“I Know That Goes Against My Religion”: Explaining Intrafaith Religious Dissent in Latter-Day Saint Views on Abortion and Religious Reflexivity
Citation:Gull, Bethany, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2024. “‘I Know That Goes Against My Religion’: Explaining Intrafaith Religious Dissent in Latter-Day Saint Views on Abortion with Religious Reflexivity.” Review of Religious Research 66(4):561–86. doi: 10.1177/0034673X241248462. This article can be downloaded here.
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From Religious to Nonreligious/Areligious
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.
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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: . This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)
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