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The End of White Christian America (Award-Winning History) Paperback – July 4, 2017

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“Quite possibly the most illuminating text for this election year” (The New York Times Book Review).

*Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion*
Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, spells out the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality—that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation.

For most of our nation’s history, White Christian America (WCA) set the tone for our national policy and shaped American ideals. But especially since the 1990s, WCA has steadily lost influence, following declines within both its mainline and evangelical branches. Today, America is no longer demographically or culturally a majority white, Christian nation.

Drawing on more than four decades of polling data, The End of White Christian America explains and analyzes the waning vitality of WCA. Robert P. Jones argues that the visceral nature of today’s most heated issues—the vociferous arguments around same-sex marriage and religious and sexual liberty, the rise of the Tea Party following the election of our first black president, and stark disagreements between black and white Americans over the fairness of the criminal justice system—can only be understood against the backdrop of white Christians’ anxieties as America’s racial and religious topography shifts around them.

Beyond 2016, the descendants of WCA will lack the political power they once had to set the terms of the nation’s debate over values and morals and to determine election outcomes. Looking ahead, Jones forecasts the ways that they might adjust to find their place in the new America—and the consequences for us all if they don’t. “Jones’s analysis is an insightful combination of history, sociology, religious studies, and political science….This book will be of interest to a wide range of readers across the political spectrum” (Library Journal).

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Robert P. Jones is the president and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and a leading scholar and commentator on religion and politics. Jones writes regularly on politics, culture, and religion for The Atlantic, TIME, and Religion News Service. He is frequently featured in major national media, such as MSNBC, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. He holds a PhD in religion from Emory University and a MDiv from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, which won a 2021 American Book Award, and The End of White Christian America, which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. He writes a regular Substack newsletter at RobertPJones.substack.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 4, 2017
Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501122320
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501122323
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.38 inches
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Robert P. Jones is the President and Founder of PRRI and a leading scholar and commentator on religion, culture, and politics. He is the author of:

* "The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future," a New York Times bestseller;

* “White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity,” winner of a 2021 American Book Award; and

* “The End of White Christian America,” winner of the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

Jones writes a regular newsletter at https://robertpjones.substack.com.

Jones also has bylines at The Atlantic online, TIME, NBC Think, and Religion News Service and is frequently featured in major national media such as MSNBC, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. Jones serves on the Committee for the Public Understanding of Religion for the American Academy of Religion. He holds a Ph.D. in religion from Emory University, a M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a B.S. in computing science and mathematics from Mississippi College. Jones was selected by Emory University’s Graduate Division of Religion as Distinguished Alumnus of the Year in 2013, and by Mississippi College’s Mathematics Department as Alumnus of the Year in 2016.

Before founding PRRI, Jones worked as a consultant and senior research fellow at several think tanks in Washington, D.C., and was an assistant professor of religious studies at Missouri State University.

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Customers find this book to be a must-read for scholars, with well-researched content and insightful analysis. The writing is clear, and the book includes plenty of graphs and charts, with one customer noting how it explains current political and sociological events. Customers appreciate the historical content and the well-developed sociology of religion, with one review specifically highlighting the decline of Protestant America. The book receives mixed reactions regarding its treatment of religion.

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Customers find the book well written, with one customer describing it as a sociological masterpiece.

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Excellent Social History
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2016
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I liked reading this book very much. It's in no way a dry, boring history or social studies yawner. It actually begins with a tongue-in-cheek obituary for this demographic, which was quite amusing--but which did NOT set the tone of the book as light-hearted or snide.

Instead it's a great exploration of one of the most significant demographic changes happening in the US. Fascinating. I found it such a good read that I've already loaned it out to a buddy who likes all things political/social/history. She's loving it too. Very readable.

Read this if you have any curiosity about the relationship between demographics and politics. It explains, for example, what has happened to the GOP, which has long depended on this group as a voting bloc. It explains what may happen in the future.

I'd also read this if you are part of this demographic. You may or may not like the book, but no matter what, when big social changes happen, books like this are a wonderful resource for all of us.

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Thomas M. Magee
An eye opening book.
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2017
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I think everyone needs to read this book. It has something for everyone no matter where you are in the political or religious world. This book is more or less a hit piece on the church. However this book has something most of those kind of books doesn't have. It isn't a bunch of rants and raves this book does have facts to back up their ideas. I gave him a 4 star just for that alone. I do think his angle misses something. You can't explain the church in mere public opinion polls.

I was very impressed with the documentation in this. It does paint a gloomy, depressing, and scary picture of where the country is. I think a lot of church goers and leaders don't realize that. They are still stuck in the way things were in the 50s or even the 70s. They don't realize how things have drifted. He does a good job of showing how the church, black or white has lost so much in the culture war. No matter who the reader is the book will wake you up. It will either show how much your side has won or lost.

The author does show how the Church is dying. It is dying straight along demographic lines. Older people go to church and younger people don't. That obviously will cause it to die out. The author also explains how the Church has two parts, mainline or liberal vs. evangelical or conservative. I think that is something non-church goers will find intriguing and not be aware of. He also takes various issues to show how the Church has lost via the issues of race, gay marriage, and politics. I found that an interesting way to examine the church.

