Religious Nationalism and Perceptions of Muslims and Islam

We test for relationships between anti-Muslim attitudes and opinion and competing religious identity and religious belief variables in an evangelical Christian constituency. Original survey data from a statewide sample of 508 likely voters in Oklahoma are subjected to a robust regression analysis to...

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Published in:Politics and religion 2015-09, Vol.8 (3), p.435-457
Main Authors: Shortle, Allyson F., Gaddie, Ronald Keith
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Attitudes
Christians
Constituents
Discrimination
Evangelicalism
Identity
Islam
Muslims
Nationalism
Perceptions
Politics
Regression analysis
Religious beliefs
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Voters
Worship
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Evangelicalism
Identity
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Nationalism
Perceptions
Politics
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Religious beliefs
Religious identity
Voters
Worship
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