“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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Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society

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 […]

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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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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.

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Religiosity and Happiness: Much Ado About Nothing

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.

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With a little help from my (Canadian) friends: Health differences between minimal and maximal religiosity/spirituality are partially mediated by social support

Citation:Speed, David, Caitlin Barry, and Ryan Cragun. 2020. “With a Little Help from My (Canadian) Friends: Health Differences between Minimal and Maximal Religiosity/Spirituality Are Partially Mediated by Social Support.” Social Science & Medicine 265:1–9. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113387. This article can be downloaded here.

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A Socioevolutionary Approach to Religious Change

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., and J. E. Sumerau. 2020. “A Socioevolutionary Approach to Religious Change.” Pp. 1–28 in Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion, edited by T. K. Shackelford and J. R. Liddle. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. This chapter can be downloaded here.

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Response to “Masturbation: Scientific Evidence and Islam’s View”

Citation:Speed, David, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2018. “Response to ‘Masturbation: Scientific Evidence and Islam’s View.’” Journal of Religion and Health. DOI: 10.1007/s10943-018-0627-x This article can be downloaded here.

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