RLC Network William Trollinger

William Trollinger

William Trollinger is Professor of History in the History and Religious Studies Departments at the University of Dayton. He has a B.A. in English and History from Bethel College (MN), and a M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He writes on American evangelicalism/fundamentalism, creationism, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Christian Right, among other topics. His latest book is co-authored with Susan Trollinger: Righting America at the Creation Museum (Johns Hopkins, 2016).

The Christian Right and the Decline of White Evangelicalism

William Trollinger

July 30, 2021

Christian Nationalism, Church Life, General, Politics

In short, the quantitative and qualitative evidence – and, I will add, my own anecdotal evidence – strongly support the argument that the Christian Right has been a primary factor in the decline of white evangelicalism in the last decade and the dramatic rise of the nones since the 1990s.