Sociology of Religion

Papers
(The median citation count of Sociology of 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America, by DANA W. LOGAN35
Varieties of Atheism in Science, by ELAINE HOWARD ECKLUND and DAVID R. JOHNSON16
Shifts in American Religiosity and Spirituality from 1995 to 2014: How Did Community Life Change?15
God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music, by LEAH PAYNE15
“Bring Your Straight Friends”: Anti-Gay Religious Stigma and Black and White LGB-Affirming Church Members12
White Habitus Among Polish White Female Converts to Islam11
Symbolic Pollution and Religious Change: The Religious Imaginary of Anglo-CanadianSpiritual but Not ReligiousMillennials9
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The LGBT Politics of Religious Nones8
Marxism, Religion, and Emancipatory Politics, edited by GRAEME KIRKPATRICK, PETER MCMYLOR and SIMIN FADAEE7
Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy, by ROBERT WUTHNOW7
Divine Purpose? Religion, Race, and Attitudes Toward Life Extension Technology6
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The Business of Christian Nationalism: Examining Retailers’ Self-Descriptions on a Conservative Christian Alternative to Amazon.com6
“There’s theology and then there’s the people I love. . .”: Authority and Ambivalence in Seminarians’ Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Relationships, Marriage, and Ordination5
Lost in “Translation-Work”: Negotiations of Lost and Saved Language Among Ex-Charismatic Christians in Norway5
How Chinese American Christians Use Religion to Frame Racial Injustice: From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate5
Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq, by DAVID SIDDHARTHA PATEL5
Correction to: Sources of Inconsistency in the Measurement of Religious Affiliation: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Cognitive Interviews5
Income Inequality, World Polity, and Political Secularization: A Comparative Historical Analysis (1870–2014)4
Claiming Belonging: Muslim American Advocacy in an Era of Islamophobia, by EMILY CURY4
Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction, by BETH SINGLER4
Irish Mormonism: Reconciling Identity in Global Mormonism, by HAZEL O’BRIEN4
Unweaving the Tapestry: The Emplotment of “Exvangelical” Narratives of Religious Change4
Power and Agency in the Lives of Contemporary Tibetan Nuns: An Intersectional Study, by MITRA HäRKöNEN4
Education and Religion in Shaping Support for Same-Sex Relations: Considering Differences Over Time and Across Geographical Areas3
Did Gender Egalitarianism Weaken Religiosity in Baby Boom Women? A Developmental-Historical Approach3
Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism by JONATHAN TRAN3
“The Tables Are Turning”: The Evangelical Defense of Anti-LGBTQ+ Religious Liberty3
Race and Religion in Everyday Life: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Christian Privilege Among Female Converts in the Netherlands3
Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements, edited by WARREN S. GOLDSTEIN and JEAN-PIERRE REED3
Making Moral Citizens: How Faith-Based Organizers Use Vocation for Public Actio, by JACK DELEHANTY3
Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice, by RACHEL B. GROSS3
The Religious Imaginary and the Repressive State: Science-based Beliefs of Ukrainian and Lithuanian Scientists Born in the USSR3
The Moral Foundations of Christian Nationalism2
The Other Black Church: Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom, by JOSEPH L. TUCKER EDMONDS2
The Churches They Are a Changin’: Processes of Change in Worship Services2
Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe: Pursing Religious Commitment in the Netherlands, by DAAN BEEKERS2
Between Online Autonomy and Local Constraints: Spaces of Roman Catholic Women’s Activity in Poland2
Sacred as Secular: Secularization under Theocracy in Iran, by ABDOLMOHAMMAD KAZEMIPUR2
Challenging Identity Conflict: How Queer, Trans, and Nonbinary Muslim Organizations Incite Activism2
Religions of the World: Questions, Challenges and New Directions, by LESLIE DORROUGH SMITH and STEVEN W. RAMEY2
The Shape of Spirituality: The Public Significance of a New Religious Formation, edited by DICK HOUTMAN and GALEN WATTS2
Work Pray Code, by CAROLYN CHEN2
A Theory of Political Backlash: Assessing the Religious Right’s Effects on the Religious Field2
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Social Crisis and Islamist Transformation: Iraq’s Sadrism Through Bourdieu’s Homology1
