Sociology of Religion

Papers
(The median citation count of Sociology of Religion is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Varieties of Atheism in Science, by ELAINE HOWARD ECKLUND and DAVID R. JOHNSON33
Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America, by DANA W. LOGAN27
“Bring Your Straight Friends”: Anti-Gay Religious Stigma and Black and White LGB-Affirming Church Members14
The LGBT Politics of Religious Nones13
White Habitus Among Polish White Female Converts to Islam12
Symbolic Pollution and Religious Change: The Religious Imaginary of Anglo-CanadianSpiritual but Not ReligiousMillennials11
God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music, by LEAH PAYNE10
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Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy, by ROBERT WUTHNOW7
Marxism, Religion, and Emancipatory Politics, edited by GRAEME KIRKPATRICK, PETER MCMYLOR and SIMIN FADAEE6
MOVE: An American Religion, by RICHARD KENT EVANS5
“There’s theology and then there’s the people I love. . .”: Authority and Ambivalence in Seminarians’ Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Relationships, Marriage, and Ordination5
Lost in “Translation-Work”: Negotiations of Lost and Saved Language Among Ex-Charismatic Christians in Norway5
Divine Purpose? Religion, Race, and Attitudes Toward Life Extension Technology5
Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq, by DAVID SIDDHARTHA PATEL5
Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan, by CHRISTOPHER TOUNSEL4
Income Inequality, World Polity, and Political Secularization: A Comparative Historical Analysis (1870–2014)3
Correction to: Sources of Inconsistency in the Measurement of Religious Affiliation: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Cognitive Interviews3
The Scientific Spirit of American Humanism, by STEPHEN P. WELDON3
Religions of the World: Questions, Challenges and New Directions, by LESLIE DORROUGH SMITH and STEVEN W. RAMEY2
Power and Agency in the Lives of Contemporary Tibetan Nuns: An Intersectional Study, by MITRA HäRKöNEN2
“The Tables Are Turning”: The Evangelical Defense of Anti-LGBTQ+ Religious Liberty2
When Sorrow Comes: The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter, by MELISSA M. MATTHES2
The Religious Imaginary and the Repressive State: Science-based Beliefs of Ukrainian and Lithuanian Scientists Born in the USSR2
Irish Mormonism: Reconciling Identity in Global Mormonism, by HAZEL O’BRIEN2
Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice, by RACHEL B. GROSS2
Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism by JONATHAN TRAN2
Race and Religion in Everyday Life: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Christian Privilege Among Female Converts in the Netherlands2
Making Moral Citizens: How Faith-Based Organizers Use Vocation for Public Actio, by JACK DELEHANTY2
Education and Religion in Shaping Support for Same-Sex Relations: Considering Differences Over Time and Across Geographical Areas2
Claiming Belonging: Muslim American Advocacy in an Era of Islamophobia, by EMILY CURY2
Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements, edited by WARREN S. GOLDSTEIN and JEAN-PIERRE REED1
American Babylon: Christianity and Democracy Before and After Trump, by PHILIP S. GORSKI1
Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe: Pursing Religious Commitment in the Netherlands, by DAAN BEEKERS1
The Churches They Are a Changin’: Processes of Change in Worship Services1
Smart Suits, Tattered Boots: Black Ministers Mobilizing the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century, by KORIE LITTLE EDWARDS1
Religious Polarization in Europe1
Did Gender Egalitarianism Weaken Religiosity in Baby Boom Women? A Developmental-Historical Approach1
The Moral Foundations of Christian Nationalism1
The Other Black Church: Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom, by JOSEPH L. TUCKER EDMONDS1
Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice, by RACHEL B. GROSSCultural Disjunctions: Post-Traditional Jewish Identity, by PAUL MENDES-FLOHR1
Challenging Identity Conflict: How Queer, Trans, and Nonbinary Muslim Organizations Incite Activism1
Correction to: “You Can’t Just Give People Food”: Whiteness in Practice at an Evangelical Food Pantry1
Using Internet-Derived Data to Measure Religion: Understanding How Google Can Provide Insight into Cross-National Religious Differences1
Work Pray Code, by CAROLYN CHEN1
Between Online Autonomy and Local Constraints: Spaces of Roman Catholic Women’s Activity in Poland1
Sacred as Secular: Secularization under Theocracy in Iran, by ABDOLMOHAMMAD KAZEMIPUR1
Digital Creatives and the Rethinking of Religious Authority, by HEIDI A. CAMPBELL1
A Theory of Political Backlash: Assessing the Religious Right’s Effects on the Religious Field1
