the problem is not them but the larger context in which they are working. Most revealing, in my view, is how this empirical fact can be treated among American sociologists in a top journal as if it were actually a surprise, something of which we have to take note. This reflects, I suggest, a determined passive-resistance on the part of sociologists to hear and believe the empirical fact that American evangelicals actually are a diverse group theologically, ideologically, and politically. But why? Because that fact is not easily assimilated into or comprehensible in light of American
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