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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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	52
The varieties of American Christian nationalism	20
Whatever happened to new atheism? The rise and fall of the U.S. atheist movement	10
Holy day surveys and political attitudes in Israel	9
Do discriminatory laws have societal origins? The diffusion of anti-Ahmadiyah regulations in Indonesia	8
Does deference to religious authority predict support for political violence?	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.	7
God’s country: perceptions of religious and place-based candidate identities	7
Clergywomen, women’s ordination, and “women’s issues”: women’s representation in American religious congregations	7
Self-censorship in communist China: text analysis of sermons from state-registered churches	7
(In)stability in American public attitudes toward Jews: a panel analysis	5
Islamic doctrine and women's economic rights: implications of an ambiguous relationship for state policy in the Muslim world	5
Globalization and religious resurgence: a comparative analysis	5
Toward electoral (ir)relevance of moral traditionalism? Religious decline and voting in Western Europe (1981–2017)	4
Which political entities are “Friendly” to religion? The interplay of entity, identity congruence, and Christian nationalism	4
Christian democracy as political spirituality: transcendence as transformation—Italian politics, 1942–1953	4
Pope Francis as an influential leader? How papal statements affect public attitudes toward anti-poverty measures	4
An organizational perspective on fading system-ness: Insights from Ennahda’s post-specialization period (2016–2021)	4
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	3
Division on the Christian right: Republican pastors and the use of force	3
RAP volume 15 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
Neither secular nor sectarian: perspectives on social life and politics among Beirut's religiously devout youth	3
Catholicism, Pluralism and American Democracy	3
A spiritual call: the courses of action taken by individuals influenced by religious soft power	3
RAP volume 15 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	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
Whither the Wall? Measuring Church–State Separation During COVID-19	3
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
“Je suis … Charlie, Samuel, Muhammed”: Practicing Muhammed Cartoons in Far Right and Islamist Politics	2
Islamic religious behaviors and civic engagement in Europe and North America	2
Facing Janus: local politics, Muslim leadership, and regulatory outcomes in Belgium	2
Social activism against the desecularization of non-religious state education in Israel: a social movement lens	2
Mapping the concept of fundamentalism: a scoping review	2
What do we know about religion and interreligious peace? A review of the quantitative literature	2
The role of religion in integration through intermarriage: The case of Bhutanese refugees in Michigan	2
Religious citizens, secular states: why do states in sub-Saharan Africa provide minimal support to religion?	2
Clergy-lay political (mis)alignment in 2019–2020	2
Preparedness Behavior and the apocalypse: religion and politics in the post 2020 election era	2
From religious to secular perspectives of religion and state—tracing the American Blue laws	2
Islam to the state legislature: an exploratory analysis of Muslim American candidate supply and demand	2
Evangelical attitudes toward Syrian refugees: are evangelicals distinctive in their opposition to Syrian refugees to the United States?	2
Church and state in contemporary China: securing Christianity	1
Liberalism of religious Muslims in illiberal Muslim-majority and minority societies: evidence from Azerbaijan and Georgia	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
RAP volume 15 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	1
Neutralizing the sacred space: pre-election messages in a typical Indonesian city	1
The politics of church shopping	1
Chaplains and the legitimacy of drone warfare: experimental evidence from the US Army	1
God is Green: The Catholic Church's Re-Imagination of Environmental Norms	1
Perceived threat and demographic misperception	1
The Cambridge Companion to the First Amendment and Religious Liberty Edited by Michael D. Breidenbach and Owen Anderson. Cambridge, UK, and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Xii+4	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
The secular paradox in the “world’s most progressive” constitution	1
RAP volume 15 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
RAP volume 15 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
Early stirrings of modern liberty in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas	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
Explaining the relationship between religiosity and anti-diversity attitudes among Christians in Western Germany	0
Religious Appeals in Power Politics By Peter S. Henne. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. 222 pp. $27.95 paperback.	0
Politics and preaching: how religious elites justify addressing or avoiding political topics	0
Christian nationalism and attitudes about democracy in Africa	0
Love and the Winter: C.S. Lewis, Nigel Biggar, and Marc LiVecche on Enemy Love	0
Vineeta Yadav, Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 384p. $86.00 cloth.	0
Sacred speech: analyzing the influence of congressional leadership on religious rhetoric	0
How Religious Affiliation and Race/Ethnicity Shape Presidential Policy Approval	0
Good citizens: legitimization strategies of new religious movements in Israel	0
The regulation of religion in public spaces	0