Collective Intentionality and the Study of Religion. Social Ontology and Empirical Research, by ANDREA ROTA1
The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in U.S. Islam, by TAZEEN M. ALI0
Navigating (De)Conversion While Maintaining Social Relations Across Different Religions in Flanders (Belgium)0
Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States, by EZIAKU ATUAMA NWOKOCHA0
Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era, by DANIEL R. BARE0
Treating Religion as a Personal Choice: Opportunities and Dilemmas Involved in the Religious Identity Constructions of Turkish Muslim Immigrants0
Back-Pocket God: Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Emerging Adults, by MELINDA LUNDQUIST DENTON and RICHARD FLORY0
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Divine Warning or Prelude to Secularization? Religion, Politics, and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey0
Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community, by WILLIAM R. JANKOWIAK0
Switch to Web-Based Surveys During COVID-19 Pandemic Left Out the Most Religious, Creating a False Impression of Rapid Religious Decline0
The Flag and The Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, by PHILIP S. GORSKI and SAMUEL L. PERRY0
The Funk of White Souls: Toward a Du Boisian Theory of the White Church0
Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America, by RANDALL BALMER0
Singlehood and Religion: The Case of Israeli Religious Zionist Singles, by ARI ENGELBERG0
Muslim Americans and the Promise of Urban Belonging, by ALISA PERKINS0
Still Soul Searching? Remapping Adolescent Religious Commitment0
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Living in Refuge: Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon, by LEONARDO SCHIOCCHET0
The Beliefs of Nonbelievers: Exclusive Empiricism and Mortal Finitude Among Atheists and Agnostics0
Powerful Devices: Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare, by ABIMBOLA A. ADELAKUN0
Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland, by KRISTY NABHAN-WARREN0
Creating the Creation Museum: How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life, by KATHLEEN C. OBERLIN0
Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley, by Carolyn Chen0
From “Civilian Clergy to Officer”: Hiring and Training Chaplains for Federal Government Positions0
The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, by RYAN P. BURGE0
Death and Religion in a Changing World, 2nd ed., edited by KATHLEEN GARCES-FOLEY0
Neoliberal Religion: Faith and Power in the Twenty-First Century, by MATTHEW GUEST0
Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion: Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945–2021, by ABBY DAY0
Preacher Woman: A Critical Look at Sexism Without Sexists, by KATIE LAUVE-MOON0
The Lives of Amish Women, by KAREN M. JOHNSON-WEINER0
“Some Vital Religion”: Social Religion and the Science of Character Education in the United States, 1918–19320
Paranormal Beliefs, Vaccine Confidence, and COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake0
Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics, by R. KHARI BROWN0
Religion at the Frontline: How Religion Influenced the Response of Local Government Officials to the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Religion, Race, and COVID-19: Confronting White Supremacy in the Pandemic, by STACEY M. FLOYD THOMAS0
Unequal Partners: In Search of Transnational Catholic Sisterhood, by CASEY RITCHIE CLEVENGER0
The False Dichotomy of Sex and Religion in America0
Thinking Outside the West: Religious Change from the Nation-State to the Global-Market Regime0
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American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the 21st Century, by SHANNON LEE DAWDY0
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God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success, by ILANA M. HORWITZ0
Islam on Campus: Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain, by ALISON SCOTTBAUMANN, MATHEW GUEST, SHURUQ NAGUIB, SARIYA CHERUVALLIL-CONTRACTOR, and AISHA PHOENIX0
Religion as a Resource in an Increasingly Polarized Society0
“Electronic Church” 2.0: Are Virtual and In-Person Attendance Associated with Mental and Physical Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic?0
The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety Among White Evangelicals, by SARAH DIEFENDORF0
Sensitizing Blinders: Theorizing Theory in a Post-Colonial Era0
After Restructuring: Understanding Religion, Nonreligion, and Spirituality in the Twenty-First Century0
Rising Security and Religious Decline: Refining and Extending Insecurity Theory0
Called to Work: Developing a Framework for Understanding Spiritual Orientations Towards Work0
