Ryan Burge: Evangelical Jews, Educated Church-Goers, & other bits of dizzying data

Homebrewed Christianity

Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 105 minutes

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A couple of months ago, Ryan joined to discuss recent data on religion in America. It was a very popular episode, and members of the Homebrewed Community requested more charts! Here it is. Ryan P. Burge is an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University. Author of numerous journal articles, he is the co-founder of and a frequent contributor to Religion in Public, a forum for scholars of religion and politics to make their work accessible to a general audience. Burge is a pastor in the American Baptist Church. Previous Vists from Ryan Burge 5 Religion Graphs w/ a side of Hot Takes Myths about Religion & Politics The Charts We Discuss…(follow Ryan on twitter for more charts) Religious attendance among African-Americans. Never/Seldom attend in 2008 vs 2021, by age: 18-35: 35% -> 46% (+11) 36-44: 31% -> 45% (+14) 45-54: 23% -> 43% (+20) 55-64: 25% -> 48% (+23) 65+: 24% -> 40% (+16) pic.twitter.com/jffEBD5cM2 â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 26, 2022 This is empirically, undeniably false. This is 14 years of the Cooperative Election Study. Total sample size is 547,456. In no year are those with a college degree more likely to be religiously unaffiliated than those who stopped at a high school diploma. https://t.co/WPze6UCTjd pic.twitter.com/jI8tmSvGsd â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 24, 2022 60% of Republican Protestants self-identify as evangelical/born-again. It’s 44% of Democrats. 19% of Republican Jews ID as evangelical. 6% of Democrats. 39% vs 15% for Muslims. 25% vs 8% for Buddhists. 37% vs 11% for Hindus. pic.twitter.com/2SNOL4nVJw â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 22, 2022 The more white people attend religious services, the more likely they are to identify as politically conservative. The same is true for Black people. And Hispanic people. And Asian people. It’s hard to find a situation where greater attendance doesn’t lead to conservatism pic.twitter.com/VO6IuBE4Gy â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 7, 2022 These are the 20 largest seminaries in the United States based on headcount. One is a mainline seminary: Duke, which is affiliated with the United Methodists. 20,172 students represented here. 97% of them being trained in evangelical seminaries. pic.twitter.com/7qLfc8vdKY â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 24, 2022 Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, yeah, what is up theology nerds? This is Trip. You're listening to Homebrewed Christianity.
0:13.5	Since the year of 2008, we've been bringing you audiological goodness. Mm-hmm. That's right.
0:20.1	Interviews with scholars across the disciplines. So you can put
0:24.5	in your brain piece, probably via, I don't know, hear, earphones, and think, reflect and wrestle with some of the
0:31.6	biggest questions. And today, returning to the podcast is Ryan Burge, professor of political science, author of a number of books exploring religion in the public square, including nuns, looking at those non-religiously affiliated individuals.
0:49.6	We're back and we are looking at five different graphs of actual data about religion, including the
0:56.2	depressing future of American religious theological education, exactly how the trends of
1:02.2	secularization are playing out in black religious life in America. Why? You're more likely to
1:08.0	actually go to church regularly if you have gone to college rather than not
1:12.0	going to college at all and even more likely to go if you have a graduate degree. Isn't that wild
1:16.8	and crazy? But non as crazy is the fact that there are Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and Jews who all
1:24.6	self-identify as evangelical.
1:28.2	What's up with that?
1:32.4	Anyway, we talk about that and more, and have a good old time doing it.
1:33.7	Very glad for I to be back.
1:35.2	Definitely check out the page.
1:39.7	You can see the graphs themselves, a video where you can see them as we're talking about it,
1:41.8	and all that good stuff.
1:46.1	Before me hop in, I just want you all to know that this advent,
1:50.9	John Dominique Croson, yeah, you heard me. One of the greatest living New Testament scholars and I are doing a class, an open online class of Stonation based, including zero. We will be
1:56.3	spending the four weeks up to Jesus' birthday at Christmas, exploring the different Christmas
2:02.8	stories in scripture, the history, the text, and all kinds of good stuff. If you want to join
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