Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion is 1. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Religion Protected Mental Health but Constrained Crisis Response During Crucial Early Days of the COVID‐19 Pandemic45
Changes in Religious Doubt and Physical and Mental Health in Emerging Adulthood30
Racial Diversity in U.S. Congregations, 1998–201924
Introducing the Fourth Wave of the National Congregations Study20
Zooming In and Out of Virtual Jewish Prayer Services During the COVID‐19 Pandemic15
Mattering to God and to the Congregation: Gendered Effects in Mattering as a Mechanism Between Religiosity and Mental Health14
Gender, Sexuality, and Religion: A Critical Integrative Review and Agenda for Future Research13
Explaining Unfavorable Attitudes Toward Religious Out‐Groups Among Three Major Religions13
Changing Worship Practices in American Congregations11
Differences in Mortality Rates between Haredi and Non‐Haredi Jews in Israel in the Context of Social Characteristics11
National Context, Parental Socialization, and the Varying Relationship Between Religious Belief and Practice11
Racialized Religion and Judicial Injustice: How Whiteness and Biblicist Christianity Intersect to Promote a Preference for (Unjust) Punishment11
Why Younger Catholics Seem More Committed: Survivorship Bias and/or “Creative Minority” Effects among British Catholics11
One Conception of Secularism for All? A Comparison of Conceptions of Laïcité among Nonbelievers, Catholics, and Muslims in France10
COVID‐19's effects upon the religious group resources, psychosocial resources, and mental health of Orthodox Jews10
The National Survey of Religious Leaders: Background, Methods, and Lessons Learned in the Research Process10
The Political Mobilization of America's Congregations10
Is There a Crisis in Clergy Health?: Reorienting Research Using a National Sample9
Religion and Spirituality among American Indian, South Asian, Black, Hispanic/Latina, and White Women in the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health9
A Complex Simplicity: The Relationship of Religiosity and Nonreligiosity to Life Satisfaction9
Can the State Make you More Religious? Evidence from Turkish Experience9
A Tale of Decline or Change? Working Toward a Complementary Understanding of Secular Transition and Individual Spiritualization Theories9
Prayer in America: A Detailed Analysis of the Various Dimensions of Prayer9
Attachment to God and Psychological Distress: Evidence of a Curvilinear Relationship8
Does Religious Affiliation Protect People's Well‐Being? Evidence from the Great Recession after Correcting for Selection Effects8
Projecting Religious Demographics: The Case of Jews in the United States8
Trust and Trustworthiness of Christians, Muslims, and Atheists/Agnostics in the United States8
Born‐Again Versus Evangelical: Does the Difference Make a Difference?7
Opposing Immigrants in Europe: The Interplay Between Religiosity, Values, and Threat7
Individual Differences in Religious Motivation Influence How People Think7
Individuals’ Use of Religion in Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic as Complementary to Their Use of Medically Recommended Responses7
Historical Fundamentalism? Christian Nationalism and Ignorance About Religion in American Political History7
Religious trajectories of immigrants in the first years after migration7
Measuring Religiosity of East Asians: Multiple Religious Belonging, Believing, and Practicing6
The Politics of 130,000 American Religious Leaders: A New Methodological Approach6
Multiple (Non)Religious Identities Leads to Undercounting Religious Nones and Asian Religious Identities6
Threatening Morality: Religious and Political Opposition to Science in the United States6
Flowing Across with Demonic Hate: Belief in Supernatural Evil and Support for Stricter Immigration Policy6
Psychological Resilience After Cancer via Religion/Spirituality: Spiritual Capital Through a Life Course Lens5
Measuring Fundamentalism Across the Abrahamic Faiths5
The Association between Religious Discrimination and Health: Disaggregating by Types of Discrimination Experiences, Religious Tradition, and Forms of Health5
Shifting Religious Influences on Attitudes Towards Same‐Sex Behavior and Civil Liberties: A Multilevel Across‐Time Analysis5
Coping with an Evil World: Contextualizing the Stress‐Buffering Role of Scripture Reading5
The Discursive and Practical Influence of Spirituality on Civic Engagement5
Is There a Bidirectional Causal Relationship Between Religiosity and Volunteering?5
Political Congregations, Race, and Environmental Policy Attitudes4
