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Deprogramming is a controversial tactic that seeks to dissuade someone from "strongly held convictions" [1] such as religious beliefs. Deprogramming purports to assist a person who holds a particular belief system—of a kind considered harmful by those initiating the deprogramming—to change those beliefs and sever connections to the group associated with them.
The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896 (1971) online free; Kleppner, Paul. The Third Electoral System, 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures(1979) Putnam, Robert D. and David E. Campbell. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (2012) Smidt, Corwin and Lyman Kellstedt, eds.
Ethnocultural politics in the United States (or ethnoreligious politics) refers to the pattern of certain cultural or religious groups to vote heavily for one party. Groups can be based on ethnicity (such as Hispanics, Irish, Germans), race (White people, Black people, Asian Americans) or religion (Protestant [and later, Evangelical] or Catholic) or on overlapping categories (Irish Catholics).
Bill J. Leonard, dean of the divinity school and professor of church history at Wake Forest University said, "what we should have known after twenty years or more of discussing religion in the political square and at political election time: that American religion is very messy, and it doesn't fit all the categories and its very layered; there ...
In his inaugural address, Kennedy asserted that America’s “revolutionary beliefs” about the natural rights of mankind were contested around the globe. He promised “to assure the survival ...
It is a false religion." [ 5 ] [ 18 ] On the other hand, Tyler Huckabee argues that it can result in "deconversion", or "in your faith looking more or less the same it always did" but "most often, it's somewhere in between—rethinking the things you’ve always believed and coming to a new, different understanding of parts of it". [ 5 ]
The magazine listed what it stood for in its first issue: "religion, the King, liberty…and upstanding people." These were the things under threat from the new society formed after the Revolution.
More than 30% of Americans might qualify as sympathetic to Christian nationalism when it is defined within the idea that America was meant by God to be a Christian nation.