I Think Some People Need Religion: The Social Construction of Nonreligious Moral Identities

Citation:Sumerau, J. E., and Ryan T. Cragun. 2016. “‘I Think Some People Need Religion’: The Social Construction of Nonreligious Moral Identities.” Sociology of Religion 77(4):386–407. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srw031. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Defining That Which is “Other to” Religion: Secularism, Humanism, Atheism, Freethought, etc.

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. 2016. “Defining That Which is ‘Other to’ Religion: Secularism, Humanism, Atheism, Freethought, Etc.” Pp. 1–16 in Religion: Beyond Religion, Macmillan Reference USA, edited by P. Zuckerman. New York City: MacMillan Publishing Company. This book chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Sociology of Nonreligion and Atheism

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. 2016. “Sociology of Nonreligion and Atheism.” Pp. 301–20 in Handbook of Religion and Society, edited by D. Yamane. Switzerland: Springer. You can download this book chapter here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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“I Found God in The Glory Hole”: The Moral Career of a Gay Christian

Citation:Sumerau, J. E., Ryan T. Cragun, and Lain A. B. Mathers. 2016. “‘I Found God in The Glory Hole’: The Moral Career of a Gay Christian.” Sociological Inquiry 86(4):618–40. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12134. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Do Religiosity and Spirituality Really Matter for Social, Mental, and Physical Health?: A Tale of Two Samples

Citation:Cragun, Deborah, Ryan T. Cragun, Brian Nathan, J. E. Sumerau, and Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski. 2016. “Do Religiosity and Spirituality Really Matter for Social, Mental, and Physical Health?: A Tale of Two Samples.” Sociological Spectrum 36(6):359–77. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2016.1198949. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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‘Can’t Put My Finger on It’: A Research Report on the Non-Existence and Meaninglessness of Sin

Citation: Sumerau, J. E., Lain A. B. Mathers, and Ryan Cragun. 2016. “‘Can’t Put My Finger on It’: A Research Report on the Non-Existence and Meaninglessness of Sin.” The Qualitative Report 21(6):1132–44. doi: https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2016.2385. You can download this article here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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“A Mormon Just Believes”: And So Do Lots of Other People

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. 2016. “‘A Mormon Just Believes’: And So Do Lots of Other People.” Pp. 29–40 in Singing and Dancing to The Book of Mormon: Critical Essays on the Broadway Musical, edited by M. E. Shaw and H. Welker. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. This book chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using […]

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Does It Matter Which Way We Go?

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. 2016. “Does It Matter Which Way We Go?” Free Inquiry, 33–37. You can download this article here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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