Mormons Are No Longer a Majority in Utah: Causes, Consequences, and Implications for the Sociology of Religion

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., Bethany Gull, and Rick Phillips. 2023. “Mormons Are No Longer a Majority in Utah: Causes, Consequences, and Implications for the Sociology of Religion.” Journal of Religion and Demography 10(1–2):162–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/2589742x-bja10019. You can download the manuscript here.

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Not Before Jesus Comes, If Ever: Mormon Views on When Women Will Receive the Priesthood

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., Rick Phillips, and Michael Nielsen. 2023. “Not Before Jesus Comes, If Ever: Mormon Views on When Women Will Receive the Priesthood.” Journal of the Mormon Social Science Association 2(1):35–55. doi: https://doi.org/10.54587/JMSSA.0202. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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“I Don’t Think It Ought To Be Blasphemy: Transing God(s) and Postlife Gender

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., and Bethany Gull. 2023. “I Don’t Think It Ought to Be Blasphemy: Transing God(s) and Post-Life Gender.” Social Compass 70(2):187–206. doi: 10.1177/00377686231176355. The article can be downloaded here. (Image generated by DALL-E 3.)

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Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society

Demonstrates definitively that the secularization thesis is correct, and religion is losing its grip on societies worldwide In the decades since its introduction, secularization theory has been subjected to doubt and criticism from a number of leading scholars, who have variously claimed that it is wrong, flawed, or incomplete. In Beyond Doubt, Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil […]

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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: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.26.3.7. This article is available for download here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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An Examination of Attitudes Toward Bisexual People at the Intersections of Gender and Race/Ethnicity

Citation:Feinstein, Brian A., Isabel Benjamin, Kate D. Dorrell, Sydni E. Foley, Helena S. Blumenau, Ryan T. Cragun, and Eric Julian D. Manalastas. 2022. “An Examination of Attitudes Toward Bisexual People at the Intersections of Gender and Race/Ethnicity.” Journal of Bisexuality 22(4):463–84. doi: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/cookieAbsent. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Does Interfaith Programming on College Campuses Influence Attitudes Toward Religious Minorities?: A Case Study

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. 2022. “Does Interfaith Programming on College Campuses Influence Attitudes Toward Religious Minorities?: A Case Study.” Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion 32:238–61. This article can be downloaded here. (Image created by Easy Diffusion v2.5.48.)

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Religiosity and Happiness: Much Ado About Nothing

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)

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