OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Age and Religiosity: Evidence from a Three-Wave Panel Analysis	158
Predicting Prejudice from Religious Fundamentalism and Right‐Wing Authoritarianism: A Multiple‐Regression Approach	144
Church-Based Emotional Support, Negative Interaction, and Psychological Well-Being: Findings from a National Sample of Presbyterians	117
Religious Involvement and Social Resources: Evidence from the Data Set "Americans' Changing Lives"	117
Trajectories of Religious Participation from Adolescence to Young Adulthood	88
Where's the Religion? Distinguishing Faith-Based from Secular Social Service Agencies	73
Changing American Congregations: Findings from the Third Wave of the National Congregations Study	54
Religious Heritage and Premarital Sex: Evidence from a National Sample of Young Adults	53
Religion and HIV Risk Behaviors Among Married Men: Initial Results from a Study in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa	52
Secularization and Religious Revival: Evidence from U.S. Church Attendance Rates, 1972-1986	52
Do Genetic Factors Influence Religious Life? Findings from a Behavior Genetic Analysis of Twin Siblings	50
Self-Esteem and Religiosity: An Analysis of Catholic Adolescents from Five Cultures	44
From Black Muslim to Bilalian: The Evolution of a Movement	44
Religious Differences in Female Genital Cutting: A Case Study from Burkina Faso	40
The Economy of Love in Religious Commitment: The Deconversion of Women from Nontraditional Religious Movements	39
Religion and Early Marriage in the United States: Evidence from the Add Health Study	35
Religious Attendance, Health Maintenance Beliefs, and Mammography Utilization: Findings from a Nationwide Survey of Presbyterian Women	32
Religiousness, Spiritual Seeking, and Authoritarianism: Findings from a Longitudinal Study	31
Mapping Religion's Other: A Review of the Study of Nonreligion and Secularity	31
From Religious to Consumption-Related Routine Activities? Analyzing Ireland's Economic Boom and the Decline in Church Attendance	27
Religion and Altruistic U.S. Foreign Policy Goals: Evidence from a National Survey of Church Members	26
Never on Sunny Days: Lessons from Weekly Attendance Counts	26
Assessing Conventional Wisdom about Religion and Politics: A Preliminary View from the Pews	26
Separating the “Sinner” from the “Sin”: Religious Orientation and Prejudiced Behavior Toward Sexual Orientation and Promiscuous Sex	26
Updating Allport's and Batson's Framework of Religious Orientations: A Reevaluation from the Perspective of Self-Determination Theory and Wulff's Social Cognitive Model	26

Religiosity, Self-Control, and Virginity Status in College Students from the “Bible Belt”: A Research Note	25
Religion and Subjective Well-Being Across Religious Traditions: Evidence from 1.3 Million Americans	24
Religious Context and Prosociality: An Experimental Study from Valparaíso, Chile	24
From Sodomy to Sympathy: LDS Elites’ Discursive Construction of Homosexuality Over Time	24
Religion and Coping: A Contribution from Religious Studies	23
Deconversion from Religious Movements: An Analysis of Charismatic Bonding and Spiritual Commitment	21
Organizational Revival From Within: Explaining Revivalismand Reform in the Roman Catholic Church	21
From the Profane to the Sacred: Ritual and Mourning at Sites of Terror and Violence	20
Alienation from Religion in Adolescents from Fundamentalist Religious Homes	19
Age and Cultural Gender Equality as Moderators of the Gender Difference in the Importance of Religion and Spirituality: Comparing the United Kingdom, France, and Germany	18
Post-Involvement Attitudes of Voluntary Defectors from Controversial New Religious Movements	17
Sleep Quality and the Stress-Buffering Role of Religious Involvement: A Mediated Moderation Analysis	17
From “Civil Religion” to Nationalism as the Religion of Modern Times: Rethinking a Complex Relationship	17
Prototypes of Faith: Findings with the Faith Q‐Sort	17
Religion and Armed Conflict: Evidence from the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey	17
Continuity in Collapse: Departures from Shiloh	17
Christian Identification and Self-Reported Depression: Evidence from China	15
Religious Pathways from Adolescence to Adulthood	14
Strangers Once More: Patterns of Disaffiliation from Mormonism	14
Religious Attendance Buffers the Impact of Unemployment on Life Satisfaction: Longitudinal Evidence from Germany	13
Testosterone, Risk Taking, and Religiosity: Evidence from Two Cultures	12
To Know and Be Known: An Intimacy-Based Explanation for the Gender Gap in Biblical Literalism	12
Quasi-Religious Meaning Systems, Official Religion, and Quality of Life in an Alternative Lifestyle: A Survey from the Back-to-the-Land Movement	12
