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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America, by DANA W. LOGAN24
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 PAYNE13
White Habitus Among Polish White Female Converts to Islam11
The LGBT Politics of Religious Nones10
Symbolic Pollution and Religious Change: The Religious Imaginary of Anglo-Canadian Spiritual but Not Religious Millennials9
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“Bring Your Straight Friends”: Anti-Gay Religious Stigma and Black and White LGB-Affirming Church Members8
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The Business of Christian Nationalism: Examining Retailers’ Self-Descriptions on a Conservative Christian Alternative to Amazon.com7
Marxism, Religion, and Emancipatory Politics, edited by GRAEME KIRKPATRICK, PETER MCMYLOR and SIMIN FADAEE7
Divine Purpose? Religion, Race, and Attitudes Toward Life Extension Technology7
Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy, by ROBERT WUTHNOW7
How Chinese American Christians Use Religion to Frame Racial Injustice: From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate6
Lost in “Translation-Work”: Negotiations of Lost and Saved Language Among Ex-Charismatic Christians in Norway6
Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq, by DAVID SIDDHARTHA PATEL6
“There’s theology and then there’s the people I love. . .”: Authority and Ambivalence in Seminarians’ Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Relationships, Marriage, and Ordination6
Correction to: Sources of Inconsistency in the Measurement of Religious Affiliation: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Cognitive Interviews6
Making Moral Citizens: How Faith-Based Organizers Use Vocation for Public Actio, by JACK DELEHANTY5
Claiming Belonging: Muslim American Advocacy in an Era of Islamophobia, by EMILY CURY5
Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction, by BETH SINGLER5
Irish Mormonism: Reconciling Identity in Global Mormonism, by HAZEL O’BRIEN5
Income Inequality, World Polity, and Political Secularization: A Comparative Historical Analysis (1870–2014)5
Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice, by RACHEL B. GROSS5
Power and Agency in the Lives of Contemporary Tibetan Nuns: An Intersectional Study, by MITRA HäRKöNEN5
Unweaving the Tapestry: The Emplotment of “Exvangelical” Narratives of Religious Change5
Education and Religion in Shaping Support for Same-Sex Relations: Considering Differences Over Time and Across Geographical Areas4
Religions of the World: Questions, Challenges and New Directions, by LESLIE DORROUGH SMITH and STEVEN W. RAMEY4
Race and Religion in Everyday Life: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Christian Privilege Among Female Converts in the Netherlands4
Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism by JONATHAN TRAN4
Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements, edited by WARREN S. GOLDSTEIN and JEAN-PIERRE REED4
“The Tables Are Turning”: The Evangelical Defense of Anti-LGBTQ+ Religious Liberty4
The Religious Imaginary and the Repressive State: Science-based Beliefs of Ukrainian and Lithuanian Scientists Born in the USSR4
Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe: Pursing Religious Commitment in the Netherlands, by DAAN BEEKERS3
Catholicism at a Crossroads: The Present and Future of America’s Largest Church , by Maureen K. Day, James C. Cavendish, Paul M. Perl, Michele Dillon, and Mary L. Gautier, w3
Did Gender Egalitarianism Weaken Religiosity in Baby Boom Women? A Developmental-Historical Approach3
Sacred as Secular: Secularization under Theocracy in Iran, by ABDOLMOHAMMAD KAZEMIPUR3
Religious Nationalism in the 21st Century3
The Moral Foundations of Christian Nationalism3
The Shape of Spirituality: The Public Significance of a New Religious Formation, edited by DICK HOUTMAN and GALEN WATTS3
Secularization and Gender: A Global Study of the Effects of Women’s Employment on Religious Decline2
The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in U.S. Islam, by TAZEEN M. ALI2
Religion-Related Legitimations in Abortion Policy-Making in Poland. What Do They Tell Us About the Public Role of Religion?2
Smart Suits, Tattered Boots: Black Ministers Mobilizing the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century, by KORIE LITTLE EDWARDS2
Correction to: “You Can’t Just Give People Food”: Whiteness in Practice at an Evangelical Food Pantry2
After Restructuring: Understanding Religion, Nonreligion, and Spirituality in the Twenty-First Century2
Religious Polarization in Europe2
Work Pray Code, by CAROLYN CHEN2
The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity, by GALEN WATTS2
Challenging Identity Conflict: How Queer, Trans, and Nonbinary Muslim Organizations Incite Activism2
Religion in the Market Era: The Rise of Market Islam, The Revenge of Confucius, and Other Stories from a Global Age , by François Gauthier2
Collective Intentionality and the Study of Religion. Social Ontology and Empirical Research, by ANDREA ROTA2
The Churches They Are a Changin’: Processes of Change in Worship Services2
Public/Private Religion in Context: When Psychologists Use Religion to Invigorate Therapy1
Social Crisis and Islamist Transformation: Iraq’s Sadrism Through Bourdieu’s Homology1
The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious, by JOSEPH BLANKHOLM1
Religion and Subjective Social Class in the United States1
Correction to: Paradoxes of Pluralism, Privilege, and Persecution: Explaining Christian Growth and Decline Worldwide1
