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Complicating Marginalisation: The Case of Mormon and Nonreligious College Students in a Predominantly Mormon Context

 Citation: Abunuwara, Kim, Ryan T. Cragun, and J. E. Sumerau. 2018. “Complicating Marginalisation: The Case of Mormon and Nonreligious College Students in a Predominantly Mormon Context.” Journal of Beliefs & Values 39(3):317–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2018.1441252. You can download this article here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Agnostic, Atheistic, and Nonreligious Orientations

Citation: Hwang, Karen and Ryan T. Cragun. 2017. “Agnostic, Atheistic, and Non-Religion Orientations.” Pp. 309–33 in Better Health Through Spiritual Practices:  A Guide to Religious Behaviors and Practices that Benefit Mind and Body, edited by D. VonDras. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. You can download this book chapter here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Organized Secularism in the United States: New Directions in Research

Description: There has been a dramatic increase in the percentage of the US population that is not religious. However, there is, to date, very little research on the social movement that is organizing to serve the needs of and advocate for the nonreligious in the US. This is a book about the rise and structure […]

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No One Expects a Transgender Jew: Religious, Sexual and Gendered Intersections in the Evaluation of Religious and Nonreligious Others

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., and J. E. Sumerau. 2017. “No One Expects a Transgender Jew: Religious, Sexual and Gendered Intersections in the Evaluation of Religious and Nonreligious Others.” Secularism and Nonreligion 6(0):1–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/snr.82. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Perceived Marginalization, Educational Contexts, and (Non)Religious Educational Experience

Citation: Cragun, Ryan T., Victoria L. Blyde, J. E. Sumerau, Marcus Mann, and Joseph H. Hammer. 2016. “Perceived Marginalization, Educational Contexts, and (Non)Religious Educational Experience.” Journal of College and Character 17(4):241–54. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/2194587X.2016.1230758. You can download this article here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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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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