Religious Regulation and the Courts: The Judiciary's Changing Role in Protecting Minority Religions from Majoritarian Rule	12
Does Duration of Deregulated Religious Markets Affect Church Attendance? Evidence from 26 Religious Markets in Europe and North America Between 1981 and 2006	12
Prosperity Beliefs and Value Orientations: Fueling or Suppressing Entrepreneurial Activity	12
Evangelical Environmentalists? Evidence from Brazil	11
Religiosity and Aging: Age and Cohort Effects and Their Implications for the Future of Religious Values in High‐Income OECD Countries	10
Racial Diversity in U.S. Congregations, 1998–2019	10
Reassessing the Concept and Measurement of Evangelicals: The Case for the RELTRAD Approach	10
From Church to Sect: West Indian Religious Sect Development in Britain	10
Religious Queer People Beyond Identity Conflict: Lessons from Orthodox LGBT Jews in Israel	9
Lessons from Art Theory for the Psychology of Religion	9
Digital Irreligion: Christian Deconversion in an Online Community	9
In Search of a Pulpit: Sex Differences in the Transition from Seminary Training to the First Parish Job	9
Dimensions of Commitment: Generalizing from Religion to Politics	9
Religious Change and Stability: Seasonality in Church Attendance from the 1940s to the 2000s	9
Examining the Impact of Religious Initiation Rites on Religiosity and Disaffiliation over Time	9
Religion in Public Institutions: Comparative Perspectives from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe	8
Presidential Address: Religion and Power-A Return to the Roots of Social Scientific Scholarship	8
Anxious Attachment to God, Spiritual Support, and Obesity: Findings from a Recent Nationwide Survey	8
Secularity and Irreligion in Cross‐National Context: A Nonlinear Approach	8
From Excommunication to Nullification: Testing and Extending Supply‐Side Theories of Religious Marketing with the Case of Catholic Marital Annulments	8
Where Do We Go from Here? Scenarios for the Psychology of Religion	8
Adult Life Satisfaction and the Role of Forgiveness After Childhood Sexual Abuse: Evidence from a Seventh-day Adventist Cohort	8
Catholics and the Christian Right: A View from Four States	7
Satisfaction and Morale Among Parish Clergy: What American Catholic and Orthodox Priests Can Learn from Each Other	7
From Religious Sociology to Sociology of Religion: Towards Globalisation?	7
Risk Preference Theory and Gender Differences in Religiousness: A Replication and Extension	7
Catholic Schooling and Disaffiliation from Catholicism	7

Bringing the State Back in Secularization: The Development ofLaïcitéin the French Third Republic (1875–1905)	7
"Although We are Catholic, We are Dutch"-The Transition of the Dutch Catholic Church from Sect to Church as an Explanation for its Growth and Decline	7
The Moral Community Divide: Underage Marijuana Use Across Religious Contexts	7
Rescuing the Baby from the Bathwater: Continuing the Conversation on Gender, Risk, and Religiosity	7
What Was That Sermon about? Predicting Memory for Religious Messages from Cognitive Psychology Theory	6
Constructing Images of the Divine: Latent Heterogeneity in Americans’ Impressions of God	6
Are Bivocational Clergy Becoming the New Normal? An Analysis of the Current Population Survey, 1996–2017	6
When Immigrants Take over: The Impact of Immigrant Growth on American Seventh-Day Adventism's Trajectory from Sect to Denomination	6
Does Religious Affiliation Protect People's Well‐Being? Evidence from the Great Recession after Correcting for Selection Effects	6
Dynamics of Religious Group Growth and Survival	5
Religion in Domestic Violence Prevention PSAs: The Role of Religiosity in Motivating Christian Bystanders to Intervene	5
Initial Results from a Survey of Two Cohorts of Religious Nonprofits	5
Religion and Religions in Prisons: Observations from the United States and Europe	5
Identification with Religion: Cross‐National Evidence from a Social Psychological Perspective	5
From Prophecy to Practice: Mutual Selection Cycles in the Routinization of Charismatic Authority	5
Beyond “Heartless Conservative” and “Bleeding Heart Liberal” Caricatures: How Religiosity Shapes the Relationship Between Political Orientation and Empathy	5
A Clash of Civilizations? Muslims, Christians, and Preferences for Democracy	4
Broadening the Boundaries of Church-Sect Theory: Insights from the Evolution of the Nonschismatic Mission Churches of Seventh-Day Adventism	4
Social Affiliation from Religious Disaffiliation: Evidence of Selective Mixing Among Youth with No Religious Preference During the Transition to College	4
Pathways of Religious Assimilation: Second‐Generation Asian Americans’ Religious Retention and Religiosity	4
Mosques, Churches, and Civic Skill Opportunities in Indonesia	4