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Modest Dress at Work as Lived Religion: Women’s Dress in Religious Work Contexts in Saudi Arabia and the UK1
Queering the Sociology of Religion1
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Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America, by RANDALL BALMER1
The Protestants’ Dilemma: When Cultural Mismatches Shape Deliberate Action1
Ambivalent Accommodation: The Politics of Religious Leaders and the Hybrid Regime in Uganda1
What Drives Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men to Go to Work in Israel?1
Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices, by NANCY TATOM AMMERMAN1
Democracy Needs Religion, by HARTMUT ROSA1
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
Switch to Web-Based Surveys During COVID-19 Pandemic Left Out the Most Religious, Creating a False Impression of Rapid Religious Decline0
Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity, by GÜLAY TÜRKMEN0
Peter L. Berger on Religion: The Social Reality of Religion, by TITUS HJELM0
Muslims, Minorities, and the Media: Discourses on Islam in the West, by LAURENS DE ROOIJ0
“There Wasn’t A Playbook For This”: Local Congregations and the Crises of 20200
Thinking Outside the West: Religious Change from the Nation-State to the Global-Market Regime0
Sources of Inconsistency in the Measurement of Religious Affiliation: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Cognitive Interviews0
Racial Justice and Racialized Religion: Are Progressive White Christians Getting It Right?0
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Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age, by ROBERT ROZEHNAL0
Rethinking Religion and Political Participation: The Case of Voting Among Religiously Unaffiliated Americans0
The Enchantment of Science: Aesthetics and Spirituality in Scientific Work0
Civil Religion Today: Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century, by RHYS H. WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HABERSKI, JR., and PHILLIP GOFF0
The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood , by SHENILA KHOJA-MOOLJI0
Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States, by EZIAKU ATUAMA NWOKOCHA0
Still Soul Searching? Remapping Adolescent Religious Commitment0
Religion, Race, and COVID-19: Confronting White Supremacy in the Pandemic, by STACEY M. FLOYD THOMAS0
How Workplace Support of Religion and Spirituality Buffered Burnout During the COVID-19 Pandemic0
The Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West, by TOBIAS CREMER0
Liberty for Us, Limits for Them: Christian Nationalism and Americans’ Views on Citizens’ Rights0
Religion in Plain View: Public Aesthetics of American Display, by SALLY M. PROMEY.0
College-Educated Religious Conservatives’ Support for Capital Punishment0
American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the 21st Century, by SHANNON LEE DAWDY0
On the Significance of Religion in Climate Change , by Lan T. Chu, Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia, and Youssef Chouhoud0
The Beliefs of Nonbelievers: Exclusive Empiricism and Mortal Finitude Among Atheists and Agnostics0
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The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church, by KATIE GADDINI0
Challenging Modernity, by ROBERT N. BELLAH, edited by RICHARD MADSEN, WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN, ANN SWIDLER, and STEVEN M. TIPTON0
Gender, Symbolic and Social Boundaries, and Deconversion from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints0
Jesus and John Wayne Wannabes: How Christian Nationalism and Femininity Shape Extreme Politics Among Men in the US0
To Live Peaceably Together: The American Friends Service Committee’s Campaign for Open Housing, by TRACY E. K’MEYER0
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
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
In This Place Called Prison. Women’s Religious Life in the Shadow of Punishment, by RACHEL ELLIS0
Stained Glass Ceilings: How Evangelicals Do Gender and Practice Power, by LISA WEAVER SWARTZ0
Expanding the Path: U.S. Jewish Chaplains as Interfaith Pioneers, Yesterday and Today0
Living in Refuge: Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon, by LEONARDO SCHIOCCHET0
Sensitizing Blinders: Theorizing Theory in a Post-Colonial Era0
The Spiritual Turn and “Feminization”: Turning a Gender Lens on Spirituality0
Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland, by KRISTY NABHAN-WARREN0
Becoming Humanist: Worldview Formation and the Emergence of Atheist Britain0
The Faces of God’s Country: Christian Nationalism in the United States and the Implicit Association of Asian Faces with Foreignness0
Female Faith Practices. Qualitative Research Perspectives, edited by NICOLA SLEE, DAWN LLEWELLYN, KIM WASEY, LINDSEY TAYLOR-GUTHARTZ0
Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision, by DIANE WINSTON0
Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion. Spiritual Phenomena, by HUGH TURPIN0
The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches, by AFE ADOGAME, CHAD M. BAUMAN, DAMARIS PARSITAU, and JEANEY YIP0
“Many in Body, One in Mind”: The Journey of Soka Gakkai in America, by AKIRA KAWABATA and KEISHIN INABA0
Navigating (De)Conversion While Maintaining Social Relations Across Different Religions in Flanders (Belgium)0
Religion as a Resource in an Increasingly Polarized Society0
Digital Religion: The Basics, by HEIDI A. CAMPBELL and WENDI BELLAR0
The Gathering Storm in the Evangelical Field: Education, Christian Nationalism, and Racial Inequality0
