OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Politics and 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Egor Lazarev. State-building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya By Cambridge University Press, 2023. xvi+322. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $34.99. Paper. ISBN 9781009245913	23
The varieties of American Christian nationalism	12
Holy day surveys and political attitudes in Israel	12
Does deference to religious authority predict support for political violence?	10
Whatever happened to new atheism? The rise and fall of the U.S. atheist movement	10
(In)stability in American public attitudes toward Jews: a panel analysis	8
God’s country: perceptions of religious and place-based candidate identities	8
Self-censorship in communist China: text analysis of sermons from state-registered churches	8
The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan By Arsalan Khan. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2024. 240 pp. $31.95 paperback.	8
Clergywomen, women’s ordination, and “women’s issues”: women’s representation in American religious congregations	8
Do discriminatory laws have societal origins? The diffusion of anti-Ahmadiyah regulations in Indonesia	8
Islamic doctrine and women's economic rights: implications of an ambiguous relationship for state policy in the Muslim world	6
Globalization and religious resurgence: a comparative analysis	6
Pope Francis as an influential leader? How papal statements affect public attitudes toward anti-poverty measures	6
An organizational perspective on fading system-ness: Insights from Ennahda’s post-specialization period (2016–2021)	5
Which political entities are “Friendly” to religion? The interplay of entity, identity congruence, and Christian nationalism	5
Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State By Anna M. Grzymała-Busse. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2023. 256 pp. $99.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback	4
Christian democracy as political spirituality: transcendence as transformation—Italian politics, 1942–1953	4
Whither the Wall? Measuring Church–State Separation During COVID-19	4
RAP volume 15 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Catholicism, Pluralism and American Democracy	4
Toward electoral (ir)relevance of moral traditionalism? Religious decline and voting in Western Europe (1981–2017)	4
Neither secular nor sectarian: perspectives on social life and politics among Beirut's religiously devout youth	3
A spiritual call: the courses of action taken by individuals influenced by religious soft power	3
RAP volume 15 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3

Division on the Christian right: Republican pastors and the use of force	3
Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq By David Patel. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. 240 pp. $33.95 paperback.	3
Islam to the state legislature: an exploratory analysis of Muslim American candidate supply and demand	2
Comparative Shari‘a : measuring support for Islamism cross-nationally	2
Mapping the concept of fundamentalism: a scoping review	2
From religious to secular perspectives of religion and state—tracing the American Blue laws	2
Religious citizens, secular states: why do states in sub-Saharan Africa provide minimal support to religion?	2
Evangelical attitudes toward Syrian refugees: are evangelicals distinctive in their opposition to Syrian refugees to the United States?	2
Clergy-lay political (mis)alignment in 2019–2020	2
From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa By Gwyneth H. McClendon and Rachel Beatty Riedl. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xii+ 274 pp. $39.99 clot	2
Migration crisis at the Polish–Belarusian border in the Polish Catholic press discourse	2
Islamic religious behaviors and civic engagement in Europe and North America	2
The role of religion in integration through intermarriage: The case of Bhutanese refugees in Michigan	2
Social activism against the desecularization of non-religious state education in Israel: a social movement lens	2
Preparedness Behavior and the apocalypse: religion and politics in the post 2020 election era	2
What do we know about religion and interreligious peace? A review of the quantitative literature	2
Facing Janus: local politics, Muslim leadership, and regulatory outcomes in Belgium	2
Church and state in contemporary China: securing Christianity	1
The secular paradox in the “world’s most progressive” constitution	1
Chaplains and the legitimacy of drone warfare: experimental evidence from the US Army	1
Perceived threat and demographic misperception	1
The administration and regulation of cash waqfs: Bangladesh and Malaysia in perspective	1
The (null) effect of climate change beliefs on disaster preparedness by houses of worship	1
Neutralizing the sacred space: pre-election messages in a typical Indonesian city	1
The politics of church shopping	1
Liberalism of religious Muslims in illiberal Muslim-majority and minority societies: evidence from Azerbaijan and Georgia	1
Early stirrings of modern liberty in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas	1
RAP volume 15 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	1
Surviving Repression: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood after the 2013 Coup By Lucia Ardovini. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. 168 pp., £ 80.00, cloth, ISBN 978-1-5261-4929-9.	1
Palestinians, Kurds, and Muslims between them: war, faith, and the limits of cross-national solidarity	1
Free Exercise of Religion in the Liberal Polity: Conflicting Interpretations By Emily R. Gill. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 296 pp. $109 cloth.	1
Populism and religion: an intricate and varying relationship	1
Views on political Islam among Australian converts to Islam: findings of a national survey	1
The Origins of Secular Institutions: Ideas, Timing, and Organization By H. Zeynep Bulutgil. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. 272 pp. $32.99 paperback.	1
Religious Appeals in Power Politics By Peter S. Henne. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. 222 pp. $27.95 paperback.	0
Good citizens: legitimization strategies of new religious movements in Israel	0
Explaining the relationship between religiosity and anti-diversity attitudes among Christians in Western Germany	0
Christian religiosity and nativism: populist government participation as an influencing factor?	0
Do we need a radical redefinition of secularism? A critique of Charles Taylor	0
The colonial origins of secularization: historical pathways of economic elites and religiosity in the Middle East and North Africa	0
Who leads the flock? Religion and the radical right among Brazilian migrants	0
Membership in a stigmatized religious minority and political support: nonreligious individuals running for office in the United States	0
Riding two horses: a coherence model of religiosity and terrorism threat perception	0
Christian nationalism and support for leaders violating democratic norms during national emergencies	0
Faith-based organizations and religious nationalism	0
Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of this World By Taylor C. Boas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. ix+317 pp. $99.99 cloth.	0
Differentiation of religiosity and its effects on biopolitical orientations among Catholics: evidence from Poland	0
When political crises result in secularization: the secularist effects of the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire	0
Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision. By Diane Winston . Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. 265 pages. $35.00 cloth	0
Backlash to Christian nationalism: The impact of the January 6 ^th insurrection on Americans’ religiosity and political partisanship	0

The U.S. Christian Right and Pro-Family Politics in 21st Century Africa By Haley McEwen. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, 2024. xiv+144 pp. $49.99 hardcover, $34.99 e-book.	0
Christian nationalism and attitudes about democracy in Africa	0
Religion, spirituality, and susceptibility to conspiracy theories: examining the role of analytic thinking and post-critical beliefs	0
Vineeta Yadav, Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 384p. $86.00 cloth.	0
Battle of sects? Iran and Saudi Arabia’s role conflict	0
Christian churches and social welfare in secular times: How goal congruence shapes religious involvement in morality-based social services	0
Sacred speech: analyzing the influence of congressional leadership on religious rhetoric	0
Explaining the distinction between religious and political activism in Islamism: evidence from the Tunisian case	0
Veiling in rural Bangladesh: women’s rights consciousness, choice, and subjectivity	0
The Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West By Tobias Cremer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 350 pp. $29.99 paperback.	0
Church services and religious change in Burundi	0
The relationship between state-provided Islamic education and Islamism	0
Why do State Policies toward Religious Minorities Change? Evidence from the Muslim Minority in Postcommunist Bulgaria	0
Which civil religion? Partisanship, Christian nationalism, and the dimensions of civil religion in the United States	0
Arrival of legal Salafism and struggle for recognition in Germany—reflection and adaptation processes within the German da'wa movement between 2001 and 2022	0
Religious Minorities at Risk By Matthias Basedau, Jonathan Fox and Ariel Zellman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. viii-326 pp. $83, hardcover	0
“The worker deserves his wages”? Religion and support for organized labor in the U.S. Senate	0
The cycle of monasticism: understanding the nature of medieval economic and political innovation	0
Political and personal religious attitudes: the role of religion in intragroup and intergroup conflicts (evidence from the Middle East)	0
The sacred gun: the religious and magical elements of America's gun culture	0
Religious tolerance in the Arab Gulf states: Christian organizations, soft power, and the politics of sustaining the “family–state” beyond the rentier model	0
RAP volume 15 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
The ingroup love and outgroup hate of Christian Nationalism: experimental evidence about the implementation of the rule of law	0
Improving the measurement of biblical interpretation in social science research	0
Faith-based organizations as political actors in local refugee politics: Christian and Islamic communities in Germany	0
Guardian of the Wall: Leo Pfeffer and the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment By J. David Holcomb. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. viii + 246. $111.00 cloth.	0
On Salafism. Concepts and Contexts By Azmi Bishara. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. vii+228 pp. $60.00 hardcover.	0
Religiosity matters: assessing competing explanations of support for secularism in Quebec and Canada	0
Dieu dans la commune: religion and voting in the 2017 French election	0
Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran: A Socio-Legal Analysis. By Sajjad Adeliyan Tous and James T. Richardson . Cambridge University Press, 2024. 80 pp. ＄23.00 paper, ＄25.00 digital	0
Asymmetric conflation: QAnon and the political cooptation of religion	0
How Religious Affiliation and Race/Ethnicity Shape Presidential Policy Approval	0
The regulation of religion in public spaces	0
Fighting against assisted dying in Spain: catholic-inspired civic mobilization during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies By Güneş Murat Tezcür. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. 270 pp. $31.95 paperback.	0
Of Pilgrimages and Restorations: Religion, Heritage and Politics in divided Cyprus – CORRIGENDUM	0
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940 By Margaret Chowning. Princeton University Press, 2023. 376 pp. $45.00 hardcover, $32.00 paperback.	0
It’s the practice, not the pew: religious attendance, denominational differences, and political participation in Taiwan	0
Under God’s protective wings: does exposure to violent conflict make Nigerians value God more?	0
Catholic churches’ stances toward electoral manipulation in the post-Third Wave period	0
Time for religion? Liberalism, Haredi Jews, and state regulation of nonpublic schools	0
Divine attribution? The interaction of religious and secular beliefs on climate change attitudes	0
Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics. By R. Khari Brown, Ronald E. Brown, and James S. Jackson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2021. xii+167 pp. $70.00 cloth.; Decodi	0
An Epidemic among My People: Religion, Politics, and COVID-19 in the United States By Paul A. Djupe and Amanda Friesen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2023. 322 pp. $115.50 hardcover, $	0
Israel: a novel wedge issue in Canadian electoral politics	0
The shifting Christian right discourse on religious freedom in Australia	0
Was there an enthusiasm gap? Examining support for Donald Trump among evangelicals and nonevangelicals	0
The power politics of the Holy See: the church, the state, and its citizens	0
Tilled fields for Christian Nationalism: Project Blitz and the evolution of the Christian Right	0
The weakness of anti-Christian nationalism: when religiously inclusive orientations can’t increase tolerance	0
Of pilgrimages and restorations: religion, heritage and politics in divided Cyprus	0
A colorblind Christian country? How racial attitudes affect support for Christian nationalism and civil religion	0
Navigating sectarianism: the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the international relations of the Middle East	0
Prayer as socialist praxis: religion and recommitment for Hermann Cohen and the doubly marked martyrs of the November revolution in Germany	0
When do progressive evangelicals mobilize? Intra-denominational competing identities in Chile's constitutional process	0
Politics and preaching: how religious elites justify addressing or avoiding political topics	0
Political responsiveness and centralized religious leaders: lessons from the Catholic Church	0
Rainbows, Unicorns, and Separation of Church and State in the European Union	0