What Aspects of Religiosity are Associated with Values?4
Fluidity of Faith: Predictors of Religion in a Longitudinal Sample of Chinese Adults4
The Duality of American Christian Nationalism: Religious Traditionalism versus Christian Statism4
A Multidimensional Model of Religiosity from Adolescence through the Transition to Adulthood4
Counting on Whiteness: Religion, race, ethnicity, and the politics of Jewish demography4
The Resilience of Clergywomen?: Gender and the Relationship between Occupational Distress and Mental Health among Congregational Leaders4
Trust in Religious Leaders and Voluntary Compliance: Lessons from Social Distancing during COVID‐19 in Central Asia4
The Zeal of the Convert Revisited4
2021 SSSR Presidential Address: Religion as Social Location—Global and Comparative Perspectives4
Understanding the Diversity of Catholic Higher Education: A New Empirical Guide for Evaluating the Influence of Catholic Identity4
“Ye Double‐Minded”: Black Parishioners’ Attitudes toward Nonaffirming Church Climates4
Losing My Religion as a Natural Experiment: How State Pressure and Taxes Led to Church Disaffiliations between 1940 and 2010 in Germany4
Religion and Refugee Well‐Being: The Importance of Inclusive Community4
Religion Data from Australia's 2016 Census: The Case of Judaism with Broader Implications for Comparisons with Earlier Census Results4
Linking Evangelical Subculture and Phallically Insecure Masculinity Using Google Searches for Male Enhancement3
Masculinity, Femininity, and Reported Paranormal Beliefs3
Rest for Your Souls? Religion, Meaning, and Purpose in Life, and Sleep Quality in the United States3
Congregation Shopping During the Pandemic: A Research Note3
Religion and Charitable Donations: Experimental Evidence from Africa3
Denominational Differences in Obesity Among Black Christian Adults: Why Gender and Life Stage Matter3
Do Religious/Spiritual Resources Moderate the Association Between Suffering and Religious/Spiritual Struggles? A Three‐Wave Longitudinal Study of US Adults with Chronic Illness3
Belief in Hell and Parenting Priorities Concerning Child Independence and Obedience: Does Economic Context Matter?3
The Relationship between Workplace Status and Workplace Religious Expression3
Importance of Religion after Adversity3
Mental Health Correlates of Sharing Private Problems in Congregations during the COVID‐19 Pandemic3
Reasons for Leaving: Causes and Initial Triggers for Disaffiliation from Orthodox Judaism3
On Weber, Pathogens, and Culture: A Global Empirical Analysis of Religion and Individualism3
Does Religious Group Population Share Affect the Religiosity of the Next Generation?3
Religion, Family, and Career among Graduate Students in the Sciences3
Development of the Spiritual Harm and Abuse Scale3
Christ, Country, and Conspiracies? Christian Nationalism, Biblical Literalism, and Belief in Conspiracy Theories3
Religious Fundamentalism and Quest as Predictors of Moral Foundations Among Iranian Muslims3
Racial and Religious Convergences and Divergences among Christian Students’ Approaches to Color‐Blindness, Color‐Cognizance, and Race in Christian Organizations2
“Not Being Counted”: Women's Place and Religious Space in Jewish Orthodox Communities During the COVID‐19 Crisis2
Trust in God: The COVID‐19 Pandemic's Impact on Religiosity in China2
Is the Catholic Church in America Experiencing Internal Secularization? Priests’ Assessments of Pope Francis and the Condition of the Church2
The Connection between Perceived Workplace Discrimination and Viewing Work as a Spiritual Calling2
Socioeconomic Advantage or Community Attachment? A Register‐Based Study on the Difference in National Lutheran Church Affiliation Between Finnish and Swedish Speakers in Finland2
How Do Religion and Sexual Orientation Affect Support for U.S. Presidential Candidates? Evidence from a Survey Experiment2
The Religious Right and Russia: Christian Nationalism and Americans’ Views on Russia and Vladimir Putin Before and After the Ukrainian Invasion2
Analysis of Religious Bias among Christian Students in Science2
Religion, Politics, and Public Funding for Abortion2
Religion, Punitive Sentiment, and the Mediating Effect of Racial Resentment2
Explaining the Relationship between Religiosity and Political Participation: The Mediating Roles of Transcendent Accountability and Religiopolitical Awareness2
From Christ to Compassion: The Changing Language of Pastoral Care2
The consequences of response options: Including both “Protestant” and “Christian” on surveys2
Controlling the Past to Control the Future: Christian Nationalism and Mandatory Patriotic Education in Public Schools2
