjective self-transformation. Religious practice, identity, and especially conversion can mark a symbolic boundary between one’s former, criminal self and one’s new, reformed self, and involvement in religious organizations can provide a support system an…
Prophets and Patriots
Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide." Politics, Religion & Ideology, 20(1), pp. 139–140
Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change
Social Critique as Religious Formation
For many religious Americans, the start of the twenty-first century has been a period of reflection about deepening socioeconomic inequalities and heightened racial and ethnic tensions. Yet consensus about how faith communities might respond to these problems is inhibited by an ideological divide. Since the 1970s, concerns about sexuality and reproduction have pushed many people of faith toward the Republican Party, and hence away from the politi…
Becoming “People of Faith
Interactive cultural practices such as songs and storytelling are key to contemporary social movement organizing because they can attenuate the challenges of social difference by expanding participants’ understandings of self and community. Yet the precise cultural dynamics through which such practices become effective are not well understood. Using the case of a large faith‐based community organizing coalition, I show that practices focused on p…
Unchurched Christian Nationalism and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Prior research found that Christian nationalism was strongly associated with voting for Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. However, the effects of Christian nationalism may depend on voters’ religiosity. Using national data, we assess whether the association between Christian nationalism and Trump support differed for churchgoers and nonchurchgoers and find that Christian nationalism is not significantly associated with Trump support a…
Civil Religion Today
Journal Article Civil Religion Today: Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century, by Rhys H. Williams, Raymond Haberski, Jr., and Phillip Goff Get access Civil Religion Today: Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century, by Rhys H. Williams, Raymond Haberski, Jr., and Phillip Goff. New York: New York University Press, 2021, 228 pp.; $30.00. Jack Delehanty Jack Delehanty Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA jdele…
Sacred Canopies and Special Things
In the aftermath of Donald Trump's first presidential win, in 2016, analysts rushed to point out how many evangelicals ended up supporting this irreverent showman who claimed he had never done anything requiring forgiveness. The results laid bare how naïve people (including me) had been to think that conservative Christians would reject a man like Trump on principle. Instead, power and partisanship won out over piety as evangelicals not only look…
Public Religion and Gendered Attitudes
Do religious commitments hinder support for gender equality and contribute to the stalled gender revolution as a social problem? Answering this question requires specifying what kinds of religious commitments affect what specific gendered attitudes. Using a cultural approach to the study of religion, we distinguish personal religious commitments (piety and practice) from public religious commitments (preferences for religious order in social life…
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