The Politics of Evangelical Identity

The Politics of Evangelical Identity: Local Churches and Partisan Divides in the United States and Canada is a book by Lydia Bean first published by Princeton University Press in 2014. A work of ethnography, the book draws on Bean's research in Evangelical communities in Canada and the United States. Bean found that the American Evangelicals she interviewed identified as highly patriotic, while Canadian congregants were more hesitant about engaging in political campaigning.[1]

The Politics of Evangelical Identity
AuthorLydia Bean
LanguageEnglish
GenreEthnography
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Publication date
August 24, 2014
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN9780691161303
OCLC891815400

In a 2016 article in The New Republic about Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and the evangelical vote, Bean stated, "Evangelicals who don’t go to church very much but identify as Christian, with Christian nationalistic rhetoric, but aren’t very well formed or advised by Christian community leaders—they’re going for Trump. I think Ted Cruz is picking up the older, more observant people who are theologically and politically conservative, the people who actually go to church every week."[2]

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  1. ^ Reviews of The Politics of Evangelical Identity:
  2. ^ Bruenig, Elizabeth (February 24, 2016). "How Ted Cruz Lost the Evangelical Vote". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved October 12, 2020.