Opinion

Religion and the Moral Foundations of American Democracy

11/16/2021|Updated: 11/16/2021

Commentary

According to social scientists, traditional religiosity is in decline in contemporary America. Fewer Americans identify as members of long-established churches. Fewer Americans attend religious services on a weekly basis than in generations past.

Carson Holloway

Author

Carson Holloway is professor of political science and Ralph Wardle Diamond professor of arts and sciences at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has been a visiting fellow in Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and the Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies. He is the author of “Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration” (2016) and co-editor, with Bradford P. Wilson, of “The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton, Vols. One and Two” (2017).