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. doi: https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2018.3264. 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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Agnostic, Atheistic, and Nonreligious Orientations
Citation: Hwang, Karen and Ryan T. Cragun. 2017. “Agnostic, Atheistic, and Non-Religion Orientations.” Pp. 309–33 in Better Health Through Spiritual Practices: A Guide to Religious Behaviors and Practices that Benefit Mind and Body, edited by D. VonDras. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. You can download this book chapter here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)
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Organized Secularism in the United States: New Directions in Research
Description: There has been a dramatic increase in the percentage of the US population that is not religious. However, there is, to date, very little research on the social movement that is organizing to serve the needs of and advocate for the nonreligious in the US. This is a book about the rise and structure […]
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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. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.326. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)
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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. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X15612516. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)
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No One Expects a Transgender Jew: Religious, Sexual and Gendered Intersections in the Evaluation of Religious and Nonreligious Others
Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., and J. E. Sumerau. 2017. “No One Expects a Transgender Jew: Religious, Sexual and Gendered Intersections in the Evaluation of Religious and Nonreligious Others.” Secularism and Nonreligion 6(0):1–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/snr.82. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)
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