E Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 8798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3955-7549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1913 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Clergy Talk: Do Catholic Priests Discuss Immigration
Racialized Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from the General Social Survey
Research has examined differences in vaccine hesitancy by religion and by race. Complex religion theory, however, argues that research should examine these two social forces in concert with one another to understand how the religious experience is racialized. Applying this theoretical approach, we examine the interaction of religion and race in a new module for vaccine hesitancy included in the 2022 General Social Survey. We find that the associa…
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…
The Preparedness Paradox in Climate Attitudes: Democrats Worry, Republicans Prepare
Political partisanship is one of the strongest correlates of climate change attitudes in the United States, with Democrats expressing greater concern than Republicans. As the climate crisis progresses, surveys increasingly examine preparedness for environmental emergencies, instead of climate attitudes alone. Does partisan identification associate with environmental preparedness actions as it does other climate attitude measures? We find a parado…
Predictors of seasonal influenza and Covid-19 vaccination coverage among adults in Tennessee during the Covid-19 pandemic
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has convoluted hesitancy toward vaccines, including the seasonal influenza (flu) vaccine. Because of COVID-19, the flu season has become more complicated; therefore, it is important to understand all the factors influencing the uptake of these vaccines to inform intervention targets. This article assesses factors related to the uptake of influenza and COVID-19 vaccines among adults in Tennessee. Methods A cross-se…
Necessity or Luxury? Air Conditioning and Support for Utility Assistance in the Context of Climate Change
Studies of climate attitudes are increasingly concerned with support for mitigation policies such as adequate indoor cooling to address heat exposure. Air conditioning has historically been marketed as a luxury good, but polling shows Americans are evenly split in whether they consider it a necessity or a luxury. Do they support utility aid programs that would increase access to air conditioning? Results from an original survey vignette experimen…
Climate, Conflict, and Context: Reevaluating Americans’ Support for Refugees
As more people are displaced by climate change, public acceptance of migrants is an increasingly relevant geographical and political issue. How willing are Americans to accept climate migrants and how does this support compare to others who are fleeing conflict? We conducted a nationally representative survey experiment (N=1,027) with prompts that varied the context of refugee resettlement, including a control condition without context, those dis…
Mapping Racial and Ethnic Variation in Climate Belief Networks
Past research observing differences in environmental attitudes across racial and ethnic groups often mischaracterized those differences as deficits, casting environmental concern as a predominately White issue. Our study contributes to current work correcting this account by mapping substantive differences in the structure of climate attitudes across racial and ethnic groups. We use belief network analysis on 14 years of survey data from the Clim…
Rethinking Religion and Political Participation: The Case of Voting Among Religiously Unaffiliated Americans
Is civic disengagement correlated across institutions? One case of this question is a long-observed 'secular voting gap' where religiously unaffiliated Americans are less likely to vote than their affiliated counterparts. This work often uses self-reports or exit polls that cannot measure variation within the unaffiliated. Using an improved measure of validated voter turnout in four presidential election years (2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020), I find…
The Professionalization of Stigma: The Novel Case of Recovery Coaching
Research on stigma management techniques often emphasizes reducing and challenging negative associations with stigmatization. How do people manage stigma in social groups where negative associations may be socially or professionally advantageous? We answer this question with a case study of the emerging industry of “Recovery Coaching,” where firsthand experiences with drug use and recovery are part of a credentialing system that offers entry into…
Shifting or Settled? Tracking Racial Animus During Covid-19
Is racial animus sensitive to social shocks, or is it a disposition that resists change? The early COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by incidents of prejudice and discrimination against the Asian American community in the United States. We investigate whether comparable shifts in public opinion also occurred during this time using survey data fielded through 2019 and 2020. We compare changes in anti-Asian sentiment to changes in anti-Black, anti-…
The Green Elephants in the Room: Perceived Environmental Harm and Support for Regulation Among Republicans
Previous research identifies a 'great paradox' in attitudes toward environmental regulation: some people close to environmental risk nevertheless oppose environmental regulation for partisan reasons. Does this pattern hold in large survey samples? Unexpectedly, we do not find evidence for it. Instead, we find that Republicans who report higher levels of personal environmental harm also report stronger support for environmental regulation. This pa…
The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, by Ryan P. Burge
In the preface to The Nones, Ryan Burge tells us that he aims to present the best information he can about the growing group of religiously unaffiliated Americans for “denominational leaders to think about ways to respond to the rise of the nones” (p. 6). To do this well, Burge argues, they are going to need solid social facts. I support this mission; we both study the “nones” and we both value public outreach to get the facts about this group st…
