nonreligion – Ryan T. Cragun

Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society

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on Apr 23, 2023

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 […]

Outcast Women: Gender and Authenticity in Ex-Mormon Women’s Disaffiliation Narratives

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on Feb 06, 2023

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.

Does Interfaith Programming on College Campuses Influence Attitudes Toward Religious Minorities?: A Case Study

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on Apr 29, 2022

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.)

Religiosity and Happiness: Much Ado About Nothing

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on Apr 26, 2022

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., and David Speed. 2022. “Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing.” Pp. 167–91 in Religious and Secular Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing, Routledge Studies in Religion, edited by S. Sugirtharajah. London: Routledge. This book chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using Easy Diffusion v2.5.48)

chart showing growing interest in nonreligious in academic journals

Secularity and Nonreligion

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on Jun 22, 2021

Citation: Smith, Jesse M., and Ryan T. Cragun. 2021. “Secularity and Nonreligion.” in Bloomsbury Religion in North America, edited by J. M. Smith and R. T. Cragun. London: Bloomsbury Academic. This chapter can be downloaded here.

InCREDulity in Artificial Societies

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on May 11, 2021

Citation:Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan, Wesley J. Wildman, Kevin McCaffree, Ryan T. Cragun, and F. LeRon Shults. 2021. “InCREDulity in Artificial Societies.” Pp. 81–94 in Advances in Social Simulation: Proceedings of the 15th Social Simulation Conference: 23-27 September 2019, Springer Proceedings in Complexity, edited by P. Ahrweiler and M. Neumann. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This book […]

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Nothing Is Not Something: On Replacing Nonreligion with Identities

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on Apr 29, 2021

Citation: Cragun, Ryan T., and Kevin J. McCaffree. 2021. “Nothing Is Not Something: On Replacing Nonreligion with Identities.” Secular Studies 3(1):7–26. doi: 10.1163/25892525-bja10017. This article can be downloaded here.

Religious Exiting and Social Networks: Computer Simulations of Religious/Secular Pluralism

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on Mar 12, 2021

Citation: Cragun, Ryan, Kevin McCaffree, Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, Wesley Wildman, and F. LeRon Shults. 2021. “Religious Exiting and Social Networks: Computer Simulations of Religious/Secular Pluralism.” Secularism and Nonreligion 10(1):2. doi: 10.5334/snr.129. This article can be downloaded here.