The Spiritual Turn and “Feminization”: Turning a Gender Lens on Spirituality0
Sources of Inconsistency in the Measurement of Religious Affiliation: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Cognitive Interviews0
The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity, by GALEN WATTS0
What Makes Saint Martin Come Marching In? On Facilitating Holy Play0
“You Know, the Church Has Never Agreed on Everything”: Analyzing the Prophetic and Pragmatic Voice in Clergy Sermons0
Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness and Affective Politics in Pakistan by SHENILA KHOJA-MOOLJIFeeding Iran: Shi’i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic by ROSE WELLMAN0
Religion, Spirituality, and Secularity Among Millennials: The Generation Shaping American and Canadian Trends, by SARAH WILKINS-LAFLAMME0
Becoming a (Better) Muslim: A Connectivist Perspective on Learning Islam in Finland0
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Negotiating Belonging: Race, Class, and Religion in the Brazilian Quest for “Becoming American”0
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Jitters on the Eve of the Great Recession: Is the Belief in Divine Control a Protective Resource?0
Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion to the Next Generation, by CHRISTIAN SMITH and AMY ADAMCZYK0
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The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church, by KATIE GADDINI0
Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US, by ANNA PIELA0
Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society, by ISABELLA KASSELSTRAND, PHIL ZUCKERMAN, and RYAN T. CRAGUN0
Sanctified Sexism: Effects of Purity Culture Tropes on White Christian Women’s Marital and Sexual Satisfaction and Experience of Sexual Pain0
The Globalization of an Interaction Ritual Chain: “Clapping for Carers” During the Conflict Against COVID-190
Stained Glass Ceilings: How Evangelicals Do Gender and Practice Power, by LISA WEAVER SWARTZ0
Muslims, Minorities, and the Media: Discourses on Islam in the West, by LAURENS DE ROOIJ0
Protestant Missionaries Are Associated With Reduced Community Cohesion0
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College-Educated Religious Conservatives’ Support for Capital Punishment0
Correction to: Becoming Humanist: Worldview Formation and the Emergence of Atheist Britain0
The Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West, by TOBIAS CREMER0
Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels, by PAMELA J. PRICKETT0
Correction to: Paradoxes of Pluralism, Privilege, and Persecution: Explaining Christian Growth and Decline Worldwide0
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Ambivalent Accommodation: The Politics of Religious Leaders and the Hybrid Regime in Uganda0
Feminizing Patriarchy: Christian Churches and Gender Inequality in Rural Africa0
Religion and Subjective Social Class in the United States0
To Live Peaceably Together: The American Friends Service Committee’s Campaign for Open Housing, by TRACY E. K’MEYER0
Digital Religion: The Basics, by HEIDI A. CAMPBELL and WENDI BELLAR0
The Protestants’ Dilemma: When Cultural Mismatches Shape Deliberate Action0
Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools, by JEFFREY GUHIN0
Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices, by NANCY TATOM AMMERMAN0
Armed Conflict and Religious Adherence Across Countries: A Time Series Analysis0
Empty Churches: Non-Affiliation in America, edited by JAMES L. HEFT, S. M. and JAN E. STETS0
Lifeblood of the Parish, by ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA0
Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism by RICHARD BRENT TURNER0
Christian Nationalism and Opposition to Reallocating Police Funding to Other Social Services0
Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age, by AYALA FADER0
Building Faith: A Sociology of Religious Structures, by ROBERT BRENNEMAN and BRIAN J. MILLER0
Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality, by ANDREA R. JAIN0
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Theodicy and Crisis: Explaining Variation in U.S. Believers’ Faith Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Climate Politics and the Power of Religion, edited by EVAN BERRY0
Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity, by GÜLAY TÜRKMEN0
Reconnecting Religion and Community in a Small City: How Urban Amenities Afford Religious Amenities0
The Enchantment of Science: Aesthetics and Spirituality in Scientific Work0
The Faces of God’s Country: Christian Nationalism in the United States and the Implicit Association of Asian Faces with Foreignness0
What Makes Life Meaningful? Combinations of Meaningful Commitments Among Nonreligious and Religious Americans0
