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The LGBT Politics of Religious Nones Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-22 Philip Schwadel, Kelsy Burke, Emily Kazyak
Although nonreligious Americans are more likely than religious Americans to support LGBT rights, we know little about variation among the nonreligious. Research points to large political differences among nonreligious Americans, which could extend to views of LGBT rights. Using nationally representative survey data, we find that atheists are sometimes more supportive of LGBT rights than are agnostics;
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After Restructuring: Understanding Religion, Nonreligion, and Spirituality in the Twenty-First Century Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Penny Edgell
The Restructuring of American Religion (1988) provided a still-influential framework for the study of American religion that centered the emergence, after World War II, of a left–right religio-political divide driving mobilization around conflicts understood as moral. But in the last 30 years, the landscape of American religion has been transformed by decline in commitment to mainstream religious institutions
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Challenging Identity Conflict: How Queer, Trans, and Nonbinary Muslim Organizations Incite Activism Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Golshan Golriz
This article synthesizes new directions taken in the sociology of religion and social movement studies and examines Queer, Trans, and Nonbinary (QTN) Muslim activism in Toronto, Canada. The author argues that Queer Trans and Nonbinary Muslim Organizations (QTNMOs) do more than help reconcile their members’ conflicting identities. Instead, QTNMOs use intersectional frameworks to help QTN Muslims resist
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Feminizing Patriarchy: Christian Churches and Gender Inequality in Rural Africa Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Victor Agadjanian
In dialogue with the cross-national scholarship on gender and religion, the study uses a unique combination of rich qualitative and quantitative data from a predominantly Christian rural sub-Saharan setting to examine how churches modify, yet also sustain and even reinforce, patriarchal norms. It shows how churches replace the traditional, extended family-based model of gender inequality with a pseudo-modern
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The Enchantment of Science: Aesthetics and Spirituality in Scientific Work Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Benedetta Nicoli, Stefano Sbalchiero, Brandon Vaidyanathan
Scientists have long been depicted as mainly rational, bereft of emotional and personal commitments, and disenchanted. Such a view assumes the practice of science as sterile and inoculated from aesthetic and spiritual experiences. This article questions such assumptions by investigating how scientists experience beauty, wonder, and awe in their work as a source of enchantment—a sense of awe and wonder
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The Spiritual Turn and “Feminization”: Turning a Gender Lens on Spirituality Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Galen Watts, Francesco Cerchiaro, Landon Schnabel
Although women and men identify as “spiritual” in similar numbers, far more women participate in the holistic milieu. We seek to solve this “gender puzzle” by fleshing out the gender scripts the holistic milieu fosters, and their varying relationships to the wider gender order. Surveying existing scholarship, we show that, for women, participation serves to naturalize a script of postfeminist femininity
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Religious Polarization in Europe Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-09 Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, David Voas, Kirstie Hewlett
We define two types of religious polarization and investigate the extent to which they are present across European countries, based on data from the 2008 to 2017 European Values Study and hierarchical linear modeling. The first type is polarization by religiosity, with declines in the middle ground between the actively religious and the nonreligious as secularization reaches an advanced stage. The
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“You Can’t Just Give People Food”: Whiteness in Practice at an Evangelical Food Pantry Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Andrew McNeely
Whiteness continues to be a focus of scholarly research particularly as it informs understandings of white evangelical religious structures, organizations, and practices. This study draws on 34 months of ethnographic study to present a case study of an evangelical food pantry in central Texas and analyzes the policies, roles, and norms of the volunteers. The findings document examples of white, conservative
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Religion Lived In-Between. Time, Space, and Religious Practices of Roman Catholic Women in Poland Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Anna Szwed
The article focuses on the role of time and space in the religious practices of Roman Catholic women. It aims to demonstrate not only how the spatial-temporal conditions of everyday life shape religious practices, but also how the space and time for practicing religion are produced as a result of practices. The article also shows how religious and other practices compete for limited spatial-temporal
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The Beliefs of Nonbelievers: Exclusive Empiricism and Mortal Finitude Among Atheists and Agnostics Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Joseph Blankholm, Ryan Cragun, Abraham Hawley Suárez, Shakir Stephen
