OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Politics and 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
RAP volume 14 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	26
RAP volume 15 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	15
Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State By Anna M. Grzymała-Busse. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2023. 256 pp. $99.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback	11
Disciples of the State? Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World. By Kristin Fabbe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xxi + 291 pp. $99.99 cloth. $34.99 paper	9
The Influence of State Favoritism on Established Religions and Their Competitors	9
Ministering to the Middle: Christian Megachurches and Minoritarian Politics in Southeast Asia	7
Religious Freedom in the City Pool: Gender Segregation, Partisanship, and the Construction of Symbolic Boundaries	7
On Salafism. Concepts and Contexts By Azmi Bishara. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. vii+228 pp. $60.00 hardcover.	6
Religious Appeals in Power Politics By Peter S. Henne. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. 222 pp. $27.95 paperback.	4
The politics of church shopping	4
Religion in Indonesia's Elections: An Implementation of a Populist Strategy?	4
Good citizens: legitimization strategies of new religious movements in Israel	4
Catholicism, Pluralism and American Democracy	4
Neither secular nor sectarian: perspectives on social life and politics among Beirut's religiously devout youth	3
Religion, spirituality, and susceptibility to conspiracy theories: examining the role of analytic thinking and post-critical beliefs	3
Membership in a stigmatized religious minority and political support: nonreligious individuals running for office in the United States	3
The Partisanship of Protestant Clergy in the 2016 Presidential Election	3
Division on the Christian right: Republican pastors and the use of force	3
Liberalism of religious Muslims in illiberal Muslim-majority and minority societies: evidence from Azerbaijan and Georgia	3
The U.S. Christian Right and Pro-Family Politics in 21st Century Africa By Haley McEwen. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, 2024. xiv+144 pp. $49.99 hardcover, $34.99 e-book.	3
Time for religion? Liberalism, Haredi Jews, and state regulation of nonpublic schools	2
A Secular Age Beyond the West: Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Edited by Mirjam Künkler, John Madeley, and Shylashri Shankar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pre	2
RAP volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	2
Arrival of legal Salafism and struggle for recognition in Germany—reflection and adaptation processes within the German da'wa movement between 2001 and 2022	2
RAP volume 15 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2

Explaining the relationship between religiosity and anti-diversity attitudes among Christians in Western Germany	2
Populism and religion: an intricate and varying relationship	2
Political Budget Cycles in Autocracies: The Role of Religious Seasons and Political Collective Action	2
Surviving Repression: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood after the 2013 Coup By Lucia Ardovini. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. 168 pp., £ 80.00, cloth, ISBN 978-1-5261-4929-9.	2
Racial Attitudes and Political Preferences Among Black and White Evangelicals	1
The Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West By Tobias Cremer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 350 pp. $29.99 paperback.	1
Identification of Cross-Country Similarities and Differences in Regulation of Religion Between 2000 and 2014 with Help of Cluster Analysis	1
Making America Exceptional Again: Donald Trump's Traditionalist Jeremiad, Civil Religion, and the Politics of Resentment	1
Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq By David Patel. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. 240 pp. $33.95 paperback.	1
RAP volume 15 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
Do we need a radical redefinition of secularism? A critique of Charles Taylor	1
RAP volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Of Pilgrimages and Restorations: Religion, Heritage and Politics in divided Cyprus – CORRIGENDUM	1
From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa By Gwyneth H. McClendon and Rachel Beatty Riedl. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xii+ 274 pp. $39.99 clot	1
Clergy-lay political (mis)alignment in 2019–2020	1
Assessing the Effect of Media Tone on Attitudes Toward Muslims: Evidence From an Online Experiment	1
Holy day surveys and political attitudes in Israel	1
The cycle of monasticism: understanding the nature of medieval economic and political innovation	1
A spiritual call: the courses of action taken by individuals influenced by religious soft power	1
