Replication Data for: Religious Roots of War Attitudes in the United States: Insights from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf

Several scholars have effectively explained why religious “belonging”, “behaving”, and “believing” can matter in determining war related attitudes. However, there seems to be a disagreement in the existing scholarship on whether religious factors exercise any direct influence on such attitudes that is independent of political predispositions. I weigh in on the debate by examining whether religious factors have a direct and independent effect in shaping attitudes towards the Iraq War. Thereafter, I explore the same question in the contexts of the Afghanistan War and the Persian Gulf War. Using American National Election Study datasets and a series of regression estimates, I find that the effect of religious factors in shaping attitudes towards each of the three wars is rather indirect via political predispositions.