A Disparity in Soul and Afterlife Beliefs: Exploring Cultural Perspectives and Predictors in Nordic Countries
[NOTE: I typically embed my papers here, but the journal specifically requested that I not do so and link to their site instead.] Citation:Gaudette, Dana, Ryan T. Cragun, and Sivert Skålvoll Urstad. 2025. “A Disparity in Soul and Afterlife Beliefs: Exploring Cultural Perspectives and Predictors in Nordic Countries.” Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 38(1):17–34. […]
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Cross-cultural adaptation and search for evidence of validity of the brazilian version of the nonreligious-nonspiritual scale (NRNSS)
Citation:Gadelha-Weyne, André, Ícaro Moreira Costa, Daniel Foschetti Gontijo, Tauily Claussen D´Escragnolle Taunay, and Ryan Cragun. 2025. “Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Search for Evidence of Validity of the Brazilian Version of the Nonreligious-Nonspiritual Scale (NRNSS).” Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 38(1):18. doi:10.1186/s41155-025-00350-5. This paper is available here or here.
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Hail Satan (or Not): An Exploratory Examination of the Seven Tenets of The Satanic Temple
Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. 2025. “Hail Satan (or Not): An Exploratory Examination of the Seven Tenets of The Satanic Temple.” Journal of Contemporary Religion 40(1):147–63. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2025.2470022. This article can be downloaded here or here.
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Uskonnontutkija puutarhassa: Espanjansiruetana, elämänasennot ja uusintava ulossulkemisen etiikka
Citation:Salonen, Anna Sofia, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2025. “Uskonnontutkija puutarhassa: Espanjansiruetana, elämänasennot ja uusintava ulossulkemisen etiikka.” TRACE ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies 11:30–55. doi: 10.23984/fjhas.145655.Translation of the title: “The Scholar of Religion in the Garden: The Spanish Slug, Lifestances, and the Reproductive Ethics of Exclusion” You can download this article here or here.
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The Push Away From Religion and the Pull Towards Secularity
Citation:Smith, Jesse M., and Ryan T. Cragun. 2024. “The Push Away From Religion and the Pull Towards Secularity.” Australian Journal of Law and Religion 5:92–96. doi: https://doi.org/10.55803/O965S. This article can be downloaded here or here.
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Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization
Examines why so many are leaving religion, and what that means for American society One of the largest changes in American culture over the last fifty years has been the increase in people exiting religion. Goodbye Religion explores why there has been such an upswing among those who identify as nonreligious, and what the societal […]
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The Beliefs of Nonbelievers: Exclusive Empiricism and Mortal Finitude Among Atheists and Agnostics
Citation:Blankholm, Joseph, Ryan Cragun, Abraham Hawley Suárez, and Shakir Stephen. 2025. “The Beliefs of Nonbelievers: Exclusive Empiricism and Mortal Finitude Among Atheists and Agnostics.” Sociology of Religion 86(1):27–49. doi: 10.1093/socrel/srae003. You can download this article here.
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From Religious to Nonreligious/Areligious
Citation:Gull, Bethany, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2024. “From Religious to Nonreligious/Areligious.” Pp. 522–36 in The Routledge International Handbook of Changes in Human Perceptions and Behaviors, edited by K. Taku and T. K. Shackelford. New York: Routledge. This chapter can be downloaded here.
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