Mapping the concept of fundamentalism: a scoping review	1
RAP volume 15 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
RAP volume 15 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
A Political Profile of U.S. Pagans	1
“I Will Bless Those Who Bless You”: Evangelicalism and Support for Israel in Latin America—ADDENDUM	0
The Effects of Race and the Prosperity Gospel on Politics in the Trump Era	0
Racial Limitations on the Gender, Risk, Religion, and Politics Model	0
Religious tolerance in the Arab Gulf states: Christian organizations, soft power, and the politics of sustaining the “family–state” beyond the rentier model	0
Support for Domestic Islamist Terrorism in Bangladesh: Insights from a Novel Survey	0
Preparedness Behavior and the apocalypse: religion and politics in the post 2020 election era	0
Dieu dans la commune: religion and voting in the 2017 French election	0
Christian churches and social welfare in secular times: How goal congruence shapes religious involvement in morality-based social services	0
Does it Matter if the President Isn't Pious? White Evangelicals and Elite Religiosity in the Trump Era	0
RAP volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
The power politics of the Holy See: the church, the state, and its citizens	0
“Je suis … Charlie, Samuel, Muhammed”: Practicing Muhammed Cartoons in Far Right and Islamist Politics	0
Which civil religion? Partisanship, Christian nationalism, and the dimensions of civil religion in the United States	0
Political responsiveness and centralized religious leaders: lessons from the Catholic Church	0
Do discriminatory laws have societal origins? The diffusion of anti-Ahmadiyah regulations in Indonesia	0
Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of this World By Taylor C. Boas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. ix+317 pp. $99.99 cloth.	0
The Psychometric Properties of the Christian Nationalism Scale	0
Religious Minorities at Risk By Matthias Basedau, Jonathan Fox and Ariel Zellman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. viii-326 pp. $83, hardcover	0
RAP volume 15 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
(In)stability in American public attitudes toward Jews: a panel analysis	0
From the Specter of Polygamy to the Spectacle of Postcoloniality: A Response to Bai on Confucianism, Liberalism, and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate	0
“I Will Bless Those Who Bless You”: Evangelicalism and Support for Israel in Latin America	0
Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics. By R. Khari Brown, Ronald E. Brown, and James S. Jackson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2021. xii+167 pp. $70.00 cloth.; Decodi	0
Islamic doctrine and women's economic rights: implications of an ambiguous relationship for state policy in the Muslim world	0
Israel: a novel wedge issue in Canadian electoral politics	0
The Froman Peace Campaign: Pluralism in Judeo-Islamic Theology and Politics	0
Neutralizing the sacred space: pre-election messages in a typical Indonesian city	0

Contributors to This Issue	0
The relationship between state-provided Islamic education and Islamism	0
From the Communists and Post-Communists Alike: State-Paid Salaries of the Clergy in the Czech Lands 1949–2012	0
The sacred gun: the religious and magical elements of America's gun culture	0
Nation-Statist Soteriology and Traditions of Defeat: Religious-Zionism, the Ninth of Av, and Jerusalem Day	0
Prayer as socialist praxis: religion and recommitment for Hermann Cohen and the doubly marked martyrs of the November revolution in Germany	0
God is Green: The Catholic Church's Re-Imagination of Environmental Norms	0
Mobilizing the Religious Left: Linking the Movement to Individual Political Activity	0
Coethnicity Beyond Clientelism: Insights from an Experimental Study of Political Behavior in Lebanon	0
Views on political Islam among Australian converts to Islam: findings of a national survey	0
The Cambridge Companion to the First Amendment and Religious Liberty Edited by Michael D. Breidenbach and Owen Anderson. Cambridge, UK, and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Xii+4	0
A Short Scale for Measuring Political Secularism	0
Early stirrings of modern liberty in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas	0
Christian Interest Groups in A Religiously Changing United Kingdom: Issues, Strategies, Influence	0
When do progressive evangelicals mobilize? Intra-denominational competing identities in Chile's constitutional process	0
Islamic religious behaviors and civic engagement in Europe and North America	0
Asymmetric conflation: QAnon and the political cooptation of religion	0
RAP volume 14 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
Orbán Urbi et Orbi: Christianity as a Nodal Point of Radical-right Populism	0
The Devil That You Know: Christian Nationalism and Intent to Change One's Voting Behavior For or Against Trump in 2020	0
Contributors to this Issue	0
