Why Can’t the Baptist and the Nondenominational Be Friends: The Effect of Religious Movements in Oklahoma

Abstract

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The study of the effect of religious belonging is a long history of evolution on how to best account for the diversity that exists within religious groups while also categorizing people into large enough groups for analysis. Importantly these schemes have almost entirely focused on religious belonging in a national context. This study begins the development of a scheme that categorizes religious organizations and identities based on who religious groups identify as allies within their own unique religious marketplace. Oklahoma is an interesting test case because its religious and political makeup are unique compared to nation. This creates and breaks alliances in interesting ways. After developing this scheme, the article uses data from the Cooperative Election Survey to compare between religious movements on political identity, support for prominent politicians, electoral activity, and support for immigration policy proposals. The article finds support for the validity of using religious movements as the basis for classification both in Oklahoma and in other states.