Jack Delehanty

Narrative

My research addresses the cultural dimensions of political organizing and national belonging in the U.S. My dissertation project documents the ways that faith-based social justice groups develop moral frameworks for mobilizing political action against racial and socioeconomic inequality, and explains the implications of these frameworks for the broader field of progressive democratic organizing in the U.S. A second ongoing project uses recent survey data to examine how religious traditions intertwine with ethnic and civic criteria for national belonging to construct symbolic boundaries in the public sphere.