The Demography of Exiting, Retention, and Conversion among Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Utah
Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., Bethany Gull, Michael Nielsen, Rick Phillips, and Jesse M. Smith. 2026. “The Demography of Exiting, Retention, and Conversion among Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Utah.” Secular Studies 8(1):1–32. doi:https://doi.org/10.1163/25892525-bja10091.This article is available here.
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“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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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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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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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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Non-Traditional Families
Citation: Cragun, Ryan T., and Giuseppina Valle Holway. 2020. “Non-Traditional Families.” Pp. 350–63 in Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender, edited by A. Hoyt and T. G. Petrey. New York, N.Y.: Routledge. This book chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)
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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. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)
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