Author: rcragun
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InCREDulity in Artificial Societies
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- on May 11, 2021
Citation:Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan, Wesley J. Wildman, Kevin McCaffree, Ryan T. Cragun, and F. LeRon Shults. 2021. “InCREDulity in Artificial Societies.” Pp. 81–94 in Advances in Social Simulation: Proceedings of the 15th Social Simulation Conference: 23-27 September 2019, Springer Proceedings in Complexity, edited by P. Ahrweiler and M. Neumann. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This book […]
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Nothing Is Not Something: On Replacing Nonreligion with Identities
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- on Apr 29, 2021
Citation: Cragun, Ryan T., and Kevin J. McCaffree. 2021. “Nothing Is Not Something: On Replacing Nonreligion with Identities.” Secular Studies 3(1):7–26. doi: 10.1163/25892525-bja10017. This article can be downloaded here.
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Religious Exiting and Social Networks: Computer Simulations of Religious/Secular Pluralism
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- on Mar 12, 2021
Citation: Cragun, Ryan, Kevin McCaffree, Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, Wesley Wildman, and F. LeRon Shults. 2021. “Religious Exiting and Social Networks: Computer Simulations of Religious/Secular Pluralism.” Secularism and Nonreligion 10(1):2. doi: 10.5334/snr.129. This article can be downloaded here.
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We Do Not Think It Means What They Think It Means: A Response to Thunström et al
- rcragun
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- on Feb 15, 2021
Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., and David Speed. (forthcoming.) “We Do Not Think It Means What They Think It Means: A Response to Thunström et al.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. doi: . This response can be downloaded here.
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Little Gamer Boy (from Little Drummer Boy)
- rcragun
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- on Dec 31, 2020
Lyrics Thumb they told mePa rum pum pum pum A new game release to seePa rum pum pum pum Honed by years of practicingPa rum pum pum pum So I can be the kingPa rum pum pum pumRum pum pum pumRum pum pum pum Got to engage themPa rum pum pum pumWhen we thumb My […]
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Summing Up: Problems and Prospects for a Global Church in the 21st Century
- rcragun
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- on Dec 12, 2020
Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. 2020. “Summing Up: Problems and Prospects for a Global Church in the 21st Century.” Pp. 817–49 in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism, edited by G. Shepherd, Gary Shepherd, and R. T. Cragun. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. This chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism
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- on Nov 17, 2020
This handbook explores contemporary Mormonism within a global context. The authors provide a nuanced picture of a historically American religion in the throes of the same kinds of global change that virtually every conservative faith tradition faces today. They explain where and how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has penetrated national and […]
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