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Podcast: New Books in American Politics
Episode: Sarah Diefendorf, "The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety Among White Evangelicals" (U California Press, 2023)
Description: Through two years of ethnographic fieldwork at a megachurch, sociologist Dr. Sarah Diefendorf investigates the ways in which the evangelical church is working to grow during a time in which cultural shifts are leading young people to leave religion behind. In order to expand, the church has revisited topics long understood as external threats to the organization, such as feminism, gender equality, racial inclusivity, and queer lifeātopics Diefendorf classifies as the āimagined secularā in the minds of evangelicals.The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety among White EvangelicalsĀ (University of California Press, 2023) shows, however, that the church continu...