Political Survival through Religious Instrumentalism: Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam Fazlur Rehman's Resistance to Madrassah Reforms in Pakistan	0
Religious citizens, secular states: why do states in sub-Saharan Africa provide minimal support to religion?	0
Contributors to This Issue	0
Free Exercise of Religion in the Liberal Polity: Conflicting Interpretations By Emily R. Gill. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 296 pp. $109 cloth.	0
Who Supported the Early Muslim Brotherhood?	0
Toward electoral (ir)relevance of moral traditionalism? Religious decline and voting in Western Europe (1981–2017)	0
Amicus Curiae Briefs and the Competing Legal Agendas of White Protestants in the United States, 1969–2020	0
“The worker deserves his wages”? Religion and support for organized labor in the U.S. Senate	0
Globalization and religious resurgence: a comparative analysis	0
Explaining the distinction between religious and political activism in Islamism: evidence from the Tunisian case	0
Differentiation of religiosity and its effects on biopolitical orientations among Catholics: evidence from Poland	0
Christian democracy as political spirituality: transcendence as transformation—Italian politics, 1942–1953	0
Religiosity matters: assessing competing explanations of support for secularism in Quebec and Canada	0
Pope Francis as an influential leader? How papal statements affect public attitudes toward anti-poverty measures	0
Improving the measurement of biblical interpretation in social science research	0
From the Communists and Post-Communists Alike: State-Paid Salaries of the Clergy in the Czech Lands 1949–2012—ERRATUM	0
Church and state in contemporary China: securing Christianity	0
Nationalism and Conservatism in Neopagan Movements: The Case of PolishRodzimowierstwo	0
Was there an enthusiasm gap? Examining support for Donald Trump among evangelicals and nonevangelicals	0
Similar yet not the Same: Right-Wing Populist Parties' Stances on Religion in Germany and the Netherlands	0
Guardian of the Wall: Leo Pfeffer and the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment By J. David Holcomb. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. viii + 246. $111.00 cloth.	0
The ingroup love and outgroup hate of Christian Nationalism: experimental evidence about the implementation of the rule of law	0
Ethno-Religious Identification and Support for Interreligious Violence: A Study of Muslim and Christian Students in Indonesia and the Philippines	0
Of pilgrimages and restorations: religion, heritage and politics in divided Cyprus	0
Vineeta Yadav, Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 384p. $86.00 cloth.	0
A Content Analysis of the Friday Sermons of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs in Germany (DİTİB)	0
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940 By Margaret Chowning. Princeton University Press, 2023. 376 pp. $45.00 hardcover, $32.00 paperback.	0
Perceived threat and demographic misperception	0
The Origins of Secular Institutions: Ideas, Timing, and Organization By H. Zeynep Bulutgil. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. 272 pp. $32.99 paperback.	0
RAP volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
RAP volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Divine attribution? The interaction of religious and secular beliefs on climate change attitudes	0
Evangelical attitudes toward Syrian refugees: are evangelicals distinctive in their opposition to Syrian refugees to the United States?	0
Politics and preaching: how religious elites justify addressing or avoiding political topics	0
Supporting the Right to Wear Religious Symbols: The Importance of Perceived Commitment to the Nation	0
The regulation of religion in public spaces	0
The shifting Christian right discourse on religious freedom in Australia	0
Who leads the flock? Religion and the radical right among Brazilian migrants	0
Love and the Winter: C.S. Lewis, Nigel Biggar, and Marc LiVecche on Enemy Love	0
Religious Authority in a Democratic Society: Clergy and Citizen Evidence from a New Measure	0
What do we know about religion and interreligious peace? A review of the quantitative literature	0
A colorblind Christian country? How racial attitudes affect support for Christian nationalism and civil religion	0
Christian nationalism and support for leaders violating democratic norms during national emergencies	0
Fighting against assisted dying in Spain: catholic-inspired civic mobilization during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
RAP volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Which political entities are “Friendly” to religion? The interplay of entity, identity congruence, and Christian nationalism	0
An Epidemic among My People: Religion, Politics, and COVID-19 in the United States By Paul A. Djupe and Amanda Friesen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2023. 322 pp. $115.50 hardcover, $	0