Ryan Burge — Academia

Research · Publications · Scholarship
32journal articles
5book chapters
4research grants

Religion, Politics,
and the Data Between.

Professor of Practice at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis, and Research Director for Faith Counts. My research sits at the intersection of religious identity, political behavior, and quantitative methods — with a particular focus on evangelical Christians, the rise of the religious nones, and how clergy and congregations shape democratic life.

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Washington University in St. Louis
37 publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

32 articles
Forthcoming
Once Saved, Always Swayed: Religious Residue Among Christian Ex-vangelicals
Van Tongeren, Daryl R., Jeffrey D. Green, Eriksen P. Ravey, Tony Jones, and Ryan Burge
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
Article
2026
The Making Meaning Survey: A New Dataset for the Study of Non-Religion in the United States
Burge, Ryan and Tony Jones
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Article
2025
Attending Church Encourages Acceptance of Atheists? Suppression Effects in Religion and Politics Research
Djupe, Paul A., Amanda J. Friesen, Andrew R. Lewis, Anand E. Sokhey, Jacob R. Neiheisel, Zachary D. Broeren, and Ryan P. Burge
Political Behavior
Article
2023
Religious Identity-Inconsistent Attending: Its Correlates and Political Implications
Djupe, Paul A., Ryan P. Burge and Christopher Garneau
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Article
2022
Divine Attribution? The Interaction of Religious and Secular Beliefs on Climate Change Attitudes
Djupe, Paul A. and Ryan P. Burge
Politics & Religion, 1–19
Article
2022
The Consequences of Response Options: Including Both Protestant and Christian on Surveys
Burge, Ryan P.
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 61(1): 242–257
Article
2022
Religion, Politics, and Public Funding for Abortion: A Research Note
Braunstein, Ruth, Andrew Whitehead, and Ryan P. Burge
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 61(1): 230–241
Article
2022
Religious Authority in a Democratic Society: Clergy and Citizen Evidence from a New Measure
Djupe, Paul A. and Ryan P. Burge
Politics & Religion, 15(1): 1–28
Article
2021
Did the Nones Put Joe Biden in the White House? An Analysis of the Voting Patterns of the Religiously Unaffiliated in 2020
Driggers, Hunter and Ryan P. Burge
Politics and Religion Journal, 15(2): 313–329
Article
2021
The New Older Adult Participant in American Politics
Bramlett, Brittany and Ryan P. Burge
Social Science Quarterly, 102(6): 2972–2984
Article
2021
Does Disgust Drive Religious Freedom Attitudes? Experimental Results About the Context of Service Refusal Opinion
Djupe, Paul A., Andrew R. Lewis, Anand E. Sokhey and Ryan P. Burge
Social Science Quarterly, 102(2): 755–770
Article
2021
Falling Through the Cracks: Dealing with the Problem of the Unclassifieds in RELTRAD
Burge, Ryan P. and Paul A. Djupe
Review of Religious Research
Article
2020
Finding the Missing Atheists
Smothers, Hannah and Ryan P. Burge
Secularism and Nonreligion
Article
2020
The Prosperity Gospel of Coronavirus Response
Djupe, Paul A. and Ryan P. Burge
Politics & Religion, 1–22
Article
2020
Is Becoming Born-Again a Transformative Experience? Results from Three Sets of Panel Data
Burge, Ryan P.
Review of Religious Research, 63(1): 83–105
Article
2020
The Gendered Religious Response to State Action on the Coronavirus Pandemic
Smothers, Hannah, Ryan Burge and Paul A. Djupe
Politics & Gender, 16(4): 1063–1074
Article
2020
God Talk in a Digital Age: How Members of Congress Use Religious Language on Twitter
Bramlett, Brittany and Ryan P. Burge
Politics & Religion, 14(2): 316–338
Article
2020
How Many 'Nones' Are There? Explaining the Difference in Survey Estimates
Burge, Ryan P.
Review of Religious Research, 62(1): 173–190
Article
2019
How Religion Predicts Pet Ownership in the United States
Perry, Samuel and Ryan P. Burge
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 59(1): 190–201
Article
2019
Is Social Media A Digital Pulpit? How Evangelical Leaders Use Twitter to Encourage the Faithful and Publicize Their Work
Burge, Ryan P. and Miles Williams
Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture, 8(3): 309–339
Article
2019
Digital Segregation: Gender, Occupation and Access to Politics
Friesen, Amanda, Ryan P. Burge and Kylee Britzman
Social Science Computer Review, 39(1): 38–55
Article
2019
Gender in the Pulpit: The Differences in Speaking Style for Men and Women
Burge, Ryan P. and Miles Williams
Journal of Communication and Religion, 42(1): 63–82
Article
2018
Authority, Authoritarianism, and Religion
Burge, Ryan P.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
Article
2018
To Be of One Mind?: How LGB Evangelicals Navigate the Political World
Burge, Ryan P.
Politics, Groups, and Identities, 8(3): 554–575
Article
2018
Measuring Evangelicals: Practical Considerations for Social Scientists
Burge, Ryan P. and Andrew Lewis
Politics & Religion, 11(4): 745–759
Article
2017
Christian Theology and Attitudes Toward Political-Ideological Groups
Eisenstein, Marie, George Yancey and Ryan P. Burge
Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, 13(6): 1–13
Article
2017
An Emergent Threat: Christian Clergy Perceptions of the Emerging Church Movement
Burge, Ryan P. and Paul A. Djupe
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 56(1): 26–32
Article
2016
The Delegational Pulpit? Clergy Identifying as Congregational Political Representatives
Burge, Ryan, Paul A. Djupe and Brian Calfano
Representation, 52(1): 43–69
Article
2016
Emergent Fault Lines: Clergy Attitudes Toward the Emergent Church Movement
Burge, Ryan P. and Paul A. Djupe
Journal of Religious Leadership, 15(1): 5–30
Article
2015
Emergent Church Practices in America: Inclusion and Deliberation in American Congregations
Burge, Ryan P. and Paul A. Djupe
Review of Religious Research, 57(1): 1–22
Article
2014
Truly Inclusive or Uniformly Liberal: An Analysis of the Politics of the Emerging Church
Burge, Ryan and Paul Djupe
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 53(3): 636–651
Article
2013
Using Matching to Investigate the Relationship Between Religion and Tolerance
Burge, Ryan
Politics & Religion, 6(2): 264–281
Article