What Drives Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men to Go to Work in Israel?1
Smart Suits, Tattered Boots: Black Ministers Mobilizing the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century, by KORIE LITTLE EDWARDS1
The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity, by GALEN WATTS1
Religious Polarization in Europe1
Religion-Related Legitimations in Abortion Policy-Making in Poland. What Do They Tell Us About the Public Role of Religion?1
Public/Private Religion in Context: When Psychologists Use Religion to Invigorate Therapy1
Ambivalent Accommodation: The Politics of Religious Leaders and the Hybrid Regime in Uganda1
After Restructuring: Understanding Religion, Nonreligion, and Spirituality in the Twenty-First Century1
Reconnecting Religion and Community in a Small City: How Urban Amenities Afford Religious Amenities1
Secularization and Gender: A Global Study of the Effects of Women’s Employment on Religious Decline1
Getting Permission to Break the Rules: Clergy Respond to LGBTQ Exclusion in the United Methodist Church1
The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious, by JOSEPH BLANKHOLM1
The Protestants’ Dilemma: When Cultural Mismatches Shape Deliberate Action1
Modest Dress at Work as Lived Religion: Women’s Dress in Religious Work Contexts in Saudi Arabia and the UK1
Collective Intentionality and the Study of Religion. Social Ontology and Empirical Research, by ANDREA ROTA1
Correction to: “You Can’t Just Give People Food”: Whiteness in Practice at an Evangelical Food Pantry1
The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in U.S. Islam, by TAZEEN M. ALI1
Minority Churches as Media Settlers: Negotiating Deep Mediatization, by DOROTA HALL, MARTA KOŁODZIEJSKA, and KERSTIN RADDE-ANTWEILER0
Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation, by LIZ BUCAR0
Correction to: Becoming Humanist: Worldview Formation and the Emergence of Atheist Britain0
Christian Nationalism and Opposition to Reallocating Police Funding to Other Social Services0
Liberty for Us, Limits for Them: Christian Nationalism and Americans’ Views on Citizens’ Rights0
Divine Struggles Among Those Doing God’s Work: A Longitudinal Assessment Predicting Depression and Burnout and the Role of Social Support in United Methodist Clergy0
From “Civilian Clergy to Officer”: Hiring and Training Chaplains for Federal Government Positions0
The Beliefs of Nonbelievers: Exclusive Empiricism and Mortal Finitude Among Atheists and Agnostics0
Challenging Modernity, by ROBERT N. BELLAH, edited by RICHARD MADSEN, WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN, ANN SWIDLER, and STEVEN M. TIPTON0
In This Place Called Prison. Women’s Religious Life in the Shadow of Punishment, by RACHEL ELLIS0
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Protestant Missionaries Are Associated With Reduced Community Cohesion0
21st-Century Theories of Religion, edited by MICHAEL STAUSBERG0
Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion to the Next Generation, by CHRISTIAN SMITH and AMY ADAMCZYK0
Negotiating Belonging: Race, Class, and Religion in the Brazilian Quest for “Becoming American”0
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The False Dichotomy of Sex and Religion in America0
Paranormal Beliefs, Vaccine Confidence, and COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake0
Correction to: Paradoxes of Pluralism, Privilege, and Persecution: Explaining Christian Growth and Decline Worldwide0
Latinx Protestants and American Politics0
Review Symposium0
In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States, by JOHANNA BARD RICHLIN0
Neoliberal Religion: Faith and Power in the Twenty-First Century, by MATTHEW GUEST0
The Social Construction of Christian Persecution Through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy0
The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety Among White Evangelicals, by SARAH DIEFENDORF0
Living in Refuge: Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon, by LEONARDO SCHIOCCHET0
Stained Glass Ceilings: How Evangelicals Do Gender and Practice Power, by LISA WEAVER SWARTZ0
Civil Religion Today: Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century, by RHYS H. WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HABERSKI, JR., and PHILLIP GOFF0
Sanctified Sexism: Effects of Purity Culture Tropes on White Christian Women’s Marital and Sexual Satisfaction and Experience of Sexual Pain0
American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the 21st Century, by SHANNON LEE DAWDY0
Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity, by GÜLAY TÜRKMEN0
Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland, by KRISTY NABHAN-WARREN0
Navigating (De)Conversion While Maintaining Social Relations Across Different Religions in Flanders (Belgium)0
Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion. Spiritual Phenomena, by HUGH TURPIN0
God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success, by ILANA M. HORWITZ0
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The Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West, by TOBIAS CREMER0
Religion as a Resource in an Increasingly Polarized Society0
The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood, by SHENILA KHOJA-MOOLJI0
College-Educated Religious Conservatives’ Support for Capital Punishment0
Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality, by TODNE THOMAS0
“You Know, the Church Has Never Agreed on Everything”: Analyzing the Prophetic and Pragmatic Voice in Clergy Sermons0
Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics, by R. KHARI BROWN0
Feminizing Patriarchy: Christian Churches and Gender Inequality in Rural Africa0
Religion, Spirituality, and Secularity Among Millennials: The Generation Shaping American and Canadian Trends, by SARAH WILKINS-LAFLAMME0
Religion in Plain View: Public Aesthetics of American Display, by SALLY M. PROMEY.0
Religious Fundamentalism: A Conceptual and Empirical Study Among Muslims of Turkish Origin in Germany0
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Switch to Web-Based Surveys During COVID-19 Pandemic Left Out the Most Religious, Creating a False Impression of Rapid Religious Decline0
Jesus and John Wayne Wannabes: How Christian Nationalism and Femininity Shape Extreme Politics Among Men in the US0
Rising Security and Religious Decline: Refining and Extending Insecurity Theory0
The Flag and The Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, by PHILIP S. GORSKI and SAMUEL L. PERRY0
Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and the Myth of the Vigilante Messiah, by RACHEL WAGNER0
Religious Identities in Polish Society. A Sociological Study, by JANUSZ MARIAŃSKI0
Death and Religion in a Changing World, 2nd ed., edited by KATHLEEN GARCES-FOLEY0
Called to Work: Developing a Framework for Understanding Spiritual Orientations Towards Work0
The Spiritual Turn and “Feminization”: Turning a Gender Lens on Spirituality0
To Live Peaceably Together: The American Friends Service Committee’s Campaign for Open Housing, by TRACY E. K’MEYER0
Democracy Needs Religion, by HARTMUT ROSA0
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Sources of Inconsistency in the Measurement of Religious Affiliation: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Cognitive Interviews0
Religion and Subjective Social Class in the United States0
What Makes Life Meaningful? Combinations of Meaningful Commitments Among Nonreligious and Religious Americans0
How Workplace Support of Religion and Spirituality Buffered Burnout During the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Armed Conflict and Religious Adherence Across Countries: A Time Series Analysis0
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“Electronic Church” 2.0: Are Virtual and In-Person Attendance Associated with Mental and Physical Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic?0
Taking Francis’ Pastoral Approach: Catholic Priests’ Approval of Pope Francis and Attitudes on Lay Same-Sex Behavior and Homosexual Clergy0
Thinking Outside the West: Religious Change from the Nation-State to the Global-Market Regime0
Social Locations of Secularization and Worldview (Dis)Enchantment: Education, Income, and Belief in Religious and Paranormal Phenomena0
Climate Politics and the Power of Religion, edited by EVAN BERRY0
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“There Wasn’t A Playbook For This”: Local Congregations and the Crises of 20200
Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community, by WILLIAM R. JANKOWIAK0
Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society, by ISABELLA KASSELSTRAND, PHIL ZUCKERMAN, and RYAN T. CRAGUN0
What Makes Saint Martin Come Marching In? On Facilitating Holy Play0
Preacher Woman: A Critical Look at Sexism Without Sexists, by KATIE LAUVE-MOON0
Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age, by ROBERT ROZEHNAL0
Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision, by DIANE WINSTON0
Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power, edited by BRIAN STEENSLAND0
Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism by RICHARD BRENT TURNER0
Religion Lived In-Between: Time, Space, and Religious Practices of Roman Catholic Women in Poland0
Religion, Race, and COVID-19: Confronting White Supremacy in the Pandemic, by STACEY M. FLOYD THOMAS0
Gender, Symbolic and Social Boundaries, and Deconversion from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints0
Why Do People Discriminate Against Jews?, by JONATHAN FOX & LEV TOPOR0
Race, Religion, and Geopolitics: Dating and Romance Among South Asian Muslim Immigrants in Canada0
Racialized Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from the General Social Survey0
Treating Religion as a Personal Choice: Opportunities and Dilemmas Involved in the Religious Identity Constructions of Turkish Muslim Immigrants0
“My Whole Life Was the Two Suburbs That Surrounded the Church”: LGBTQ+ Participation in Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches as “Greedy Institutions”0
Faith and Volunteering at Midlife: Variation by Religious Continuity, Discontinuity, or Initiation Since Childhood?0
Singlehood and Religion: The Case of Israeli Religious Zionist Singles, by ARI ENGELBERG0
Expanding the Path: U.S. Jewish Chaplains as Interfaith Pioneers, Yesterday and Today0
The Faces of God’s Country: Christian Nationalism in the United States and the Implicit Association of Asian Faces with Foreignness0
The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church, by KATIE GADDINI0
The Funk of White Souls: Toward a Du Boisian Theory of the White Church0
Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life, by CHRISTOPH BAUMGARTNER0
Peter L. Berger on Religion: The Social Reality of Religion, by TITUS HJELM0
Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America, by RANDALL BALMER0
Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization, by RYAN T. CRAGUN and JESSE M. SMITH0
Female Faith Practices. Qualitative Research Perspectives, edited by NICOLA SLEE, DAWN LLEWELLYN, KIM WASEY, LINDSEY TAYLOR-GUTHARTZ0
Correction to: Modest Dress at Work as Lived Religion: Women’s Dress in Religious Work Contexts in Saudi Arabia and the UK0
“Some Vital Religion”: Social Religion and the Science of Character Education in the United States, 1918–19320
“You Can’t Just Give People Food”: Whiteness in Practice at an Evangelical Food Pantry0
Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States, by EZIAKU ATUAMA NWOKOCHA0
Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices, by NANCY TATOM AMMERMAN0
Theodicy and Crisis: Explaining Variation in U.S. Believers’ Faith Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic0
“Many in Body, One in Mind”: The Journey of Soka Gakkai in America, by AKIRA KAWABATA and KEISHIN INABA0
Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley, by Carolyn Chen0
Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness and Affective Politics in Pakistan by SHENILA KHOJA-MOOLJIFeeding Iran: Shi’i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic by ROSE WELLMAN0
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Becoming Humanist: Worldview Formation and the Emergence of Atheist Britain0
Powerful Devices: Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare, by ABIMBOLA A. ADELAKUN0
Muslims, Minorities, and the Media: Discourses on Islam in the West, by LAURENS DE ROOIJ0
Rethinking Religion and Political Participation: The Case of Voting Among Religiously Unaffiliated Americans0
The Enchantment of Science: Aesthetics and Spirituality in Scientific Work0
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Sensitizing Blinders: Theorizing Theory in a Post-Colonial Era0
Racial Justice and Racialized Religion: Are Progressive White Christians Getting It Right?0
Still Soul Searching? Remapping Adolescent Religious Commitment0
Becoming a (Better) Muslim: A Connectivist Perspective on Learning Islam in Finland0
The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches, by AFE ADOGAME, CHAD M. BAUMAN, DAMARIS PARSITAU, and JEANEY YIP0
Eternally Damned, Yet Socially Conscious? The Volunteerism of Canadian Atheists0
Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion: Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945–2021, by ABBY DAY0
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“Participating in the Kingdom While We Are Reaching for It”: Prefigurative Faith and the “Living Out” of Religion and Politics0
Digital Religion: The Basics, by HEIDI A. CAMPBELL and WENDI BELLAR0
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