Government Activity and Civil Privatism: Evidence from Voluntary Church Membership	4
From the Editor	4
Measuring Long‐Term Patterns of Political Secularization and Desecularization: Did They Happen or Not?	4
Tabulations from the 1957 Current Population Survey on Religion: A Contribution to the Demography of American Religion	4
From the Editor: Ten Most Likely Ways an Article Submission Fails to Live up to Publishing Standards	4
What's Behind the “Nones‐sense”? Change Over Time in Factors Predicting Likelihood of Religious Nonaffiliation in the United States	4
From Stability to Growth: A Study of Factors Related to the Statistical Revitalization of Southern Baptist Congregations	3
Can the State Make you More Religious? Evidence from Turkish Experience	3
Growth and Decline of Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, Pentecostals, and Charismatics in Switzerland 1970–2013	3
Religious Right, Religious Left, Both, or Neither? Understanding Religio‐Political Identification	3
"From This One Song Alone, I Consider Him to be a Holy Man": Ecstatic Religion, Musical Affect, and the Global Consumer	3
Grass-Roots Deviance from Official Doctrine: A Study of Latter-Day Saint (Mormon) Folk-Beliefs	3
From Charity to Taxes: Observations on the Sociology of Religious and Secular Giving	3
A Critical Appraisal of Amish Studies’De FactoParadigm, “Negotiating with Modernity”	3
Religious Variability in the Relationship Between Masculinity and Father Involvement	3
God, Purpose in Life, and Mental Well-Being Among Older Adults	3
Social Variables Associated with Church Attendance, 1965 and 1969: Evidence from National Polls	3
WHAT AMERICANS REALLY BELIEVE: NEW FINDINGS FROM THE BAYLOR SURVEYS OF RELIGION by Rodney Stark	3
From the Editor	3
How Religion Predicts Pet Ownership in the United States	2
From the Editor: Toward a More Internationally Inclusive Study of Religion	2
From the Editor: On Turning 50	2
David Martin in Memoriam (1929–2019)	2
Religion Data from Australia's 2016 Census: The Case of Judaism with Broader Implications for Comparisons with Earlier Census Results	2
Anomia and Religiosity: Data from a Panel Study of Middle-Aged Subjects	2
From Sacred to Secular: The Rationalization of Christian Theology	2
Post‐Critical Belief Scale and Scripture as Predictors of Prejudice	2
National Sample Questions on Religion: An Inventory of Material Available from the Roper Public Opinion Research Center	2
Religion and Charitable Donations: Experimental Evidence from Africa	2
Religiosity and Premarital Sexual Behaviors Among Adolescents: An Analysis of Functional Form	2
Religion in American Presidential Campaigns, 1952–2016: Applying a New Framework for Understanding Candidate Communication	2
Spillover Effects of Scandals on Exits from the Catholic and Protestant Churches in Germany	1
A Multidimensional Model of Religiosity from Adolescence through the Transition to Adulthood	1
From Christ to Compassion: The Changing Language of Pastoral Care	1
The View of Religions from Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives	1
From Symbolic Realism to Structuralism	1
Response: How Do We Know What We Know About the Amish and Other Minorities?	1
Group Identification and Support for the Supreme Court: Evidence from Evangelical Protestants	1
Your Own Personal Jesus? Doctrinal Beliefs Versus Personal Spirituality Among Inmates Involved in the Monastery Route in Swedish Prisons	1
The Question of Cultural Change in the Social Scientific Study of Religion: Notes from the Emerging Church	1
American Church/State Jurisprudence from the Warren Court to the Rehnquist Court	1
From the Editor: We Found a New Way to Do a Special Section	1
Escape from Loneliness	1
NETWORKS AND RELIGION: TIES THAT BIND, LOOSE, BUILD‐UP, AND TEAR DOWN. By Sean F. Everton. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxiv + 389 pp. $94.27 cloth, $32.72 paper, $28.00 eBook.	1
Plagues, Pagans, and Christians: Differential Survival, Social Networks, and the Rise of Christianity	1
Are Religions for Sale? Evidence from the Swedish Church Revolt Over Same‐Sex Marriage	1
Religion‐State Interaction at the Local Level: Key Findings from a Survey of Religion and Local Elected Officials	1
The Dynamics of Religious Practice in Spain from the Mid-19th Century to 2010	1
From the Editor: On Prayer-and Other Manifestations of Religion in Everyday Life	1
Religious Affiliations and Homicide: Historical Results from the Rural South	1
From the Editor: The Scientific Study of Religion as a Multi-Disciplinary Enterprise	1
Still Opting for the Poor: The Brazilian Catholic Church and the National Movement of the Street Population	1
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Are the Religiously Observant Discriminated Against in the Rental Housing Market? Experimental Evidence from Israel	1