Minority Churches as Media Settlers: Negotiating Deep Mediatization, by DOROTA HALL, MARTA KOŁODZIEJSKA, and KERSTIN RADDE-ANTWEILER0
Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England , by Anna Strhan and Rachael Shillitoe0
Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power, edited by BRIAN STEENSLAND0
Feminizing Patriarchy: Christian Churches and Gender Inequality in Rural Africa0
From “Civilian Clergy to Officer”: Hiring and Training Chaplains for Federal Government Positions0
Religious Fundamentalism: A Conceptual and Empirical Study Among Muslims of Turkish Origin in Germany0
Sanctified Sexism: Effects of Purity Culture Tropes on White Christian Women’s Marital and Sexual Satisfaction and Experience of Sexual Pain0
21st-Century Theories of Religion, edited by MICHAEL STAUSBERG0
Faith and Volunteering at Midlife: Variation by Religious Continuity, Discontinuity, or Initiation Since Childhood?0
Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism by RICHARD BRENT TURNER0
“Participating in the Kingdom While We Are Reaching for It”: Prefigurative Faith and the “Living Out” of Religion and Politics0
Singlehood and Religion: The Case of Israeli Religious Zionist Singles, by ARI ENGELBERG0
Correction to: Modest Dress at Work as Lived Religion: Women’s Dress in Religious Work Contexts in Saudi Arabia and the UK0
Religion, Spirituality, and Secularity Among Millennials: The Generation Shaping American and Canadian Trends, by SARAH WILKINS-LAFLAMME0
Paranormal Beliefs, Vaccine Confidence, and COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake0
Social Locations of Secularization and Worldview (Dis)Enchantment: Education, Income, and Belief in Religious and Paranormal Phenomena0
What Makes Life Meaningful? Combinations of Meaningful Commitments Among Nonreligious and Religious Americans0
Treating Religion as a Personal Choice: Opportunities and Dilemmas Involved in the Religious Identity Constructions of Turkish Muslim Immigrants0
Women and the Catholic Church: Negotiating Identity and Agency , by Tracy McEwan0
“Electronic Church” 2.0: Are Virtual and In-Person Attendance Associated with Mental and Physical Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic?0
Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life, by CHRISTOPH BAUMGARTNER0
Powerful Devices: Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare, by ABIMBOLA A. ADELAKUN0
Climate Politics and the Power of Religion, edited by EVAN BERRY0
Taking Francis’ Pastoral Approach: Catholic Priests’ Approval of Pope Francis and Attitudes on Lay Same-Sex Behavior and Homosexual Clergy0
The Funk of White Souls: Toward a Du Boisian Theory of the White Church0
In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States, by JOHANNA BARD RICHLIN0
Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society, by ISABELLA KASSELSTRAND, PHIL ZUCKERMAN, and RYAN T. CRAGUN0
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God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success, by ILANA M. HORWITZ0
Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion to the Next Generation, by CHRISTIAN SMITH and AMY ADAMCZYK0
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Becoming a (Better) Muslim: A Connectivist Perspective on Learning Islam in Finland0
Religion Lived In-Between: Time, Space, and Religious Practices of Roman Catholic Women in Poland0
The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety Among White Evangelicals, by SARAH DIEFENDORF0
What Makes Saint Martin Come Marching In? On Facilitating Holy Play0
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“My Whole Life Was the Two Suburbs That Surrounded the Church”: LGBTQ+ Participation in Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches as “Greedy Institutions”0
Rising Security and Religious Decline: Refining and Extending Insecurity Theory0
Racialized Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from the General Social Survey0
Correction to: Becoming Humanist: Worldview Formation and the Emergence of Atheist Britain0
Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion: Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945–2021, by ABBY DAY0
Death and Religion in a Changing World, 2nd ed., edited by KATHLEEN GARCES-FOLEY0
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Race, Religion, and Geopolitics: Dating and Romance Among South Asian Muslim Immigrants in Canada0
“You Can’t Just Give People Food”: Whiteness in Practice at an Evangelical Food Pantry0
Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization, by RYAN T. CRAGUN and JESSE M. SMITH0
Christian Nationalism and Opposition to Reallocating Police Funding to Other Social Services0
The Flag and The Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, by PHILIP S. GORSKI and SAMUEL L. PERRY0
“You Know, the Church Has Never Agreed on Everything”: Analyzing the Prophetic and Pragmatic Voice in Clergy Sermons0
Eternally Damned, Yet Socially Conscious? The Volunteerism of Canadian Atheists0
Called to Work: Developing a Framework for Understanding Spiritual Orientations Towards Work0
Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and the Myth of the Vigilante Messiah, by RACHEL WAGNER0
Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation, by LIZ BUCAR0
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Religious Identities in Polish Society. A Sociological Study , by JANUSZ MARIAŃSKI0
Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community, by WILLIAM R. JANKOWIAK0
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