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. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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A Socioevolutionary Approach to Religious Change

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., and J. E. Sumerau. 2020. “A Socioevolutionary Approach to Religious Change.” Pp. 1–28 in Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion, edited by T. K. Shackelford and J. R. Liddle. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. This chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Alternative Christianities: Mormons, Seventh-day Adventists, and Jehovah’s Witnesses

Citation:Lawson, Ronald, Kenneth Xydias, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2020. “Alternative Christianities: Mormons, Seventh-Day Adventists, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.” Pp. 411–33 in The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity, edited by D. T. Orique, S. Fitzpatrick-Behrens, and V. Garrard. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. This chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Religious Traditions in Politics: Latter-day Saints

Citation: Phillips, Rick, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2020. “Religious Traditions in Politics: Latter-Day Saints.” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, edited by P. A. Djupe and M. J. Rozell. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. This book chapter is available here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Non-Religion and Atheism

Citation:Schaffner, Caleb, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2020. “Non-Religion and Atheism.” Pp. 242–52 in Handbook of Leaving Religion, edited by D. Enstedt, G. Larsson, and T. T. Mantsinen. Leiden: Brill. This chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Religion, Sociology Of

Citation: Cragun, Ryan T. 2018. “Religion, Sociology Of.” Pp. 250–53 in Core Concepts in Sociology, edited by J. M. Ryan. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. This chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Finding Humanists in Survey Data

Citation: Cragun, Ryan T. 2017. “Finding Humanists in Survey Data.” Free Inquiry, 37(5):54–57. You can download this article here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Inside The Minds and Movement of America’s Nonbelievers: Organizational Functions, (Non)Participation, and Attitudes Toward Religion

 Citation:Langston, Joseph A., Joseph H. Hammer, Ryan T. Cragun, and Mary Ellen Sikes. 2017. “Inside The Minds and Movement of America’s Nonbelievers: Organizational Functions, (Non)Participation, and Attitudes Toward Religion.” Pp. 191–219 in Organized Secularism in the United States, Religion and Its Others: Studies in Religion, Nonreligion, and Secularity, edited by R. T. Cragun, C. […]

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