Differentiation of religiosity and its effects on biopolitical orientations among Catholics: evidence from Poland	0
“I Will Bless Those Who Bless You”: Evangelicalism and Support for Israel in Latin America—ADDENDUM	0
On Salafism. Concepts and Contexts By Azmi Bishara. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. vii+228 pp. $60.00 hardcover.	0
Divine attribution? The interaction of religious and secular beliefs on climate change attitudes	0
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940 By Margaret Chowning. Princeton University Press, 2023. 376 pp. $45.00 hardcover, $32.00 paperback.	0

Faith-based organizations and religious nationalism	0
Israel: a novel wedge issue in Canadian electoral politics	0
Prayer as socialist praxis: religion and recommitment for Hermann Cohen and the doubly marked martyrs of the November revolution in Germany	0
The ingroup love and outgroup hate of Christian Nationalism: experimental evidence about the implementation of the rule of law	0
The power politics of the Holy See: the church, the state, and its citizens	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
The shifting Christian right discourse on religious freedom in Australia	0
Explaining the distinction between religious and political activism in Islamism: evidence from the Tunisian case	0
The weakness of anti-Christian nationalism: when religiously inclusive orientations can’t increase tolerance	0
RAP volume 15 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
The Origins of Secular Institutions: Ideas, Timing, and Organization By H. Zeynep Bulutgil. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. 272 pp. $32.99 paperback.	0
Of pilgrimages and restorations: religion, heritage and politics in divided Cyprus	0
Asymmetric conflation: QAnon and the political cooptation of religion	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
Why do State Policies toward Religious Minorities Change? Evidence from the Muslim Minority in Postcommunist Bulgaria	0
Christian churches and social welfare in secular times: How goal congruence shapes religious involvement in morality-based social services	0
Membership in a stigmatized religious minority and political support: nonreligious individuals running for office in the United States	0
Fighting against assisted dying in Spain: catholic-inspired civic mobilization during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Of Pilgrimages and Restorations: Religion, Heritage and Politics in divided Cyprus – CORRIGENDUM	0
The relationship between state-provided Islamic education and Islamism	0
A colorblind Christian country? How racial attitudes affect support for Christian nationalism and civil religion	0
Tilled fields for Christian Nationalism: Project Blitz and the evolution of the Christian Right	0
Dieu dans la commune: religion and voting in the 2017 French election	0
When political crises result in secularization: the secularist effects of the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire	0
Political and personal religious attitudes: the role of religion in intragroup and intergroup conflicts (evidence from the Middle East)	0
Christian religiosity and nativism: populist government participation as an influencing factor?	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
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
Who leads the flock? Religion and the radical right among Brazilian migrants	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
The sacred gun: the religious and magical elements of America's gun culture	0
Political Survival through Religious Instrumentalism: Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam Fazlur Rehman's Resistance to Madrassah Reforms in Pakistan	0
Religion, spirituality, and susceptibility to conspiracy theories: examining the role of analytic thinking and post-critical beliefs	0
Does it Matter if the President Isn't Pious? White Evangelicals and Elite Religiosity in the Trump Era	0
The cycle of monasticism: understanding the nature of medieval economic and political innovation	0
Battle of sects? Iran and Saudi Arabia’s role conflict	0
Religiosity matters: assessing competing explanations of support for secularism in Quebec and Canada	0
Amicus Curiae Briefs and the Competing Legal Agendas of White Protestants in the United States, 1969–2020	0
When do progressive evangelicals mobilize? Intra-denominational competing identities in Chile's constitutional process	0
Rainbows, Unicorns, and Separation of Church and State in the European Union	0
Political responsiveness and centralized religious leaders: lessons from the Catholic Church	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
Do we need a radical redefinition of secularism? A critique of Charles Taylor	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
Veiling in rural Bangladesh: women’s rights consciousness, choice, and subjectivity	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
Christian nationalism and support for leaders violating democratic norms during national emergencies	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
The Psychometric Properties of the Christian Nationalism Scale	0
Which civil religion? Partisanship, Christian nationalism, and the dimensions of civil religion in the United States	0
Was there an enthusiasm gap? Examining support for Donald Trump among evangelicals and nonevangelicals	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
“The worker deserves his wages”? Religion and support for organized labor in the U.S. Senate	0
Supporting the Right to Wear Religious Symbols: The Importance of Perceived Commitment to the Nation	0
Improving the measurement of biblical interpretation in social science research	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