This essay argues that “atheist” and “agnostic” are not merely negative labels that indicate a person lacks belief in God or is not religious. Relying on a new survey of very secular Americans and the General Social Survey, we demonstrate a statistically significant and substantively meaningful relationship, in both predictive directions, between identifying as atheist or agnostic and holding certain
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Rising Security and Religious Decline: Refining and Extending Insecurity Theory Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Francesco Molteni
Explaining the reasons—while not the causes—behind religious decline is a central issue for sociologists interested in secularization processes. Many theoretical perspectives have been proposed over the last decades, and this article focuses on one of them. In particular, it refers to the so-called insecurity theory, formalized by Norris and Inglehart (2011), which reads processes of religious decline
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Becoming Humanist: Worldview Formation and the Emergence of Atheist Britain Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Anna Strhan, Lois Lee, Rachael Shillitoe
It is widely accepted that the growth of “non-religious” identification and “non-belief” in God(s) in many societies is linked to changing religious socialization. However, existing research mapping these intergenerational changes has largely focused on religious decline or the loss of belief—“push” factors—rather than exploring the distinctive non-religious forms of life into which children are growing
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Racial Justice and Racialized Religion: Are Progressive White Christians Getting It Right? Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Gerardo Martí
The core question guiding this research is: What happens when the project of racial justice, specifically, anti-black racism, is taken on by white progressive Christians and their churches? Acknowledging religion as racialized allows our scholarship to be more discerning and less naive, especially regarding the true potential of racial justice—even among those who are most faithfully attempting to
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Gender, Symbolic and Social Boundaries, and Deconversion from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Ines W. Jindra, Jenna Thompson, Fredi Giesler
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is characterized by specific expectations in the realm of gender roles and sexuality, expectations which can be interpreted as heteronormative symbolic boundaries between the LDS Church and the world at large. In this article, through qualitative interviews, we explore the ways 27 women who leave the Church are influenced by, respond to, and ultimately
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Sources of Inconsistency in the Measurement of Religious Affiliation: Evidence from a Survey Experiment and Cognitive Interviews Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Philip S Brenner, Jill LaPlante, Tracy L Reed?
Research has argued that estimates of the percentage of Americans without a religious affiliation may be influenced by a measurement artifact caused by the poor reliability of conventional survey questions. Using a question-order experiment and cognitive interviews, we assess religious affiliation measures like those commonly used on surveys. A filter question and a full question presenting a list
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Religion-Related Legitimations in Abortion Policy Making in Poland. What Do They Tell Us About the Public Role of Religion? Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Katarzyna Zielińska, Irena Borowik, Inga Koralewska, Marcin Zwierżdżyński
The existing research on and conceptualization of the public presence of religion usually builds on the Habermasian understanding of the public sphere. This has centered the discussion on the public presence of religion around the question of where such a presence is justified. Discourse theories offer an alternative understanding, stating that the public sphere is an area of struggles where diverse
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Still Soul Searching? Remapping Adolescent Religious Commitment Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Jeremy E Uecker, Carl Desportes Bowman
Sociologists know very little about the religious lives of the current generation of American adolescents. This study provides an updated portrait of adolescent religious commitment and direct tests of religious change across cohorts by comparing data from the 2017–2018 National Survey of Moral Formation to the 2002–2003 National Study of Youth and Religion. There has been a significant growth in the
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Religion and Subjective Social Class in the United States Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Philip Schwadel
Subjective social class identities—lower, working, middle, and upper—are conditioned by culture and social interactions. I argue that conservative Christianity influences subjective class identification because conservative Christian social networks are highly insular, and its culture prioritizes lower- and working-class ideologies. Using nationally representative data, I find that conservative Ch
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Divine Struggles Among Those Doing God’s Work: A Longitudinal Assessment Predicting Depression and Burnout and the Role of Social Support in United Methodist Clergy Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Laura Upenieks, David E Eagle
