Keeping Youth in the Pews: A Quasi-Experimental Reconsideration of the Relationship Between Politics and Religion

• In Event: Let's Talk about the Methods of Religion and Politics

Brief Overview

Differences in the timing of political and religious socialization can lead politics to drive religious identities. I explore this relationship with a quasi-experimental test of youth retention efforts' impact in an evangelical denomination.

Author

• Amy B Lakeman, Harvard University