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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Influence of State Favoritism on Established Religions and Their Competitors	35
Lazarev Egor. State-building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya by Cambridge University Press, 2023. xvi+322. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $34.99. Paper. ISBN 9781009245913	16
The varieties of American Christian nationalism	12
Religion in Indonesia's Elections: An Implementation of a Populist Strategy?	8
Holy day surveys and political attitudes in Israel	7
Whatever happened to new atheism? The rise and fall of the U.S. atheist movement	7
Political Budget Cycles in Autocracies: The Role of Religious Seasons and Political Collective Action	7
Do discriminatory laws have societal origins? The diffusion of anti-Ahmadiyah regulations in Indonesia	6
The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan By Arsalan Khan. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2024. 240 pp. $31.95 paperback.	6
From the Communists and Post-Communists Alike: State-Paid Salaries of the Clergy in the Czech Lands 1949–2012	6
(In)stability in American public attitudes toward Jews: a panel analysis	5
Islamic doctrine and women's economic rights: implications of an ambiguous relationship for state policy in the Muslim world	5
Coethnicity Beyond Clientelism: Insights from an Experimental Study of Political Behavior in Lebanon	5
Support for Domestic Islamist Terrorism in Bangladesh: Insights from a Novel Survey	5
An organizational perspective on fading system-ness: Insights from Ennahda’s post-specialization period (2016–2021)	4
From the Specter of Polygamy to the Spectacle of Postcoloniality: A Response to Bai on Confucianism, Liberalism, and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate	4
Which political entities are “Friendly” to religion? The interplay of entity, identity congruence, and Christian nationalism	4
Christian Interest Groups in A Religiously Changing United Kingdom: Issues, Strategies, Influence	4
Pope Francis as an influential leader? How papal statements affect public attitudes toward anti-poverty measures	4
Globalization and religious resurgence: a comparative analysis	4
RAP volume 15 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
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Catholicism, Pluralism and American Democracy	3
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.	3
Christian democracy as political spirituality: transcendence as transformation—Italian politics, 1942–1953	3

Division on the Christian right: Republican pastors and the use of force	3
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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	3
Toward electoral (ir)relevance of moral traditionalism? Religious decline and voting in Western Europe (1981–2017)	3
Neither secular nor sectarian: perspectives on social life and politics among Beirut's religiously devout youth	3
Preparedness Behavior and the apocalypse: religion and politics in the post 2020 election era	2
A spiritual call: the courses of action taken by individuals influenced by religious soft power	2
Racial Limitations on the Gender, Risk, Religion, and Politics Model	2
“Je suis … Charlie, Samuel, Muhammed”: Practicing Muhammed Cartoons in Far Right and Islamist Politics	2
RAP volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
Social activism against the desecularization of non-religious state education in Israel: a social movement lens	2
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	2
What do we know about religion and interreligious peace? A review of the quantitative literature	2
Evangelical attitudes toward Syrian refugees: are evangelicals distinctive in their opposition to Syrian refugees to the United States?	2
Clergy-lay political (mis)alignment in 2019–2020	2
Mapping the concept of fundamentalism: a scoping review	2
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Islamic religious behaviors and civic engagement in Europe and North America	2
Making America Exceptional Again: Donald Trump's Traditionalist Jeremiad, Civil Religion, and the Politics of Resentment	1
Chaplains and the legitimacy of drone warfare: experimental evidence from the US Army	1
Early stirrings of modern liberty in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas	1
From the Communists and Post-Communists Alike: State-Paid Salaries of the Clergy in the Czech Lands 1949–2012—ERRATUM	1
RAP volume 15 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
Free Exercise of Religion in the Liberal Polity: Conflicting Interpretations By Emily R. Gill. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 296 pp. $109 cloth.	1
Populism and religion: an intricate and varying relationship	1
RAP volume 15 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
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	1
Politics and preaching: how religious elites justify addressing or avoiding political topics	1
Perceived threat and demographic misperception	1
Religious citizens, secular states: why do states in sub-Saharan Africa provide minimal support to religion?	1
The politics of church shopping	1
Neutralizing the sacred space: pre-election messages in a typical Indonesian city	1
Church and state in contemporary China: securing Christianity	1
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God is Green: The Catholic Church's Re-Imagination of Environmental Norms	1
Views on political Islam among Australian converts to Islam: findings of a national survey	1
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.	1
Liberalism of religious Muslims in illiberal Muslim-majority and minority societies: evidence from Azerbaijan and Georgia	1
A Content Analysis of the Friday Sermons of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs in Germany (DİTİB)	1
Christian nationalism and support for leaders violating democratic norms during national emergencies	0
Of Pilgrimages and Restorations: Religion, Heritage and Politics in divided Cyprus – CORRIGENDUM	0
Israel: a novel wedge issue in Canadian electoral politics	0
Dieu dans la commune: religion and voting in the 2017 French election	0
Religious Freedom in the City Pool: Gender Segregation, Partisanship, and the Construction of Symbolic Boundaries	0
