Public Religion Research Institute

The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) is an American nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization that conducts public opinion polls on a variety of different topics, specializing in the quantitative and qualitative study of political issues as they relate to religious values.[1]

Public Religion Research Institute
Established2009 (2009)
CEORobert P. Jones
Location
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Address1023 15TH ST NW, 9th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005
Websiteprri.org

Major research

In 2014, PRRI launched the American Values Atlas, an interactive online tool that provides information about religious, political and demographic composition for all 50 states and particular issues.[2][3]

Robert P. Jones

Robert P. Jones is the founder and CEO of PRRI.[4] He previously served as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. Jones holds a PhD in Religion from Emory University and a MDiv from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of The End of White Christian America (2016),[5] which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Jones is also the author of the 2020 book White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity.[6]

Books
  • Jones, Robert P. (February 1, 2007). Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality: Religion and Cultural Bias in the Oregon Physician-Assisted Suicide Debates. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0268032678.
  • Jones, Robert Patrick (July 25, 2008). Progressive & Religious: How Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist Leaders are Moving Beyond the Culture Wars and Transforming American Public Life. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0742562301.
  • Jones, Robert P. (January 25, 2012). A Culture Worth Saving: Never Too Late. Outskirts Press. ISBN 9781432783082.
  • Jones, Robert P. (July 12, 2016). The End of White Christian America. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781501122293.
  • Jones, Robert P.; Smith, Ted A., eds. (December 22, 2017). Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality. Routledge. ASIN B078KMSGMP. ISBN 9781315413518.
  • Jones, Robert P. (July 28, 2020). White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781982122881.

Selected articles
  • Jones, Robert P. (November 10, 2016). "The Rage of White, Christian America". The New York Times (subscription required) (op-ed). Retrieved August 1, 2020. ... the loudest voices of [the 2016] election turned out to be not the 'new America' demographic groups of Latinos, African-Americans and millennials, but Mr. Trump’s aging and raging white Christian supporters.
  • Jones, Robert P. (May 2, 2017). "The Collapse of American Identity". The New York Times (subscription required) (op-ed). Retrieved August 1, 2020. leaders of both parties will have to ... [take up the] arduous task of weaving a new national narrative in which all Americans can see themselves.
  • Robert P. Jones (June 19, 2020). "This is a moment of reckoning on race for White Christians" (Interview). Interviewed by Daniel Burke. CNN. Retrieved August 1, 2020. CNN spoke to Jones recently about why so many White Christians turn a blind eye to racism, how white supremacy took hold of American culture and what Christians can do now to make amends.

References
  1. Rubin, Jennifer. "How White Supremacy Infected Christianity and the Republican Party," The Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020. Retrieved 13 Aug. 2020.
  2. Robert P. Jones (February 18, 2019). "America's Changing Religious Landscape". The Religious Studies Project (Interview). Interviewed by Benjamin P. Marcus. Retrieved July 29, 2020. ... findings from PRRI’s national surveys on religion and public life, many of which are represented in the American Values Atlas.
  3. "About the American Values Atlas". Public Religion Research Institute. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  4. Jones, Robert P. (July 28, 2020). "White Christian America Needs a Moral Awakening". The Atlantic. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  5. Jones, Robert P. (July 12, 2016). The End of White Christian America. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781501122293.
  6. Jones, Robert P. (July 28, 2020). White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781982122881.
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