OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Compass 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.)

Article	Citations
‘When I told my parents I was going to marry a Muslim…’: Social perception and attitudes towards intermarriage in Italy, France and Belgium	18
Les politiques subtiles du faire autrement: Référents spirituels et militantisme progressiste en Suisse	12
I don’t think it ought to be blasphemy: Transing God(s) and post-life gender	12
Spirituality and social engagement	11
Le bouddhisme à Taïwan : quelle influence après trois décennies de transition démocratique ?	11
Does agnosticism precede atheism? Investigating the question in the context of Western European countries	10
Above and beyond social boundaries: Everyday life of Mixed Muslim–non-Muslim families in contemporary societies Au-delà des frontières sociales : le vécu des familles mixtes musulmanes-non-musulmanes	10
Hybrid transnational social protection: The role of religious institutions and networks	10
Spirituality in debates: Politics, genealogy, and new movements. Introduction	9
Is the spiritual not religious? Some caveats concerning religious diversity	9
‘Rain has to do with God’s will’: Religion and perceptions of environmental change in a Muslim community in the Souss-Massa region of Morocco	7
The effect of social capital on organizational repertoires of American Protestant missions	6
Understanding conversion to Jehovism among Indigenous peoples: The case of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg	6
Freedom of Religion in post-secular Australia	5
Les attitudes des Spirituels mais non religieux envers les relations homosexuelles et les rôles de genre	4
Free and responsible: Sexuality, pastoral, and the art of governance in Catholic Conjugal Centres (1953–1990)	3
Smartphones and the education of religious youth in Indonesia: Highway to hell or path of righteousness?	3
What is religious freedom and who has it?	3
Prisonized religiosity and the prison subculture: A hermeneutic expansion from a constructivist perspective	3
Constructing and deconstructing the sacred geography of Hebron: Movement and pilgrimage in and around the Tomb of the Patriarchs	3
Imagining ecopolis: Visions of ecofeminist political theology and ecocriticism in Latin America	3
‘My father is Muslim and my mother is Christian: What about me?’ Religious identity and agency within mixed families in Morocco	2
Religion, the i-zation of society and COVID-19	2
Spiritualizing psychiatry: Transpersonal psychology, DSM, and Brazilian research about spirituality	2
Adapting my religion: How young believers negotiate religious belonging	2

Possession and exorcism on the margins of Islam: Mali	2
Negotiating Germany’s first Muslim–Christian kindergarten: Temporalities, multiplicities, and processes in interreligious dialogue	2
Existential upheavals: Tracing war’s immediate effect on individual religiosity in Ukraine	2
Uncertain faith: A multi-method approach	2
The political integration of the Tunisian Ennahdha party in the light of the notions of civil state and civil party	2
La « sécularisation » des discours et des pratiques en contexte islamique : le cas du Parti pour la justice et le développement au Maroc	2
Popular humanism as new religious movement: The case of Taiwan	2
Athéisme et sécularisme au Kenya : les tribulations des Atheists In Kenya (AIK)	2
Inter-rituality as modern ritualization in a religiously pluralistic context: Ancestral rite in Taiwan as a test case	2
Perspectives nouvelles autour de la mondialisation du champ religieux brésilien - New perspectives on the globalization of the Brazilian religious field	2
Ritual-based religious dissemination in Taiwan: The connection between the religious and non-religious	2
Daughters of Maghrebian Muslim and native non-Muslim couples in Spain: Identity choices and constraints	2
In plain view: Gender in the work of women healthcare chaplains	2
The Orisha religion in a transnational perspective	1
From the family pluriverse to the small worlds of community life in Costa Rica: Towards a policy for the management of belief?	1
Embodied spiritualities: Beliefs, practices, and contributions of women’s spiritualities in Latin America	1
Plant-women, senses, and ecological considerations: Rethinking ritual plants and their taboos among the Pangcah of Taiwan (1920–2020)	1
Innovation religieuse et changement social. Dynamiques du phénomène évangélique en Amérique latine	1
Le rapport des jeunes français à la laïcité dans un monde globalisé	1
Indigenous spirituality surrounding Serianthes trees in Micronesia: Traditional practice, conservation, and resistance	1
Worldview complexity: The challenge of intersecting diversities for conceptualising diversity	1
Paths to the Buddhist priesthood: A qualitative study of Kōyasan priests	1
LGBTQ+ Christians in Australia	1
