Published Research
Report | Religious Voters and California’s Proposition 8
[12.23.2008]In the November 2008 election, California voters narrowly supported Proposition 8 (52% to 48%), which repealed an existing California law allowing marriage between same-sex couples by amending the state constitution to restrict marriage to heterosexual couples. The role of religion in that vote has been the subject of much interest and debate, but solid data on religion has been scattered. This memo gathers religious data from both the National Election… more
Presentation | Recent Authors Discuss Religion and the Election
[11.01.2008]Citation Robert P. Jones, Invited Panelist, “Recent Authors Discuss Religion and the Election,” American Academy of Religion, Chicago, November 1, 2008.
Book | Progressive and Religious: How Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist Leaders are Moving Beyond the Culture Wars and Transforming American Public Life
[09.30.2008]Synopsis In recent years, Americans have become frustrated with the troubled relationship between religion and politics: an exclusive claim on faith and values from the right and a radical divorce of faith from politics on the left. Now a new generation of religious leaders is re-envisioning religion in public life, leading grassroots movements to go beyond partisan politics to work for a more just and inclusive society. Progressive & Religious tells the dynamic… more
Survey | Southern White Evangelicals on Torture
[09.11.2008]Poll of White Evangelicals Shows Faith, Golden Rule Influence Attitudes on Torture A new poll commissioned by Faith in Public Life and Mercer University and conducted by Public Religion Research demonstrates the conflicted attitudes on torture among white evangelical Christians in the South. Close to six-in-ten white evangelicals in the South say that torture can be often (20%) or sometimes (37%) justified in order to gain important information. This compares… more
Book | Liberalism’s Troubled Search for Equality: Religion and Cultural Bias in the Oregon Debates over Physician-Assisted Suicide
[01.31.2007]Synopsis In Liberalism’s Troubled Search for Equality, Robert P. Jones presents a penetrating examination of physician-assisted suicide that exposes unresolved tensions deep within liberal political theory. Jones asks why egalitarian liberal philosophers—most notably, Ronald Dworkin and John Rawls—support legalized physician-assisted suicide in direct opposition to groups of disadvantaged citizens they theoretically champion. Jones argues that egalitarian liberals ought to oppose physician-assisted suicide—at least until we find the political will to ensure… more
Article | The Unintended Consequences of Dixieland Postliberalism
[01.01.2006]Introduction Postliberalism, as the name implies, is a critique worked out in relationship to a presumably waning dominant world view. Its rhetorical power and its concepts depend on the reality of liberalism as a prevailing social and cultural reality and common assumptions about the nature of liberalism. But what happens when a critique crafted for one context (northeastern liberal Protestantism) is adopted by others in a different context (white Southern Evangelicalism)? In this article… more
Presentation | New Developments at the Interface of Religion and Politics
[10.28.2005]Citation Robert P. Jones, “New Developments at the Interface of Religion and Politics,” Faith as a Way of Life Program, Yale Center for Faith and Culture at Yale Divinity School, Washington, DC, October 28, 2005.