Other publications – Ryan T. Cragun

Nones and Dones: Religious Exiting in Sociological Perspective

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on Jan 31, 2026

Citation:Gull, Bethany, Jesse M. Smith, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2025. “Nones and Dones: Religious Exiting in Sociological Perspective.” Pp. 35–62 in Culturally Responsive Mental Health Practices with Nonreligious Clients, edited by D. Abbott. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. This book chapter can be viewed here. The book can be purchased here.

The Rise of the Religiously Unaffiliated

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on Jan 31, 2026

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., and Dena Abbott. 2025. “The Rise of the Religiously Unaffiliated.” Pp. 19–33 in Culturally Responsive Mental Health Practices with Nonreligious Clients, edited by D. Abbott. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.This chapter can be viewed here. The book can be purchased here.

From Religious to Nonreligious/Areligious

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on May 08, 2024

Citation:Gull, Bethany, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2024. “From Religious to Nonreligious/Areligious.” Pp. 522–36 in The Routledge International Handbook of Changes in Human Perceptions and Behaviors, edited by K. Taku and T. K. Shackelford. New York: Routledge. This chapter can be downloaded here.

Religiosity and Happiness: Much Ado About Nothing

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on Apr 26, 2022

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., and David Speed. 2022. “Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing.” Pp. 167–91 in Religious and Secular Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing, Routledge Studies in Religion, edited by S. Sugirtharajah. London: Routledge. This book chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using Easy Diffusion v2.5.48)

Non-Traditional Families

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on Jul 18, 2021

Citation: Cragun, Ryan T., and Giuseppina Valle Holway. 2020. “Non-Traditional Families.” Pp. 350–63 in Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender, edited by A. Hoyt and T. G. Petrey. New York, N.Y.: Routledge. This book chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Secularity and Nonreligion

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on Jun 22, 2021

Citation: Smith, Jesse M., and Ryan T. Cragun. 2021. “Secularity and Nonreligion.” in Bloomsbury Religion in North America, edited by J. M. Smith and R. T. Cragun. London: Bloomsbury Academic. This chapter can be downloaded here.

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 […]

We Do Not Think It Means What They Think It Means: A Response to Thunström et al

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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.