In this study, we examine the role of spiritual struggles among clergy, in the form of “divine struggle” or feelings of alienation from God and their associations with well-being (depressive symptoms and burnout) among clergy. Drawing from a life-stress perspective, we also test whether received and anticipated congregational support moderates these associations. Using two waves of data (2016–2019)
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The Funk of White Souls: Toward a Du Boisian Theory of the White Church Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Damon Mayrl
This article revisits the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois on the white church. Drawing on a synthetic reading of his scholarship on white Christianity, I argue that Du Bois conceives of the white church as a racialized organization that has been indelibly shaped by white supremacy. I then elaborate six mechanisms identified by Du Bois through which white churches further perpetuate white supremacy: legitimation
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What Makes Life Meaningful? Combinations of Meaningful Commitments Among Nonreligious and Religious Americans Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Penny Edgell, Mahala Miller, Jacqui Frost
Having a sense that one’s life is meaningful is related to, but distinct from, happiness, satisfaction, or living a moral life. Scholars across disciplines have investigated the role of religion in providing meaning or questioned whether religious decline prompts a crisis of meaninglessness. We use national survey data (2019, N = 1,326) to identify the overall patterns in what people find meaningful
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“The Tables Are Turning”: The Evangelical Defense of Anti-LGBTQ+ Religious Liberty Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Amy McDowell, Pace T Ward
This article extends research on how dominant groups use the rhetoric of marginality to defend and reinforce their control of the public sphere. We conducted interviews with evangelical churchgoers in Mississippi to understand the evangelical support for religious accommodations that privilege conservative Christian beliefs about sex, gender, and marriage. We found that rather than cite scripture about
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Sensitizing Blinders: Theorizing Theory in a Post-Colonial Era Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 James Spickard
Theories in the sociology of religion do more than identify the patterns that shape religious life. They also systematically hide other patterns from easy view. This often stems from the unexamined assumptions that each theory inherits from its cultural and historical context. This address presents three examples from the sociology of religion’s recent past. The first is an “underlying forces” theory
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The Religious Imaginary and the Repressive State: Science-based Beliefs of Ukrainian and Lithuanian Scientists Born in the USSR Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Maria Rogińska
The article explores aspects of the Soviet atheistic regime that contributed to the formation of the religious imaginary of believing Ukrainian and Lithuanian scientists born in 1930–1960s. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of them did not accept Orthodox, Catholic, or other institutional religions, but instead created their own privatized religious patterns, using science-related elements
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“You Know, the Church Has Never Agreed on Everything”: Analyzing the Prophetic and Pragmatic Voice in Clergy Sermons Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Laura M Krull, Claire Chipman Gilliland
Clergy have regular opportunities to take a prophetic stance on social issues in their weekly sermons, but they are also responsible for maintaining organizational stability. How do they respond to controversial denominational decisions? We collected sermons from United Methodist Church (UMC) clergy following the 2019 UMC decision to maintain their prohibition against same sex marriage and lesbian
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“Electronic Church” 2.0: Are Virtual and In-Person Attendance Associated with Mental and Physical Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Laura Upenieks, Terrence D Hill, Gabriel Acevedo, Harold G Koenig
Over the past four decades, studies have consistently shown that regular attendance at religious services is associated with better mental and physical health. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many congregations paused in-person religious services and moved their worship rituals online. The ways that churches have responded to the threat of infectious disease require new conceptualizations and
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Eternally Damned, Yet Socially Conscious? The Volunteerism of Canadian Atheists Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 David Speed, Penny Edgell
Research suggests that people who are religious may volunteer because religion is innately prosocial (i.e., inclination) or perhaps because religious communities provide volunteering chances (i.e., opportunities). Using data from Statistics Canada (General Social Survey, Cycle 33), we explored the relationship between different religious and nonreligious identities and volunteering behaviors, time
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Treating Religion as a Personal Choice: Opportunities and Dilemmas Involved in the Religious Identity Constructions of Turkish Muslim Immigrants Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Feyza Akova