Assessing the Effect of Media Tone on Attitudes Toward Muslims: Evidence From an Online Experiment	0
The sacred gun: the religious and magical elements of America's gun culture	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
Time for religion? Liberalism, Haredi Jews, and state regulation of nonpublic schools	0
“The worker deserves his wages”? Religion and support for organized labor in the U.S. Senate	0

The ingroup love and outgroup hate of Christian Nationalism: experimental evidence about the implementation of the rule of law	0
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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.	0
Differentiation of religiosity and its effects on biopolitical orientations among Catholics: evidence from Poland	0
Of pilgrimages and restorations: religion, heritage and politics in divided Cyprus	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
Christian churches and social welfare in secular times: How goal congruence shapes religious involvement in morality-based social services	0
Ministering to the Middle: Christian Megachurches and Minoritarian Politics in Southeast Asia	0
The Psychometric Properties of the Christian Nationalism Scale	0
Fighting against assisted dying in Spain: catholic-inspired civic mobilization during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
The Froman Peace Campaign: Pluralism in Judeo-Islamic Theology and Politics	0
Vineeta Yadav, Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 384p. $86.00 cloth.	0
Contributors to This Issue	0
“I Will Bless Those Who Bless You”: Evangelicalism and Support for Israel in Latin America	0
Sacred speech: analyzing the influence of congressional leadership on religious rhetoric	0
“I Will Bless Those Who Bless You”: Evangelicalism and Support for Israel in Latin America—ADDENDUM	0
Good citizens: legitimization strategies of new religious movements in Israel	0
Which civil religion? Partisanship, Christian nationalism, and the dimensions of civil religion in the United States	0
Do we need a radical redefinition of secularism? A critique of Charles Taylor	0
On Salafism. Concepts and Contexts By Azmi Bishara. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. vii+228 pp. $60.00 hardcover.	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
Improving the measurement of biblical interpretation in social science research	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
A Short Scale for Measuring Political Secularism	0
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A colorblind Christian country? How racial attitudes affect support for Christian nationalism and civil religion	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
Identification of Cross-Country Similarities and Differences in Regulation of Religion Between 2000 and 2014 with Help of Cluster Analysis	0
Religion, spirituality, and susceptibility to conspiracy theories: examining the role of analytic thinking and post-critical beliefs	0
Faith-based organizations and religious nationalism	0
Religiosity matters: assessing competing explanations of support for secularism in Quebec and Canada	0
Nation-Statist Soteriology and Traditions of Defeat: Religious-Zionism, the Ninth of Av, and Jerusalem Day	0
Political responsiveness and centralized religious leaders: lessons from the Catholic Church	0
Does it Matter if the President Isn't Pious? White Evangelicals and Elite Religiosity in the Trump Era	0
Religious Appeals in Power Politics By Peter S. Henne. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. 222 pp. $27.95 paperback.	0
Asymmetric conflation: QAnon and the political cooptation of religion	0
The Effects of Race and the Prosperity Gospel on Politics in the Trump Era	0
Contributors to This Issue	0
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Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940 By Margaret Chowning. Princeton University Press, 2023. 376 pp. $45.00 hardcover, $32.00 paperback.	0
Arrival of legal Salafism and struggle for recognition in Germany—reflection and adaptation processes within the German da'wa movement between 2001 and 2022	0
The relationship between state-provided Islamic education and Islamism	0
Christian religiosity and nativism: populist government participation as an influencing factor?	0
The regulation of religion in public spaces	0
The power politics of the Holy See: the church, the state, and its citizens	0
Prayer as socialist praxis: religion and recommitment for Hermann Cohen and the doubly marked martyrs of the November revolution in Germany	0
The Partisanship of Protestant Clergy in the 2016 Presidential Election	0
Racial Attitudes and Political Preferences Among Black and White Evangelicals	0
Supporting the Right to Wear Religious Symbols: The Importance of Perceived Commitment to the Nation	0
Nationalism and Conservatism in Neopagan Movements: The Case of PolishRodzimowierstwo	0
The cycle of monasticism: understanding the nature of medieval economic and political innovation	0
The shifting Christian right discourse on religious freedom in Australia	0
Was there an enthusiasm gap? Examining support for Donald Trump among evangelicals and nonevangelicals	0
When do progressive evangelicals mobilize? Intra-denominational competing identities in Chile's constitutional process	0
Who Supported the Early Muslim Brotherhood?	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
Political Survival through Religious Instrumentalism: Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam Fazlur Rehman's Resistance to Madrassah Reforms in Pakistan	0
Divine attribution? The interaction of religious and secular beliefs on climate change attitudes	0
Explaining the distinction between religious and political activism in Islamism: evidence from the Tunisian case	0
Explaining the relationship between religiosity and anti-diversity attitudes among Christians in Western Germany	0
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.	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
Amicus Curiae Briefs and the Competing Legal Agendas of White Protestants in the United States, 1969–2020	0
Similar yet not the Same: Right-Wing Populist Parties' Stances on Religion in Germany and the Netherlands	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
Membership in a stigmatized religious minority and political support: nonreligious individuals running for office in the United States	0