In This Place Called Prison. Women’s Religious Life in the Shadow of Punishment, by RACHEL ELLIS0
Getting Permission to Break the Rules: Clergy Respond to LGBTQ Exclusion in the United Methodist Church0
Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision, by DIANE WINSTON0
Correction to: Modest Dress at Work as Lived Religion: Women’s Dress in Religious Work Contexts in Saudi Arabia and the UK0
Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization, by RYAN T. CRAGUN and JESSE M. SMITH0
Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation, by LIZ BUCAR0
Inclusive and Included? Practices of Civic Inclusivity of American Muslims in Los Angeles0
Peter L. Berger on Religion: The Social Reality of Religion, by TITUS HJELM0
Modest Dress at Work as Lived Religion: Women’s Dress in Religious Work Contexts in Saudi Arabia and the UK0
Gender, Symbolic and Social Boundaries, and Deconversion from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints0
In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States, by JOHANNA BARD RICHLIN0
Eternally Damned, Yet Socially Conscious? The Volunteerism of Canadian Atheists0
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Race, Religion, and Geopolitics: Dating and Romance Among South Asian Muslim Immigrants in Canada0
Female Faith Practices. Qualitative Research Perspectives, edited by NICOLA SLEE, DAWN LLEWELLYN, KIM WASEY, LINDSEY TAYLOR-GUTHARTZ0
Racial Justice and Racialized Religion: Are Progressive White Christians Getting It Right?0
Spiritual Entrepreneurs: Florida’s Faith-based Prisons and the American Carceral State, by BRAD STODDARD0
Becoming Humanist: Worldview Formation and the Emergence of Atheist Britain0
“My Whole Life Was the Two Suburbs That Surrounded the Church”: LGBTQ+ Participation in Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches as “Greedy Institutions”0
Social Locations of Secularization and Worldview (Dis)Enchantment: Education, Income, and Belief in Religious and Paranormal Phenomena0
Challenging Modernity, by ROBERT N. BELLAH, edited by RICHARD MADSEN, WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN, ANN SWIDLER, and STEVEN M. TIPTON0
The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious, by JOSEPH BLANKHOLM0
Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power, edited by BRIAN STEENSLAND0
Religion in Plain View: Public Aesthetics of American Display, by SALLY M. PROMEY0
Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion. Spiritual Phenomena, by HUGH TURPIN0
“You Can’t Just Give People Food”: Whiteness in Practice at an Evangelical Food Pantry0
Democracy Needs Religion, by HARTMUT ROSA0
Jesus and John Wayne Wannabes: How Christian Nationalism and Femininity Shape Extreme Politics Among Men in the US0
Social Crisis and Islamist Transformation: Iraq’s Sadrism Through Bourdieu’s Homology0
Minority Churches as Media Settlers: Negotiating Deep Mediatization, by DOROTA HALL, MARTA KOŁODZIEJSKA, and KERSTIN RADDE-ANTWEILER0
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Divine Struggles Among Those Doing God’s Work: A Longitudinal Assessment Predicting Depression and Burnout and the Role of Social Support in United Methodist Clergy0
Why Do People Discriminate Against Jews?, by JONATHAN FOX & LEV TOPOR0
Public/Private Religion in Context: When Psychologists Use Religion to Invigorate Therapy0
Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality, by TODNE THOMAS0
Faith and Volunteering at Midlife: Variation by Religious Continuity, Discontinuity, or Initiation Since Childhood?0
“Many in Body, One in Mind”: The Journey of Soka Gakkai in America, by AKIRA KAWABATA and KEISHIN INABA0
Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age, by ROBERT ROZEHNAL0
What Drives Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men to Go to Work in Israel?0
Liberty for Us, Limits for Them: Christian Nationalism and Americans’ Views on Citizens’ Rights0
How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others, by T. M. LUHRMANN0
To Condemn or Not to Condemn: Perceived Climates Concerning Sexual Orientation in Black Churches0
Religious Fundamentalism: A Conceptual and Empirical Study Among Muslims of Turkish Origin in Germany0
Religion-Related Legitimations in Abortion Policy-Making in Poland. What Do They Tell Us About the Public Role of Religion?0
Civil Religion Today: Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century, by RHYS H. WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HABERSKI, JR., and PHILLIP GOFF0
Latinx Protestants and American Politics0
Rethinking Religion and Political Participation: The Case of Voting Among Religiously Unaffiliated Americans0
Religion Lived In-Between. Time, Space, and Religious Practices of Roman Catholic Women in Poland0
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