Studies examining the implications of treating religion as a personal choice have often focused on whether this individualistic approach to religion has undermined or strengthened religious commitment and identity. My findings, which are based on qualitative in-depth interviews with 20 Turkish Muslim immigrants living in the United States, show that treating religion as a personal choice does not simply
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From “Civilian Clergy to Officer”: Hiring and Training Chaplains for Federal Government Positions Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Grace Tien, Wendy Cadge
This article asks how people hired into federal chaplaincy positions are trained on the job. We find that unlike those hired into positions based on education, knowledge, and skills to date, chaplains are hired—by design—without some of the skills required for the job. Employers do not expect hired chaplains to understand organizational norms and practices, and so we identify strategies like inculcation
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“Bring Your Straight Friends”: Anti-Gay Religious Stigma and Black and White LGB-Affirming Church Members Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Austin Colby Guy Lee
This comparative study of Black and white members of LGB-affirming churches finds that race plays a major role in shaping the socio-temporal contexts in which American Protestants come to understand anti-gay religious stigma and make meaning of their affiliation to LGB-affirming churches. Through interviews with 13 Black and 14 white members of churches that actively describe themselves as affirming
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Religion as a Resource in an Increasingly Polarized Society Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 James Cavendish
Recent research in the social scientific study of religion has drawn attention to how distinct religious identities and cultures have supported nationalist impulses and fueled political polarization across a variety of national contexts. This growing body of literature makes it clear that religious ideals and identities can be used to frame issues, draw boundaries, and drive a wedge down the middle
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White Habitus Among Polish White Female Converts to Islam Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Anna Piela, Joanna Krotofil
This article addresses the question of how the racial habitus of Polish White female converts (PWFCs) to Islam is performed in different social settings. We draw from in-depth interviews with 35 PWFCs living in Poland and the United Kingdom. While the notion of habitus has been used to analyze socialization into Islam, racial habitus has not been analyzed in relation to White converts to Islam. We
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Modest Dress at Work as Lived Religion: Women’s Dress in Religious Work Contexts in Saudi Arabia and the UK Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Kristin Aune, Reina Lewis, Lina Molokotos-Liederman
This article explores how women in religious workplaces respond to organizational norms of and requirements for modest dress and behavior, both implicit and explicit. It compares two case studies: women working for faith-based organizations (FBOs) in the UK, and women working for secular organizations who travel for work to Saudi Arabia, where the state requirement to dress modesty meant wearing an
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Race, Religion, and Geopolitics: Dating and Romance Among South Asian Muslim Immigrants in Canada Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Tahseen Shams
Using the “complex religion” framework, this article shows the importance of religion while recognizing how race, national origin, and geopolitics shape how Muslims navigate their romantic lives. Based on 50 in-depth interviews of South Asian Muslim immigrants in Canada on interfaith and interracial romance, I show that taken-for-granted labels “Muslim” and “South Asian” are ambiguous even for the
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The Other Black Church: Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom, by JOSEPH L. TUCKER EDMONDS Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Eric L McDaniel
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Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics, by R. KHARI BROWN Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Nicholas A Pearce
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Getting Permission to Break the Rules: Clergy Respond to LGBTQ Exclusion in the United Methodist Church Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Claire Chipman Gilliland,Laura M Krull
Abstract Organizational scholars expect organizations to conform to the norms and expectations of their institutional environments. In some cases, though, organizations may reject rules if they perceive a greater advantage to defiance than to conformity. This project analyzes a sample of sermons given by United Methodist Church (UMC) clergy surrounding the 2019 UMC General Conference. We focus on a
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Negotiating Belonging: Race, Class, and Religion in the Brazilian Quest for “Becoming American” Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Rodrigo Serrão
This study examines how members of a majority second-generation Brazilian church in South Florida perceive their English-speaking, “American” congregation compared to the Portuguese-speaking Brazilian congregation from which they originated. Data for this research are drawn from in-depth, open-ended interviews with 32 members from different ethnoracial backgrounds, participant observation, and content
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Varieties of Atheism in Science, by ELAINE HOWARD ECKLUND Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Noy S.
