Paul Djupe, Ph.D.

PRRI Affiliated Scholar Paul A. Djupe is a political scientist at Denison University (Ph.D., Washington University in 1997), where he directs the Data for Political Research program. He specializes in religion and American politics, social networks, and political behavior. Dr. Djupe is the editor of the Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics series with Temple UP and was the editor of the APSA Politics & Religion journal. He is the author or editor of numerous articles and books, including Trump, White Evangelical Christians, and American Politics: Change and Continuity (2024, U Penn), The Full Armor of God: The Mobilization of Christian Nationalism in American Politics (2023, Cambridge), The Evangelical Crackup? The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition (2019, Temple), the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics & Religion (2020, Oxford), and The Political Influence of Churches (2009, Cambridge). His research interests include examining how religious communities provide political information and how members then use that information and how religious worldviews, such as Christian nationalism and apocalypticism, work to shape American public opinion and political behavior in unexpected ways. He blogs for various outlets, most regularly for religioninpublic.blog, which he co-founded.