OU Sociologist Dr. Sam Perry was in interviewed for a national CNN report on the response among some Evangelicals towards the COVID 19 Vaccine. He states: "There is a tendency within White Christian nationalism, to want to believe these kinds of conspiracies, because I think it reinforces this idea of an us versus them," Perry said. "The problem is, the people who are feeding that fear, have an incentive to keep stoking that fear because people keep clicking, and people keep listening." Dr. Perry's book (with Andrew Whitehead) Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States as well as his numerious article on this topic have made him an important figure in recent national debates surrounding the growth and influence of Christian Nationalist within American political and religious life.
April 2021
Dr. Perry Interviewed for CNN Story on Evangelicals and the COVID Vaccine