Book Chapters

5 chapters
2024
The Shifting Religious Vote: Compositional Changes in the Religious Electorate in the 2000s
Sims, Kaylynn and Ryan P. Burge
In Trump, White Evangelical Christians, and American Politics: Change and Continuity. University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 25–40
Chapter
2022
Satan and a Virus Won't Stop Us
Djupe, Paul A. and Ryan P. Burge
In 'An Epidemic Among My People': Religion in the Age of COVID-19. Temple University Press
Chapter
2021
#Evangelical: How Twitter Discusses American Religion
Burge, Ryan P.
In Exploring the Public Effects of Religious Communication on Politics. University of Michigan Press, pp. 150–171
Chapter
2018
We Find Truth by Talking: Comparing Authority in Evangelicalism and the Emergent Church
Burge, Ryan P.
In The Evangelical Crackup: Will the Evangelical-Republican Coalition Last? Temple University Press, pp. 160–173
Chapter
2015
The Political Tolerance of Clergy and its Democratic Roots
Burge, Ryan, Paul A. Djupe and Brian Calfano
In Religion and Political Tolerance in America: Advances in the State of the Art. Temple University Press, pp. 21–33
Chapter

Research Grants

4 grants · $355,100 total
2023
Making Meaning in a Post-Religious America
With Tony Jones · The John Templeton Foundation
$339,000
2019
The Social and Political Implications of Non-Denominational Protestantism
Principal Investigator, with Paul Djupe · The Louisville Institute: Project Grant for Researchers
$14,000
2019
Student Impact Grant
With Hannah Smothers · The Graduate School, Eastern Illinois University
$1,500
2020
Research/Creative Activity Award
Karen Cook and Hunter Driggers · The Graduate School, Eastern Illinois University
$600

Works in Progress

2 under contract
Exp. 2027
The Great American Church Migration
With Michael Graham · Zondervan · Expected April 20, 2027
Under Contract
Exp. 2029
Never Churched
With Michael Graham · Under Contract, Zondervan Reflective · Expected March 2029
Under Contract
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