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George Yancey is with us today. He is professor of sociology at Baylor University

and the author of What Motivates Cultural Progressives, Understanding understanding opposition to the political and Christian

right, and also so many Christians, so few lions. Is there Christianophobia in the United States?

He has a new book out, co-authored with Ashley Quosick, I hope I pronounced that name correctly,

Professor Yancey, but it's entitled

One Faith No Longer, the Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America, our topic

today. Welcome, Professor Yancey.

Thanks for having me. I think it's Quisicic is the way to pronounce it. Quisic,

okay, okay, thank you. Now, you note right off that while we have lots of literature on religious conservatives, in the social

sciences, we don't have all that much on religious progressives.

Why do you think that is?

You know, I think in part it's because most religious individuals in the social sciences

tend to be more progressive than conservative.

And so there's probably a tendency to take for granted their own experiences

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