Varieties of Atheism in Science, by HOWARD ECKLUNDELAINE and JOHNSONDAVID R.. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021, 1224 pp., $24.95 (hardcover).
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The False Dichotomy of Sex and Religion in America Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Kelsy Burke
Religion and sexuality are polysemic categories. While conservative religion often fights against progressive sexual politics in contemporary America, this “usual story” is fractured and destabilized by people navigating the relationship between religion and sexuality as complex social creatures, not pundits or caricatures. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarship, I examine salient issues of sexual
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Preacher Woman: A Critical Look at Sexism Without Sexists, by KATIE LAUVE-MOON Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-11 Knoll B.
Preacher Woman: A Critical Look at Sexism Without Sexists, by LAUVE-MOONKATIE. New York:Oxford University Press, 2021, 2561 pp.; $99.00 (hardcover), $29.95 (paperback).
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Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality, by TODNE THOMAS Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Allen S.
Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality, by THOMASTODNE. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021, 1 pp.; $26.95 (paperback), $99.95 (cloth).
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ASR News and Announcements Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Kraus R.
ASR is currently conducting a search for the next editor of Sociology of Religion. The deadline for applications to be the next editor is April 1st, 2022. Full details about the call and the required materials for applications can be found on the following webpage: https://academic.oup.com/socrel/pages/call_for_editor.
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Latinx Protestants and American Politics Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Gerardo Martí
The rise in the proportion of Latinx Protestants in the United States may be coinciding with an increased alignment with neoliberal political agendas—a rising Christian Latinidad aligning with white Christian priorities—which benefits a long-established hierarchy of whiteness and further accentuates racial and economic inequalities. The significance of this still-strengthening religious identity is
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Reconnecting Religion and Community in a Small City: How Urban Amenities Afford Religious Amenities Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Audra Dugandzic
Recently, sociologists of religion have argued that rather than treating geographical location as a mere backdrop against which religion happens, scholars ought to theorize how place characteristics influence, and are shaped by, religion. In particular, they focus on urbanicity, a key variable in the secularization debate. Drawing on interviews with 50 Catholic and non-Catholic residents of a small
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“Some Vital Religion”: Social Religion and the Science of Character Education in the United States, 1918–1932 Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Jane McCamant
The history of American public education has generally been considered as a steady transition from religious and sectarian to secular and pluralist, with the role of science in education increasing as the role of religion decreased. This article examines a conception of the role of religion in education that does not fit this narrative, the “social religion” of theorists of moral and character education
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Between Online Autonomy and Local Constraints: Spaces of Roman Catholic Women’s Activity in Poland Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-05 Anna Szwed
The analysis presented in this article shows how a hybrid community combining online and offline activity generates a semi-autonomous space of women's activity, neither fully independent of the religious institution, nor entirely controlled by it. Based on results obtained over 15 months of qualitative research conducted in the Captivating (Urzekająca), conservative community of Roman Catholic women
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Armed Conflict and Religious Adherence Across Countries: A Time Series Analysis Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-05 Nohemi Jocabeth Echeverría Vicente, Kenneth Hemmerechts, Dimokritos Kavadias
A fundamental question in the comparative sociology of religion is: What are the drivers of cross-national differences in religiosity? The existential insecurity argument raises the expectation of higher levels of religiosity in contexts of social crisis. We test this argument against countries’ armed conflict experiences, employing global longitudinal data on religious adherence over almost half a
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A Theory of Political Backlash: Assessing the Religious Right’s Effects on the Religious Field Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Ruth Braunstein
