Andrew R. Lewis

Book

• Lewis, Andrew R. 2017. The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Paperback April 2018]

Recent Peer Reviewed Publications

• Claassen, Ryan L., Paul A. Djupe, Andrew R. Lewis, and Jacob R. Neiheisel. “Which Party Represents My Group.” Political Behavior. Forthcoming.

• Lewis, Andrew R., William Blake, Stephen T. Mockabee, and Amanda Friesen. Forthcoming. “American Constitutional Faith and the Politics of Hermeneutics.” Politics & Religion. Forthcoming.

• Lewis, Andrew R. 2019. “The Transformation of the Christian Right’s Moral Politics.” The Forum 17(1): 25-44

  • Guest editor of special issue on the “Politics of Morality in the U.S.”

• Burge, Ryan P., and Andrew R. Lewis. 2018. “Measuring Evangelicals: Practical Considerations for Social Scientists. Politics & Religion 11(4): 745-759.

  • Corrigendum. 2018. 11(4): 920-925.

• Jelen, Ted G., Andrew R. Lewis, and Paul A. Djupe. 2018. "Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech: The Effects of Alternative Rights Frames on Mass Support for Public Exemptions." Journal of Church and State 60(1): 43-67.

• Paul A. Djupe, Andrew R. Lewis, and Ted G. Jelen. 2016. "Rights, Reflection, and Reciprocity: Implications of the Same-Sex Marriage Debate for Tolerance and the Political Process." Politics & Religion 9(3): 630-48.

• Lewis, Andrew R. 2016. "Learning the Value of Rights: Abortion Politics and the Liberalization of Evangelical Free Speech Advocacy." Politics & Religion. 9(2): 309-31.

• Lewis, Andrew R., Paul A. Djupe, Stephen T. Mockabee, and Joshua S. Wu. 2015. "The (Non) Religion of Mechanical Turk Workers." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 54(2): 419-28.

• Djupe, Paul A., and Andrew R. Lewis. 2015. "Solidarity and Discord of Interest Group Pluralism: How the Social Context Affects Interest Group Learning and Belonging." American Politics Research 43(3): 394-424.

• Lewis, Andrew R. 2014. "Abortion Politics & the Decline of the Separation of Church and State: The Southern Baptist Case." Politics & Religion 7(3): 521-49. [PDF}

• Djupe, Paul A., Andrew R. Lewis, Ted G. Jelen, and Charles Dahan. 2014. "Rights Talk: The Opinion Dynamics of Rights Framing." Social Science Quarterly 95(3): 652-668. [PDF}

• Lewis, Andrew R. 2014. "Staffing the Front Lines of the Culture War: Constituency Religious Effects on Assignment to the Senate Judiciary Committee." Congress & the Presidency 41(2): 167-89. {Full Text}

• Lewis, Andrew R. 2011. "Representing the Faithful in Legal Advocacy? Evaluating the Congruence in Baptist Church-State Advocacy." Politics & Policy 39(3): 441-68. [PDF}

• Lewis, Andrew R., and Dana Huyser de Bernardo. 2010. "Belonging without Belonging: Utilizing Evangelical Self-Identification to Analyze Political Attitudes and Preferences." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 49(1): 112-26. [PDF}

• Wozniak, Kevin H., and Andrew R. Lewis. 2010. "Reexamining the Effect of Christian Denominational Affiliation on Death Penalty Support." Journal of Criminal Justice. 38(5): 1082-89.

Other Notable Writings

• “The Fight for Religious Freedom Isn’t What It Used to Be,” The Atlantic, June 17, 2021.

• “In Becerra, Conservative Christians Win with Legal Arguments,” The New York Times. June 26, 2018.

• "How the Pro-Life Movement Has Promoted Liberal Values." The New York Times. January 19, 2018.

• "Abortion Taught Conservative Christians to Argue for Minority Rights--As They are Doing Today in Masterpiece Cakeshop." Washington Post, Monkey Cage. December 5, 2017.

• "Roger Stone Says There Would be an 'Insurrection' if Trump Were Impeached. Is He Right?" Washington Post, Monkey Cage. September 15, 2017.

• "Most People - And Perhaps Most Clergy - Don't Want Political Endorsements in Church." With Paul A. Djupe. FiveThirtyEight. February 3, 2017.

• "How Will Obama Be Graded by History." With Paul A. Djupe. FiveThirtyEight. January 18, 2017.

• "Trump Doesn't Have a Monopoly onc Intolerant Supporters." With Paul A. Djupe and Jacob R. Neiheisel. FiveThirtyEight. April 21, 2016.

• "Americans May Be Too Religious to Embrace Socialism." With Paul A. Djupe. FiveThirtyEight. March 10, 2016.

• "When the Iowa caucus goes to church." With Paul A. Djupe. Vox, Mischiefs of Faction. February 1, 2015.

• "Where to say 'Merry Christmas' vs. 'Happy Holidays.'" With Paul A. Djupe. FiveThirtyEight. December 23, 2015.

• "Republicanism Trumps Religion when It Comes to Anti-Muslim Sentiment." With Paul A. Djupe and Jacob R. Neiheisel. FiveThirtyEight. December 10, 2015.

• “Mike Huckabee’s attack on the Supreme Court could work. Here’s how.” With Paul A. Djupe. The Washington Post, Monkey Cage. June 30, 2015.

• “The freedom of religion argument could actually make gay marriage opponents more tolerant.” With Paul A. Djupe and Ted G. Jelen. The Washington Post, Monkey Cage. April 10, 2015

Works in Progress

• Polarizing Religious Freedom (book manuscript in progress)

• The Republican Roots of Christian Nationalism (with Paul A. Djupe and Anand E. Sokhey).

Grants

• "Priming Prophetic Politics: The Development of Political Clergy in American Seminaries," Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, Faculty Summer Fellowship, 2016 ($8000)

• "Priming Prophetic Politics: The Development of Political Clergy in American Seminaries," Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Jack Shand Research Award, 2015 ($4022)

• "Building a Coalition for Criminal Justice Reform: An Analysis of Issue Framing," University of Cincinnati, Presidential Seed Grant, 2015 ($1980)

• "Rights Framing in American Religion," Taft Research Center, Faculty Research Award, 2014 ($6200)

• "The Development of a First Amendment Landmark: Zelman v. Simmons-Harris," Voinovich Collections, Fellowship Program, 2014 ($1000)

• The Politics of Hermeneutics," Taft Research Center, Department Allocated Research, 2014 ($990)

• The Politics of Rights Framing," Taft Research Center, Department Allocated Research, 2014 ($770)