Selfish or Substituting Spirituality? Clarifying the Relationship between Spiritual Practice and Political Engagement
Churches have long been sites of local charity work as well as national political movements. What happens when people engage in more individualistic forms of spirituality, like mindfulness meditation or yoga, rather than participate in religious communities? Might the rise of individualized forms of spirituality lead to a decline in political engagement? Or, among people averse to religion, might spiritual practice operate as a substitute, and po…
None of the Above: Non-Religious Identity in the US and Canada, by Joel THIESSEN and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme
None of the Above: Non-Religious Identity in the US and Canada, by JOEL THIESSEN and SARAH WILKINS-LAFLAMME None of the Above: Non-Religious Identity in the US and Canada, by JOEL THIESSEN and SARAH WILKINS-LAFLAMME. New York: New York University Press, 2020, 272 pp.; $89.00 (hardcover), $30.00 (paperback). Evan Stewart Evan Stewart University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar So…
Assessing Local “Diversity”: A Nationally Representative Analysis
The meanings and definition of “diversity” can change across different applications and contexts, but many such meanings have implications for racial difference and racial ideology in the United States. We provide a nationally representative analysis of how everyday Americans assess “diversity” in their own communities. We test how county-level racial, religious, economic, and political heterogeneity predict the view that one lives in a highly di…
The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Set against the background of mid-twentieth-century institutional changes analyzed by Jürgen Habermas, we provide an account of new social conditions that compose 'the public sphere' in the contemporary United States. First, we review recent developments in theorizing the public sphere, arguing they benefit from renewed attention to institutional changes in how that sphere operates. Second, we identify and summarize three lines of recent sociolog…
The Stakes of Symbolic Boundaries
Sociological theories of symbolic boundaries (understandings of who belongs to in-groups and out-groups) and social boundaries (material stratification) argue both are related, but empirical analyses often focus on one or the other. Using survey data from 2014, we replicate and validate earlier research describing patterns in how Americans draw symbolic boundaries against a range of minority groups. We then go beyond this work by demonstrating a …
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…
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…
From Existential to Social Understandings of Risk: Examining Gender Differences in Nonreligion
Across many social contexts, women are found to be more religious than men. Risk preference theory proposes that women are less likely than men to accept the existential risks associated with nonbelief. Building on previous critiques of this theory, we argue that the idea of risk is relevant to understanding the relationship between gender and religiosity if risk is understood not as existential, but as social. The research on existential risk fo…
Intersectionality and Power: Notes from the Editors
Atheists and Other Cultural Outsiders: Moral Boundaries and the Non-Religious in the United States
We use data from a nationally representative survey to analyze anti-atheist sentiment in the United States in 2014, replicating analyses from a decade earlier and extending them to consider the factors that foster negative sentiment toward other non-religious persons. We find that anti-atheist sentiment is strong, persistent, and driven in part by moral concerns about atheists and in part by agreement with cultural values that affirm religiosity …
Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Pediatric Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire in Two Samples of Youth with OCD
Category Interference in Translation and Picture Naming: Evidence for Asymmetric Connections Between Bilingual Memory Representations
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…
From Existential to Social Understandings of Risk: Examining Gender Differences in Nonreligion
Across many social contexts, women are found to be more religious than men. Risk preference theory proposes that women are less likely than men to accept the existential risks associated with nonbelief. Building on previous critiques of this theory, we argue that the idea of risk is relevant to understanding the relationship between gender and religiosity if risk is understood not as existential, but as social. The research on existential risk fo…
Selfish or Substituting Spirituality? Clarifying the Relationship between Spiritual Practice and Political Engagement
Churches have long been sites of local charity work as well as national political movements. What happens when people engage in more individualistic forms of spirituality, like mindfulness meditation or yoga, rather than participate in religious communities? Might the rise of individualized forms of spirituality lead to a decline in political engagement? Or, among people averse to religion, might spiritual practice operate as a substitute, and po…
The Stakes of Symbolic Boundaries
Sociological theories of symbolic boundaries (understandings of who belongs to in-groups and out-groups) and social boundaries (material stratification) argue both are related, but empirical analyses often focus on one or the other. Using survey data from 2014, we replicate and validate earlier research describing patterns in how Americans draw symbolic boundaries against a range of minority groups. We then go beyond this work by demonstrating 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…
The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Set against the background of mid-twentieth-century institutional changes analyzed by Jürgen Habermas, we provide an account of new social conditions that compose 'the public sphere' in the contemporary United States. First, we review recent developments in theorizing the public sphere, arguing they benefit from renewed attention to institutional changes in how that sphere operates. Second, we identify and summarize three lines of recent sociolog…