The betweenness of the double stranger: British converts to Islam and patterns of belonging	1
Concrete holiness and place attachment: Christian Zionist agricultural volunteers in Samaria	1
North America’s Amish-Mennonites adopt abroad: The ideologies and institutional conditions that cracked the homogeneity of an ethnic religion	1
Politicization of holistic spirituality, mistrust of science and public space in Argentina post COVID-19	1
‘Spiritual’ witchcraft and magic 2.0 as weapons of resistance: The emergence of a new movement?	1
Haitian parishioners in a Chilean parish: The role of Haitian Catholicism and ethnic cultural features	1
The silent inquisition: Islamophobic microaggressions and Spanish Moroccan identity negotiations in contemporary Madrid	1
‘My dream is that I share the bed with only one man’: Perceptions and practices of premarital sex among Catholic women in Belgium	1
Keeping life going: Plants and people today, yesterday and tomorrow	1
Thinking critically, acting flexibly: Global forms of religiosity among millennial Muslim women in the UAE	1
Impact of multi-dimensional religiosity on party support in Poland	1
From dialogue to activism: How to get Generation Z and Millennials to participate in the multifaith movement in Australia	1
God hasn’t died, it has merely been encapsulated – Psilocybin and ayahuasca in the psychedelic renaissance: Intersections between religion, indigenous cosmologies, spirituality, and science	1
Christianity and reverential naturalism engage a world in peril: A dialogue between disciplines	1
Law and political Islam’s transformations: Egyptian Islamists and the notions of a civil state and a religious party	1
Creator, saviour, garburator: (Re)imagining the human role in the world through a case of food waste	1
Multiple Buddhism in a Catholic country: Measuring religious belonging and practice across traditions in Italy	1
Family transmission and identity construction: The perspective of ‘mixed’ individuals with a Muslim parent in Quebec	1
La vérité sur soi-même : les pédagogies de conversion et les nouveaux mouvements religieux catholiques en Amérique latine	1
Young people and religious actors in a globalized world. Introduction	1
Material religion, colonial heritage, and building modernity in Brazil	1
What can women in classical sociology teach us about contemporary sociology of religion?	1
Exorcisms, extraction of unwanted entities, and other spiritual struggles around the body: A comparative perspective Exorcismes, extractions d’entités indésirées et autres combats spirituels autour du	0
‘I just don’t belong’: White Christian privilege and older immigrants’ experiences with religion	0
What is the value of a Tibetan prayer wheel?	0
Securitization and the intersectionality of bias: Voices of Māori and non-Māori women converts to Islam in post-Christchurch attack Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Religious-secular as non-competitive: Encouraging participative church in a Czech Catholic diocese	0

Space and secularism: Laïcité, spatial governmentality, and exclusion in French hijab stories	0
Religious expressions and forms of belief in Latin America in the 21st century	0
Rhizomatic religious belonging in times of the fourth industrial revolution	0
Work–faith integration in the neoliberal age: Women professionals’ alignment of evangelical identity with professional identity in South Korea	0
Toward equality: Including non-human animals in studies of lived religion and nonreligion	0
Pentecostal exorcism and Afro-Cuban endorcism: ‘Radical participation’ and the proliferation of symmetries	0
Mobilization of mission trips: The case of northbound Catholics in Hong Kong	0
Black and white or shades of grey: Religious approaches and Muslim marital conflict	0
When sharing religion is not enough: A transregional perspective on marriage, piety, and the intersecting scales of identity transmission among female converts to Islam in mixed unions	0
À la croisée des chemins d’Exú : La spectacularisation de la Kimbanda en Argentine	0
Music for healing: Black Gnawas and the ‘professional’ practice of dealing with spirits in southeastern Morocco	0
Introduction: Religious freedom: between governance and social perception Introduction: Liberté religieuse : entre gouvernance et perception sociale	0
Thanks to the reviewers and guest editors Merci aux évaluateurs et éditeurs invites 2021 – 2022	0
Praying interaction rituals: Prayer, ritual, and spiritual capital in a contemporary neo-Guru movement	0
Riotous methodological and methodointuitive reflections on (non)religion, spirituality and the multispecies turn	0
Catholicism, religious diversity, and syncretism in the Latin American religious field and the immigrant religion contribution	0
Spiritual complexity in Australia: Wellbeing and risks	0
Aiming for the good life: A study of two BAPS-led youth programmes in India	0