Examining Average Age at First Marriage within Orthodox Judaism: A Large Community‐Based Study2
Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Religiosity: Evidence from Germany2
Spillover Effects of Scandals on Exits from the Catholic and Protestant Churches in Germany2
Liberal sexual morality, religion, and attitudes toward abortion in Turkey2
Religiosity and Secular and Ascetic Deviance2
When to Preach About Poverty: How Location, Race, and Ideology Shape White Evangelical Sermons2
The Ideological and Religious Bases of Attitudes Toward Pope Francis in the United States2
Evangelical Civil War on the College Campus, White Evangelical Right Framing Resistance to Racial Justice in 2020s America2
Religious Homogamy and Marital Satisfaction in South Korea: Exploring Variations across Religious Groups1
Religious Geography and County‐Level Sex Ratios in China1
Has the New Natalism Reduced the Religious Fertility Advantage?1
Intersections of Feminist Identification and Hostile Sexism1
Changes in Politics and Religiosity Among Students at a Protestant University1
How Do Parents Choose Schools for Their Children? Experimental Evidence from the Private Christian School Sector1
Survey Zoroastrians: Online Religious Identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran1
In God We Distrust: Christian Nationalism and Anti‐Atheist Attitude1
Religious Service Attendance and Religious and Secular Organizational Engagement in the United Kingdom1
Cross‐Cultural Commonalities in Religiosity by Measurement Invariance1
Religious Markets Under Heavy Regulation: Diversification as a Survival Strategy of the Catholic Church in Communist Countries1
Examining religious/spiritual change among women with metastatic breast cancer1
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Functions of the Black Church in a Global Society: A Du Boisian Approach1
How Exceptional Is the West? An Investigation of Worldwide Trends in Societal‐Average Levels of Religiosity, 1981–20201
Masculine God Imagery and Sense of Life Purpose: Examining Contingencies with America's “Four Gods”1
Religion‐State Interaction at the Local Level: Key Findings from a Survey of Religion and Local Elected Officials1
Expanding the Horizontal Call: A Typology of Social Influence on the Call to Ministry1
“Too Much to Hope”: Analyzing Clergy Rhetoric on White Supremacy1
Does Leaving Faith Mean Leaving Family? Longitudinal Associations Between Religious Identification and Parent‐Child Relationships Across Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood1
The Others: Finding and Counting America's Invisible Churches1
The Sociological Spirituality of W. E. B. Du Bois's Prayers for Dark People1
The Digitalization of Religion: Smartphone Use and Subjective Well‐Being during COVID‐191
“Like Little Knives, Stabbing Me”: The Impact of Microaggressions on LGBTQ+ Teens and Their Parents in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‐Day Saints1
Economy of Shadows: The Effects of Restrictive Regulation on Religiosity in China1
Race, Religion, and Death: How Racial Attitudes Contextualize the Relationship Between Religion and Support for Capital Punishment1
Classifying Muslims: Contextualizing Religion and Race in the United Kingdom and Germany1
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Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter: Assessing the Association between Sermon Content and Racial Justice Attitudes and Behaviors1
Gender‐Based Perspectives on Professional Healthcare Chaplaincy Board Certification1
The Cost of Being Christian: The Association between Christian Affiliation and Discrimination Experiences among Asians in the United States1
Religious Correlates of Religious Victimization in Youth: Findings from Two Nationally Representative Surveys1
Religious Identity‐Inconsistent Attending: Its Correlates and Political Implications1
Comparing Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians’ Religious and Political Beliefs Across Latin America and Sub‐Saharan Africa1
What Influenced Early Secularization? A Statistical Analysis of the Results of the 1923 Referendum in Estonia1
Conservative Protestantism, Sexual Insecurity, and Masculine Discrepancy Stress1
We Do Not Think It Means What They Think It Means: A Response to Thunström et al1
Diversity in Religiosity Undermines Conventional Personal Morality Across the Globe: Evidence From 90 Nations, 300,000+ Individuals1
Do Religious Politicians Take Risks Differently? Evidence From Pakistan1
Divine Relations as a Basis of Subjective Social Status During Later‐Life: Direct and Moderating Effects1
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