Rethinking Religion and Political Participation: The Case of Voting Among Religiously Unaffiliated Americans
Is civic disengagement correlated across institutions? One case of this question is a long-observed 'secular voting gap' where religiously unaffiliated Americans are less likely to vote than their affiliated counterparts. This work often uses self-reports or exit polls that cannot measure variation within the unaffiliated. Using an improved measure of validated voter turnout in four presidential election years (2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020), I find…
The Green Elephants in the Room: Perceived Environmental Harm and Support for Regulation Among Republicans
Previous research identifies a 'great paradox' in attitudes toward environmental regulation: some people close to environmental risk nevertheless oppose environmental regulation for partisan reasons. Does this pattern hold in large survey samples? Unexpectedly, we do not find evidence for it. Instead, we find that Republicans who report higher levels of personal environmental harm also report stronger support for environmental regulation. This pa…
Shifting or Settled? Tracking Racial Animus During Covid-19
Is racial animus sensitive to social shocks, or is it a disposition that resists change? The early COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by incidents of prejudice and discrimination against the Asian American community in the United States. We investigate whether comparable shifts in public opinion also occurred during this time using survey data fielded through 2019 and 2020. We compare changes in anti-Asian sentiment to changes in anti-Black, anti-…
Assessing Local “Diversity”: A Nationally Representative Analysis
The meanings and definition of “diversity” can change across different applications and contexts, but many such meanings have implications for racial difference and racial ideology in the United States. We provide a nationally representative analysis of how everyday Americans assess “diversity” in their own communities. We test how county-level racial, religious, economic, and political heterogeneity predict the view that one lives in a highly di…
Intersectionality and Power: Notes from the Editors
British Columbia in the Making
Pointing out the potential of B.C. Also: Tod lists a Toronto, Bell and Cockburn, 1913 ed. No copy located."-- Edwards, M. H., Lort, J. C. R., & Carmichael, W. J. (1975). A bibliography of British Columbia: Years of growth, 1900-1950. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 276
German and Austrian Opinion
Category Interference in Translation and Picture Naming: Evidence for Asymmetric Connections Between Bilingual Memory Representations
Atheists and Other Cultural Outsiders: Moral Boundaries and the Non-Religious in the United States
We use data from a nationally representative survey to analyze anti-atheist sentiment in the United States in 2014, replicating analyses from a decade earlier and extending them to consider the factors that foster negative sentiment toward other non-religious persons. We find that anti-atheist sentiment is strong, persistent, and driven in part by moral concerns about atheists and in part by agreement with cultural values that affirm religiosity …
Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Pediatric Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire in Two Samples of Youth with OCD
From Existential to Social Understandings of Risk: Examining Gender Differences in Nonreligion
Across many social contexts, women are found to be more religious than men. Risk preference theory proposes that women are less likely than men to accept the existential risks associated with nonbelief. Building on previous critiques of this theory, we argue that the idea of risk is relevant to understanding the relationship between gender and religiosity if risk is understood not as existential, but as social. The research on existential risk fo…
Intersectionality and Power: Notes from the Editors
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…
The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Set against the background of mid-twentieth-century institutional changes analyzed by Jürgen Habermas, we provide an account of new social conditions that compose 'the public sphere' in the contemporary United States. First, we review recent developments in theorizing the public sphere, arguing they benefit from renewed attention to institutional changes in how that sphere operates. Second, we identify and summarize three lines of recent sociolog…
The Stakes of Symbolic Boundaries
Sociological theories of symbolic boundaries (understandings of who belongs to in-groups and out-groups) and social boundaries (material stratification) argue both are related, but empirical analyses often focus on one or the other. Using survey data from 2014, we replicate and validate earlier research describing patterns in how Americans draw symbolic boundaries against a range of minority groups. We then go beyond this work by demonstrating a …
None of the Above: Non-Religious Identity in the US and Canada, by Joel THIESSEN and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme
None of the Above: Non-Religious Identity in the US and Canada, by JOEL THIESSEN and SARAH WILKINS-LAFLAMME None of the Above: Non-Religious Identity in the US and Canada, by JOEL THIESSEN and SARAH WILKINS-LAFLAMME. New York: New York University Press, 2020, 272 pp.; $89.00 (hardcover), $30.00 (paperback). Evan Stewart Evan Stewart University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar So…
Assessing Local “Diversity”: A Nationally Representative Analysis
The meanings and definition of “diversity” can change across different applications and contexts, but many such meanings have implications for racial difference and racial ideology in the United States. We provide a nationally representative analysis of how everyday Americans assess “diversity” in their own communities. We test how county-level racial, religious, economic, and political heterogeneity predict the view that one lives in a highly di…