Faith-based social service delivery in a country with low religious affiliation: The case of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church	0
Practicing belonging, vicarious spirituality, and gendered fetishism: The transformation of the non-religious/religious in contemporary Japanese youth culture	0
Les jeunes, cœurs de cible et promoteurs d’une orthodoxie juive globalisée	0
‘They lived happily ever after’? Practices of sustaining the durability of Roman Catholic marriage in the context of transformations in intimacy in late modernity	0
Russian Orthodox framing of abortion in online journalism on religion	0
The dynamic diversity of Taiwan’s Indigenous religions: Animism, analogism, and totemism	0
Être gay ou lesbienne et musulman-e dans la Tunisie post-2011 : les négociations d’une antinomie	0
In/dividuality and charisma among Pentecostal Gypsies	0
2030, Apocalypse today and the role of the sociology of religions	0
Islamic practices in Belo Horizonte: Adaptations and choices in a bastion of Brazilian traditionalism	0
Exorcisme catholique en France contemporaine, entre thérapeutique et régulation institutionnelle	0
A Latin American view of lived religion proposal	0
The dejudicialization of religious freedom?	0
Remerciements aux évaluateurs, 2020: Thanks to reviewers, 2020	0
The construction of the sacred through photographs displayed in Latin American homes	0
Transnationalisme pentecôtiste et précarité enchantée : le cas du Monte de Oración dans la périphérie suburbaine de Lima, Pérou	0
Social and religious dimensions of mixed-faith families: The case of a Muslim–Christian family	0
Christian Zionist religiouscapes in Brazil: Understanding Judaizing practices and Zionist inclinations in Brazilian Charismatic Evangelicalism	0
L’expérience de l’hybride. Cultures céréalières et croisements spirituels	0
Religious representation and performative citizenship: The civic dimensions of Shia lamentation rituals in Barcelona	0
L’igname et le fruit du nôôle. Plantes, animaux, personnes et collectifs dans le système socio-cosmique d’Arama (Kanaky Nouvelle-Calédonie)	0
Exorcism: A device of differentiation in Burmese Buddhism	0
Social perception of religious freedom: Testing the impact of secularism and state-religion relations	0
Less gives less, more gives more: Socialisation and religiosity in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area	0
Becoming secular: Biographies of disenchantment, generational dynamics, and why they matter	0
Between needs, goods and services: Ukrainian immigrants on the Polish religious market	0
Conditions for the viability of new evangelical parties: The Colombian Case, 1990–2018	0
‘Signs of the times’: Prophecy belief in contemporary Greek Orthodox contexts	0
Reforming the Israeli–Arab conflict? Interreligious hospitality in Jaffa and its discontents	0
‘Because I didn’t get what I wanted from God’: A multi-level perspective on the role of religious beliefs in (de)conversion processes in Flanders	0
Identity formation among mixed families in a conflictual society: The case of Jewish–Muslim families in Israel	0
(Non)religion, spirituality, and the multispecies turn	0
Les partis islamistes algériens face à la laïcité et à l’État civil (1989–2022). Discours et contre discours	0
Negotiating moral regimes: Polish Catholics’ changing attitudes towards Catholic sexual ethics	0
‘A top secret relationship’: Muslim–Christian courtships in Ceuta’s convivencia	0
Transnational mediumship and the development of a transhistorical self in the Vale do Amanhecer	0
Prayer as an actant: Freedom and sociality in the subject formation of a Catholic nun in Kerala, South India	0
Exorcising angry deities and spirits of the dead: Spiritual and earthly battles of married women in Uttarakhand (India)	0
We have always been transreligious: An introduction to transreligiosity	0
The artification of whirling derviches in France between the religious and the artistic	0
The New Age and the awakening of a decolonial consciousness from Mexico	0
A canopy of umbrellas: Building religious belonging through practices in online settings	0
Reconciling state promises and practices: Constitutional promises and discrimination against religious minorities	0
New Age in Australia: Social transmission and the quest for meaning	0
‘Plant piety’ in question La « piété végétale » en question	0
Revisiting the political integration of Islamist parties in North Africa in light of the notions of ‘civil state’ and ‘Islamic secularism’. Introduction	0
Exploring the use of the mass media by youths in Pentecostal churches in Nigeria	0
Weaving webs of well-being: The ethics of navigating religious differences in Christian foster families with foster children of various backgrounds	0
The judicialization of religious freedom: Variations on a theme	0
Seeing the tundra for the plants, on the eco-spiritual wholeness of arctic vegetation	0