OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociology of Religion is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America, by DANA W. LOGAN	24
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 PAYNE	13
White Habitus Among Polish White Female Converts to Islam	11
The LGBT Politics of Religious Nones	10
Symbolic Pollution and Religious Change: The Religious Imaginary of Anglo-Canadian Spiritual but Not Religious Millennials	9
“Bring Your Straight Friends”: Anti-Gay Religious Stigma and Black and White LGB-Affirming Church Members	8
ASR News & Announcements	8
Divine Purpose? Religion, Race, and Attitudes Toward Life Extension Technology	7
Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy, by ROBERT WUTHNOW	7
ASR News & Announcements	7
The Business of Christian Nationalism: Examining Retailers’ Self-Descriptions on a Conservative Christian Alternative to Amazon.com	7
Marxism, Religion, and Emancipatory Politics, edited by GRAEME KIRKPATRICK, PETER MCMYLOR and SIMIN FADAEE	7
“There’s theology and then there’s the people I love. . .”: Authority and Ambivalence in Seminarians’ Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Relationships, Marriage, and Ordination	6
Correction to: Sources of Inconsistency in the Measurement of Religious Affiliation: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Cognitive Interviews	6
How Chinese American Christians Use Religion to Frame Racial Injustice: From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate	6
Lost in “Translation-Work”: Negotiations of Lost and Saved Language Among Ex-Charismatic Christians in Norway	6
Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq, by DAVID SIDDHARTHA PATEL	6
Irish Mormonism: Reconciling Identity in Global Mormonism, by HAZEL O’BRIEN	5
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. GROSS	5
Power and Agency in the Lives of Contemporary Tibetan Nuns: An Intersectional Study, by MITRA HäRKöNEN	5
Unweaving the Tapestry: The Emplotment of “Exvangelical” Narratives of Religious Change	5
Making Moral Citizens: How Faith-Based Organizers Use Vocation for Public Actio, by JACK DELEHANTY	5
Claiming Belonging: Muslim American Advocacy in an Era of Islamophobia, by EMILY CURY	5

Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction, by BETH SINGLER	5
Race and Religion in Everyday Life: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Christian Privilege Among Female Converts in the Netherlands	4
Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism by JONATHAN TRAN	4
Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements, edited by WARREN S. GOLDSTEIN and JEAN-PIERRE REED	4
“The Tables Are Turning”: The Evangelical Defense of Anti-LGBTQ+ Religious Liberty	4
The Religious Imaginary and the Repressive State: Science-based Beliefs of Ukrainian and Lithuanian Scientists Born in the USSR	4
Education and Religion in Shaping Support for Same-Sex Relations: Considering Differences Over Time and Across Geographical Areas	4
Religions of the World: Questions, Challenges and New Directions, by LESLIE DORROUGH SMITH and STEVEN W. RAMEY	4
Sacred as Secular: Secularization under Theocracy in Iran, by ABDOLMOHAMMAD KAZEMIPUR	3
Religious Nationalism in the 21st Century	3
The Moral Foundations of Christian Nationalism	3
The Shape of Spirituality: The Public Significance of a New Religious Formation, edited by DICK HOUTMAN and GALEN WATTS	3
Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe: Pursing Religious Commitment in the Netherlands, by DAAN BEEKERS	3
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, w	3
Did Gender Egalitarianism Weaken Religiosity in Baby Boom Women? A Developmental-Historical Approach	3
Work Pray Code, by CAROLYN CHEN	2
The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity, by GALEN WATTS	2
Challenging Identity Conflict: How Queer, Trans, and Nonbinary Muslim Organizations Incite Activism	2
Religion in the Market Era: The Rise of Market Islam, The Revenge of Confucius, and Other Stories from a Global Age , by François Gauthier	2
Collective Intentionality and the Study of Religion. Social Ontology and Empirical Research, by ANDREA ROTA	2
The Churches They Are a Changin’: Processes of Change in Worship Services	2
Secularization and Gender: A Global Study of the Effects of Women’s Employment on Religious Decline	2
The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in U.S. Islam, by TAZEEN M. ALI	2
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 EDWARDS	2
Correction to: “You Can’t Just Give People Food”: Whiteness in Practice at an Evangelical Food Pantry	2
After Restructuring: Understanding Religion, Nonreligion, and Spirituality in the Twenty-First Century	2
Religious Polarization in Europe	2