The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, by Ryan P. Burge
In the preface to The Nones, Ryan Burge tells us that he aims to present the best information he can about the growing group of religiously unaffiliated Americans for “denominational leaders to think about ways to respond to the rise of the nones” (p. 6). To do this well, Burge argues, they are going to need solid social facts. I support this mission; we both study the “nones” and we both value public outreach to get the facts about this group st…
Selfish or Substituting Spirituality? Clarifying the Relationship between Spiritual Practice and Political Engagement
Churches have long been sites of local charity work as well as national political movements. What happens when people engage in more individualistic forms of spirituality, like mindfulness meditation or yoga, rather than participate in religious communities? Might the rise of individualized forms of spirituality lead to a decline in political engagement? Or, among people averse to religion, might spiritual practice operate as a substitute, and po…
The Professionalization of Stigma: The Novel Case of Recovery Coaching
Research on stigma management techniques often emphasizes reducing and challenging negative associations with stigmatization. How do people manage stigma in social groups where negative associations may be socially or professionally advantageous? We answer this question with a case study of the emerging industry of “Recovery Coaching,” where firsthand experiences with drug use and recovery are part of a credentialing system that offers entry into…
Shifting or Settled? Tracking Racial Animus During Covid-19
Is racial animus sensitive to social shocks, or is it a disposition that resists change? The early COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by incidents of prejudice and discrimination against the Asian American community in the United States. We investigate whether comparable shifts in public opinion also occurred during this time using survey data fielded through 2019 and 2020. We compare changes in anti-Asian sentiment to changes in anti-Black, anti-…
The Green Elephants in the Room: Perceived Environmental Harm and Support for Regulation Among Republicans
Previous research identifies a 'great paradox' in attitudes toward environmental regulation: some people close to environmental risk nevertheless oppose environmental regulation for partisan reasons. Does this pattern hold in large survey samples? Unexpectedly, we do not find evidence for it. Instead, we find that Republicans who report higher levels of personal environmental harm also report stronger support for environmental regulation. This pa…
Predictors of seasonal influenza and Covid-19 vaccination coverage among adults in Tennessee during the Covid-19 pandemic
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has convoluted hesitancy toward vaccines, including the seasonal influenza (flu) vaccine. Because of COVID-19, the flu season has become more complicated; therefore, it is important to understand all the factors influencing the uptake of these vaccines to inform intervention targets. This article assesses factors related to the uptake of influenza and COVID-19 vaccines among adults in Tennessee. Methods A cross-se…
Necessity or Luxury? Air Conditioning and Support for Utility Assistance in the Context of Climate Change
Studies of climate attitudes are increasingly concerned with support for mitigation policies such as adequate indoor cooling to address heat exposure. Air conditioning has historically been marketed as a luxury good, but polling shows Americans are evenly split in whether they consider it a necessity or a luxury. Do they support utility aid programs that would increase access to air conditioning? Results from an original survey vignette experimen…
Climate, Conflict, and Context: Reevaluating Americans’ Support for Refugees
As more people are displaced by climate change, public acceptance of migrants is an increasingly relevant geographical and political issue. How willing are Americans to accept climate migrants and how does this support compare to others who are fleeing conflict? We conducted a nationally representative survey experiment (N=1,027) with prompts that varied the context of refugee resettlement, including a control condition without context, those dis…
Mapping Racial and Ethnic Variation in Climate Belief Networks
Past research observing differences in environmental attitudes across racial and ethnic groups often mischaracterized those differences as deficits, casting environmental concern as a predominately White issue. Our study contributes to current work correcting this account by mapping substantive differences in the structure of climate attitudes across racial and ethnic groups. We use belief network analysis on 14 years of survey data from the Clim…
Rethinking Religion and Political Participation: The Case of Voting Among Religiously Unaffiliated Americans
Is civic disengagement correlated across institutions? One case of this question is a long-observed 'secular voting gap' where religiously unaffiliated Americans are less likely to vote than their affiliated counterparts. This work often uses self-reports or exit polls that cannot measure variation within the unaffiliated. Using an improved measure of validated voter turnout in four presidential election years (2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020), I find…
Clergy Talk: Do Catholic Priests Discuss Immigration
Racialized Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from the General Social Survey
Research has examined differences in vaccine hesitancy by religion and by race. Complex religion theory, however, argues that research should examine these two social forces in concert with one another to understand how the religious experience is racialized. Applying this theoretical approach, we examine the interaction of religion and race in a new module for vaccine hesitancy included in the 2022 General Social Survey. We find that the associa…
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