OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Politics and 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Influence of State Favoritism on Established Religions and Their Competitors	35
Lazarev Egor. 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	16
The varieties of American Christian nationalism	12
Religion in Indonesia's Elections: An Implementation of a Populist Strategy?	8
Whatever happened to new atheism? The rise and fall of the U.S. atheist movement	7
Political Budget Cycles in Autocracies: The Role of Religious Seasons and Political Collective Action	7
Holy day surveys and political attitudes in Israel	7
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.	6
From the Communists and Post-Communists Alike: State-Paid Salaries of the Clergy in the Czech Lands 1949–2012	6
Do discriminatory laws have societal origins? The diffusion of anti-Ahmadiyah regulations in Indonesia	6
Coethnicity Beyond Clientelism: Insights from an Experimental Study of Political Behavior in Lebanon	5
Support for Domestic Islamist Terrorism in Bangladesh: Insights from a Novel Survey	5
(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
Which political entities are “Friendly” to religion? The interplay of entity, identity congruence, and Christian nationalism	4
Christian Interest Groups in A Religiously Changing United Kingdom: Issues, Strategies, Influence	4
Pope Francis as an influential leader? How papal statements affect public attitudes toward anti-poverty measures	4
Globalization and religious resurgence: a comparative analysis	4
An organizational perspective on fading system-ness: Insights from Ennahda’s post-specialization period (2016–2021)	4
From the Specter of Polygamy to the Spectacle of Postcoloniality: A Response to Bai on Confucianism, Liberalism, and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate	4
Christian democracy as political spirituality: transcendence as transformation—Italian politics, 1942–1953	3
Division on the Christian right: Republican pastors and the use of force	3
RAP volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
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
Toward electoral (ir)relevance of moral traditionalism? Religious decline and voting in Western Europe (1981–2017)	3

Neither secular nor sectarian: perspectives on social life and politics among Beirut's religiously devout youth	3
RAP volume 15 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
RAP volume 15 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
Catholicism, Pluralism and American Democracy	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
Social activism against the desecularization of non-religious state education in Israel: a social movement lens	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
What do we know about religion and interreligious peace? A review of the quantitative literature	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
Mapping the concept of fundamentalism: a scoping review	2
RAP volume 14 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	2
Islamic religious behaviors and civic engagement in Europe and North America	2
Preparedness Behavior and the apocalypse: religion and politics in the post 2020 election era	2
A spiritual call: the courses of action taken by individuals influenced by religious soft power	2
Racial Limitations on the Gender, Risk, Religion, and Politics Model	2
“Je suis … Charlie, Samuel, Muhammed”: Practicing Muhammed Cartoons in Far Right and Islamist Politics	2
RAP volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2