Discussion | Ruth Braunstein | When the Wolves Came: Evangelicals Resisting Extremism
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Monday, September 29th at 5:30 PM for a discussion with Ruth Braunstein. She will discuss When the Wolves Came: Evangelicals Resisting Extremism, a new documentary podcast spotlighting evangelical leaders who are resisting political extremism in their church and the country, with Delia Baldassarri and Bart Bonikowski.
Ruth Braunstein studies religion, politics, and money. She is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, where she is Director of Undergraduate Studies. She also leads the Meanings of Democracy Lab, which explores the moral and cultural foundations of American democracy. Her book, My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America, delves into how paying taxes became a moral battleground in public life. She is also the author of Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide and co-editor of Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories About Faith and Politics.
Delia Baldassarri is Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University. She holds courtesy appointments in the Wilf Family Department of Politics and in the Management and Organizations Department at the Stern School of Business. Baldassarri’s research interests are in the fields of Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Networks, and Analytical Sociology. Her current research projects include a study of the emergence of cooperation in complex societies, focusing on the empirical case of ethnically heterogeneous communities and a book project, Partisan Misfits, that investigates the demographic and social network bases of partisanship in American public opinion.
Bart Bonikowski is Associate Professor of Sociology and Politics at New York University. Using relational survey methods, computational text analysis, and experimental research, his work applies insights from cultural sociology to the study of politics in the United States and Europe, with a particular focus on nationalism, populism, and radical-right parties.