A growing body of evidence suggests that the rise in religious disaffiliation can be partly attributed to a political backlash against the Religious Right. Yet the concept of “political backlash” remains undertheorized, limiting our ability to evaluate how backlash against the Religious Right has impacted the religious field as a whole. This article develops a general account of how political backlash
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Protestant Missionaries Are Associated With Reduced Community Cohesion Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Anselm Hager
Do Protestant missionaries affect community cohesion? This study puts forth two mechanisms that link missionaries to trusting, cooperative community life: pro-social preferences and social networks. On the one hand, Protestant missionaries espouse charity, and they establish regular venues of social interaction. On the other hand, Protestant missionaries propagate an individualist faith, and they provide
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Theodicy and Crisis: Explaining Variation in U.S. Believers’ Faith Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Kraig Beyerlein, David Nirenberg, Geneviève Zubrzycki
Based on a national survey of U.S. adults conducted six weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, this article investigates how crisis affects religious faith. Almost no Americans reported losing or a weakening of faith in response to the pandemic at this time. By contrast, nearly one-third of believers indicated that the coronavirus outbreak had strengthened their faith. We theoretically develop and empirically
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Spiritual Entrepreneurs: Florida’s Faith-based Prisons and the American Carceral State Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Mar Griera
Spiritual Entrepreneurs: Florida’s Faith-based Prisons and the American Carceral State, by STODDARDBRAD. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021, 1 272 pp.; $95.00 (hardcover), $24.95 (paperback).
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Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Timothy Longman
Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan, by TOUNSELCHRISTOPHER. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021, 224 pp1.; $99.95 (cloth), $25.95 (paperback).
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The Globalization of an Interaction Ritual Chain: “Clapping for Carers” During the Conflict Against COVID-19 Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-22 Alexandre Rigal, David Joseph-Goteiner
Sociologists have long been interested in the theoretical possibility of a universal ritual. Despite a growing number of indicators of world society and globalization, there have not been attempts to observe and analyze the international reach of particular rituals. We propose an extension of the “interaction ritual chain” by theorizing how an interaction ritual might be created and diffused internationally
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Divine Warning or Prelude to Secularization? Religion, Politics, and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-22 Ateş Altınordu
Religion was a major pillar in the government’s pandemic management and featured centrally in a string of public controversies in the course of the coronavirus crisis in Turkey. This article analyzes the role of Islam in the political and social responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey, with a focus on four dimensions: (1) religion as a tool of governance, (2) the regulation of collective religious
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Empty Churches: Non-Affiliation in America, by JAMES L. HEFT, S. M. and JAN E. STETS Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 James C Cavendish
Empty Churches: Non-Affiliation in America, edited by HEFT, S. M.JAMES L. and STETSJAN E.. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, 3681 pp.; $92.07 (cloth), $27.00 (paperback).
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When Sorrow Comes: The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter, by MELISSA M. MATTHES Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Gorski P.
When Sorrow Comes: The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter, by MATTHESMELISSA M.. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021, 440 pp.; $45.00 (hardcover).
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Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era, by DANIEL R. BARE Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Yancey G.
Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era, by BAREDANIEL R.. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2021, 272 pp.; $89.00 (hardcover), $30.00 (paperback).
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Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice, by RACHEL B. GROSSCultural Disjunctions: Post-Traditional Jewish Identity, by PAUL MENDES-FLOHR Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Caplan J.
Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice, by GROSSRACHEL B.. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2021, 272 1pp.; $39.00 (hardcover).
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Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality, by ANDREA R. JAIN Sociology of Religion (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-24 Singleton A.
Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality, by JAINANDREA R.. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020, 2091 pp.; $24.95 (paperback).