Outcast Women: Gender and Authenticity in Ex-Mormon Women’s Disaffiliation Narratives

Citation:Gull, Bethany, Jesse Smith, and Ryan Cragun. 2023. “Outcast Women: Gender and Authenticity in Ex-Mormon Women’s Disaffiliation Narratives.” Nova Religio 26(3):7–29. doi: 10.1525/nr.2023.26.3.7. This article is available for download here.

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Summing Up: Problems and Prospects for a Global Church in the 21st Century

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.

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Incorporating Transgender Experience Toward a More Inclusive Gender Lens in the Sociology of Religion

Citation: Sumerau, J. E., Lain A. B. Mathers, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2018. “Incorporating Transgender Experience Toward a More Inclusive Gender Lens in the Sociology of Religion.” Sociology of Religion 79(4):425–48. You can download this article here.

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The Limits of Homonormativity: Constructions of Bisexual and Transgender People in the Post Gay Era

Citation: Sumerau, J. E., Lain A. B. Mathers, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2018. “The Limits of Homonormativity: Constructions of Bisexual and Transgender People in the Post Gay Era.” Sociological Perspectives 61(6):934–52. You can download this article here.

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Christianity and the Limits of Minority Acceptance in America: God Loves (Almost) Everyone

Christianity and the Limits of Minority Acceptance in America: God Loves (Almost) Everyone

Description: Christianity and the Limits of Minority Acceptance explores the ways Christian women in college make sense of bisexual, transgender, polyamorous, and atheist others. Specifically, it explores the ways they express tolerance for some sexual groups, such as lesbian and gay people, while maintaining condemnation of other sexual, gendered, or religious groups. In so doing, […]

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‘This Incredible Monster Was Always in the Way’: The Moral Career of a Sexual Sinner in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

 Citation: Sumerau, Jason, Ryan Cragun, and Harry Barbee. 2018. “‘This Incredible Monster Was Always in the Way’: The Moral Career of a Sexual Sinner in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.” The Qualitative Report 23(3):662–76. You can download this article here.

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‘Oh My God, I Sound Like a Horrible Person’: Contemporary Christians and the Conditional Acceptance of Sexual and Gender Diversity

Citation: Sumerau, J. E., Eric Anthony Grollman, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2018. “‘Oh My God, I Sound Like a Horrible Person’: Generic Processes in the Conditional Acceptance of Sexual and Gender Diversity.” Symbolic Interaction 41(1):62–82. This article can be downloaded here.

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Losing Manhood Like a Man: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Examination of Masculinities and the Experience of a Vasectomy

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. and J. E. Sumerau. 2017. “Losing Manhood Like a Man: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Examination of Masculinities and the Experience of a Vasectomy.” Men and Masculinities 20(1):98–116. This article can be downloaded here.

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