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.
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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. (online before print). “”I Don’t Think It Ought To Be Blasphemy: Transing God(s) and Postlife Gender.” Social Compass. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00377686231176355. The article can be downloaded here.
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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: 10.1525/nr.2023.26.3.7. This article is available for download here.
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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.
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Incorporating Transgender Experience Toward a More Inclusive Gender Lens in the Sociology of Religion
Citation: Sumerau, J. E., Lain A. B. Mathers, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2018. “Incorporating Transgender Experience Toward a More Inclusive Gender Lens in the Sociology of Religion.” Sociology of Religion 79(4):425–48. You can download this article here.
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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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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. This article can be downloaded here.
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‘Men Never Cry’: Teaching Mormon Manhood in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Citation: Sumerau, J. E., Ryan T. Cragun, and Trina Smith. 2017. “‘Men Never Cry’: Teaching Mormon Manhood in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.” Sociological Focus 50(3):213–27. This article can be downloaded here.
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