This book does miss the Trump revolution. The book paints a picture that the Church is dead as a cultural/political power. He says it is a last gasp. He misses how the election breaks the country down into church goers who vote for Trump and those who don't. The numbers are very clear on that. I think he misses what the church is doing in various communities and in the lives of those who are going to church.

People who go to Church don't go because it is the "in" thing to do. Their motivation is more complex than that. They go because of what CS Lewis says is to fill the God shaped hole in all of us. Most could care less if it is perceived to be the "in" thing. I know that various churches and denominations are changing their doctrine to make people like them. He does point that out in the gay marriage chapter. He points out the problems in that. You don't get the new people in significant numbers and you make the devoted made and they leave. Then society loses. Churches do a lot to change communities and change lives. Tossing out what you believe has not generated traffic to the church. It has only lead to dying churches.

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Daniel F. Pigg
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The Book I Have Been Waiting to Read!

Robert P. Jones’ The End of White Christian America sounds almost preposterous at first. How could we be living at the end of “Christian America”? The evidence of the Christian religion, whether mainline Protestant or evangelical Protestant, seems to be everywhere! In his six-chapter book, Jones argues convincingly that the cultural forces that shaped the life of 20th-century America and earlier have died or actually are currently dying. The final chapter, in fact, characterizes the death in terms of the stages of grief from the well-known book, On Death and Dying. A well-researched book from a highly credible scholar, The End of White Christian America should be read by anyone interested in religion and life in the US today.

The book begins with an obituary:

“After a long life spanning nearly two hundred forty years, White Christian America—a prominent cultural force in the nation’s history—has died. WCA first began to exhibit troubling symptoms in the 1960s when white mainline Protestant denominations began to shrink, but showed signs of rallying with the rise of the Christian Right in the 1980s. Following the 2004 presidential election, however, it became clear that WCA’s power were failing.” (p. 1).

The book begins with an examination of three significant cultural landmarks of organized religion: The United Methodist Building in Washington, DC; the Interchurch Center in NYC; and the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA. The UMC building establish in Washington, DC, in 1923 was built to establish a connection between the Methodist Church—a leading denomination—and governmental policy making. At that stage, Methodists were particularly interested in alcohol and its continuing elimination and thwarting the growth of Roman Catholicism in the US! It is now a building that features tenants from many Christian and other world religion traditions. The Interchurch Center, connected with the National Council of Churches, now opens its door to both religious and secular tenants. Finally, the empire church of Robert Schuler that once presented his sublimated, conservative evangelical Protestant agenda of Orange, Co., CA, is now a Roman Catholic building for public worship, after the Shuler descendants bankrupted the church. These buildings provide important metaphors for understanding change in both mainline and evangelical traditions. The book examines Roman Catholics only in the sense that they were not a part of the “original” White Christian synthesis and occupy the position now of the incursions to non-white Christians.

The book examines carefully the demographics provided by the Pew Foundation and surveys conducted by PRRI over the last few years as well as other normed studies. The book concludes with the idea that theologians such as Stanley Hauerwas have provided ways to suggest the end of mainline Protestantism and that scholars such as Russell Moore (SBC) and David Gushee (Baptist) have provided the ways of understanding decline and death to evangelical Protestants. For those people not “plugged in” to the traditions, these might sound like odd suggestions; however, for skill observers all of these writers suggest ways that the traditions may survive their own deaths—that is, beyond or after their own places in a cultural hegemony.

The book examines two topics in particular that will interest contemporary readers: gay marriage and the treatment of GLBTQ people and race relations since Ferguson. Jones examines the challenge where mainline Protestants have in many ways embraced GLBTQ people and that evangelical Protestants have not. I’m painting a broad sweep of what he examines with careful detail in light of how millennials understand this issue. Mainliners have moved toward acceptance while evangelicals have moved toward “religious liberty” as a way of understanding a cultural shift that has happened to alienate them from larger American life. Whatever can be said for evangelical Christians, the Supreme Court decision of 2015 was a “nuclear event” (145). With respect to race relations, Jones notes the institutional segregation that was set into civic structures as early as 1911 that provided for segregation as the order of the day in terms of organization. Jones moves behind the events that resulted in the deaths of several African Americans to talk about the way that socialization and the failures of socialization have set in those patterns both for mainline Protestants and evangelical Christians. What may surprise some mainline Protestants is how the surveys do not show the disparity between themselves and evangelical Protestants they have often been told.

Jones’ book does not suggest that Christianity will leave the face of America, but it is one that suggests the old order cannot be revived—it cannot be “great again”—but must accommodate itself to a diminished role. Any attempt to reassert the older mythic narratives of history will only make the challenges greater and the fall more apparent.

Jones’ analysis, based on a number of statistical studies from highly reputable sources, is illuminating. He seems to have limited “evangelical” at times to “Southern Baptist.” That seems to be a mistake in a world of an increasing post-denominational movement. Still, however, many of those churches are “Southern Baptist” in orientation, with the outward signposts removed. He does note that contemporary feelings and opinions seem to support the ideological position of mainline Protestant groups, but that too is deceptive for them. What he does not examine are other traditions rising from the gap between mainline and evangelical positions—a kind of “new monasticism” or the emerging church.

Jones’ book is very much on the mark with its investigation. Anyone interested in the trajectories of modern American Christianity would do well to read his book.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2025
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