New preprint: "China is Not the New Rome: An Agent-Based Model Test of the Supply-Side Theory" How many Christians are in China — and how many will there be? This debate has been at an impasse. My paper tries a new approach using computational simulation. 🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/t9f7u_v1

Baylor Religion Survey Commemorates 20 Years with Wave 7 Results news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...

#ASA2025 is physically exhausting but emotionally rewarding. Though one thing I still need to improve is schedule management as mine was horrible. Safely got back to work though the flight was badly delayed. But I had a chance to explore the midnight DC metro. Hope everyone is back home smoothly

Heading to Chicago for ASA, ASR, or SSSP this weekend? Would love to connect over coffee and catch up with old friends or meet new ones! #ASA2025

New study developed from a dissertation chapter I wrestled with for years. With my PhD chair Paul, we distinguish Christian Statism (CS—often called "white Christian nationalism") from Religious traditionalism (RT). 1/6

🛐 Same God, different prayers. Drs. @lordrichie.bsky.social & Paul Froese's #Socius study maps two kinds of Christian nationalists in the U.S., each with distinct views of God and prayer. A new take on #ReligionSociology, #Identity, and #AmericanPolitics. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... after two rounds of rejection I am happy to see this paper is published with a much better quality

NEW: Spirituality and Religion: How Does the U.S. Compare With Other Countries? www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

PLEASE SHARE: We just posted an ad for TWO research assistant positions on @pewresearch.org's religion team. We expect a lot of applications so it's best to apply this week for full consideration. Come work with our great team! pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

So happy to see this paper published!

Congratulations to our own @milleridriss.bsky.social, a member of carnegiecorp.bsky.social's 2025 class of #CarnegieFellows! This distinguished group of scholars is researching the causes of political polarization and seeking ways to strengthen social cohesion and fortify our democracy.

#OpenAccess from the new issue of Politics and Religion- The sacred gun: the religious and magical elements of America's gun culture - cup.org/3EpUJPy - Paul Froese, @lordrichie.bsky.social & F. Carson Mencken

@perilresearch.bsky.social recently released our newest toolkit: BRICK for HSIs. Find out how you can use the resources and tools available for your staff, faculty, students and campus admins in promoting values specific to Hispanic-serving communities! #HigherEd perilresearch.com/resource/bri...

Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn. And it's live RIGHT NOW! psych-ds.github.io (This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)

Today, PERIL's Cynthia Miller-Idriss participated in the podcast "When The Wolves Came - Evangelicals Resisting Extremism", with Ruth Braunstein from the University of Connecticut Democracy Lab. Check it out: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Another important piece to study religion in China with solid methodology!

I could not be more thrilled to share that Bill Braniff is our new Executive Director in @perilresearch.bsky.social . Bill & I will jointly lead PERIL to bring evidence-based tools to scale & work to equip all communities with solutions to stay safe from online & offline harms. Stay tuned for more 🔥

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The Hackett and Tong’s thesis contains two parts:1. Xtian population growth has been plateaued and 2. The estimated share is about 2% across probabilistic surveys. Most of the debates seem to focus on the latter while few mention the former.

Join us on Thursday, March 27, 2025, at 6:00 PM ET. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Interesting article alert on the "sacralization of guns" within particular American milieus and cultures: "The sacred gun: the religious and magical elements of America’s gun culture". Froese, Li, and Mencken; Politics and Religion www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy Friday everyone! Sharing our next event with you on Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 7 pm ET: sharemylesson.com/webinars/add... When signing up, please select the workshop titled "Addressing the Rise and Impact of Misogyny Among Students in Grades 6-12"

‼️New Publication Alert! ‼️ My great coauthors and I have published a new paper titled "The Sacred Gun: The Religious and Magical Elements of America's Gun Culture." We examine how two gun culture ideologies intersect with traditional religious beliefs and various forms of magical thinking.

What Pew's Religious Landscape Study shocks me is about 47% of their US adult sample favor "the federal gov should declare Christian nation." I remember when I was doing my diss using their ATP wave 84 data, the share was 14.80%

Finally I find something Stata beats R: Stata's marginsplot does a better viz of interactive effects in multinomial models than R. Been struggling to plot predicted probabilities with 95% CIs in R for two days - Stata made it like five secs!

American University has just been designated as an R1 prestigious research institution as part of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education! PERIL was highlighted as a notable lab in innovation and inclusive interdisciplinary research. Learn more: bit.ly/42PrWxG

Have you noticed an uptick in openly racist remarks lately? It's not all in your head. @milleridriss.bsky.social writes: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

🚨 Excited to share our forthcoming Social Forces article. Looks at how religious adherent rates relate to murder rates over time. 🧵1/

We are hiring! @perilresearch.bsky.social is making some big hires this year, starting with a new Executive Director to co-lead our growth alongside me. Competitive salary, fantastic benefits, amazing team. Please circulate! american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/AU/job...

Calling all sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, & more: we want your cool papers & panels on religion! Check out the CFP & pitch us something to share in Minneapolis this fall!

Lots of people may not know that most federal grant dollars- even for research, fund salaries of people like project managers, community support specialists, finance teams, etc. Millions & millions of people across the country will be furloughed or fired. I have heard of one NGO that already closed.

I will be on @msnbc.com about 1:40 pm est, talking with Alex Witt about the pardons, extremism & violence

Recently got many nice pictures taken with the best PhD supervisor in the world back in Nov 2024!

If she can do it, we can all do it.

My 2023 article co-authored with Dr. Paul Froese is still relevant in today's context. Using multiple waves of national samples, we find there are two popular notions of Christian America, Christian Statism and Religious Traditionalism. 1/3 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

For @newsweek.com today, I wrote about the changing landscape of terrorism in the US and why it demands a change in our counterterrorism strategies: www.newsweek.com/terror-today...

Misogyny and hostile sexism are predictors of support for political violence or of willingness to engage in it. Beliefs in a hierarchy of superiority, beliefs in the inferiority of women drive support for political violence. @milleridriss.bsky.social www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Many things happened to me in the past year. Luckily I survived and learned from anxieties and many negative experiences, found a perfect job and joined a fantastic team, moved to a new city, and am still loved by my friends, colleagues, and their cute dogs!

okay everybody, I just created a new starter pack on scholars (probably mostly sociologists for now) who work on religion, culture, and/or politics. Please let me know if I missed you or if you want me to add anyone else: go.bsky.app/EAV2G9G

Reposting our starter pack on “Experts on German Rightwing Extremism” go.bsky.app/DnB9hMz

radicalization ppl often act like it’s 100% individual media & digital literacy & not also the need to address & change online ecosystems, algorithms, recommendation systems that serve up awful content constantly, in curated & manipulative ways. We do need ppl to be more skeptical of the media 3/

“The more you shame people for what they’re espousing, the more they’re driven underground deeper into online communities who welcome them with open arms,” says @milleridriss.bsky.social of @perilresearch.bsky.social.

What life would look like without cute doggo