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. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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

Citation:Speed, David, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2021. “Response to ‘Masturbation: Scientific Evidence and Islam’s View.’” Journal of Religion and Health 60:1668–71. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-018-0627-x. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Sunday Football or Church? A Case Study in Substitutes and Complements

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., John Stinespring, and Andrew Tillman. 2019. “Sunday Football or Church? A Case Study in Substitutes and Complements.” Review of Religious Research 61(2):169–87. doi: . You can read this article here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Incorporating Transgender Experience Toward a More Inclusive Gender Lens in the Sociology of Religion

Citation:Sumerau, J. E., Lain A. B. Mathers, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2018. “Incorporating Transgender Experience Toward a More Inclusive Gender Lens in the Sociology of Religion.” Sociology of Religion 79(4):425–48. doi: . You can download this article here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Religious/Secular Distance: How far apart are teenagers and their parents?

 Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., Joseph H. Hammer, Michael Nielsen, and Nicholas Autz. 2018. “Religious/Secular Distance: How Far Apart Are Teenagers and Their Parents?” Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 10(3):288–95. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000205. You can download this article here.

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‘This Incredible Monster Was Always in the Way’: The Moral Career of a Sexual Sinner in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

 Citation:Sumerau, Jason, Ryan Cragun, and Harry Barbee. 2018. “‘This Incredible Monster Was Always in the Way’: The Moral Career of a Sexual Sinner in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.” The Qualitative Report 23(3):662–76. doi: https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2018.3264. You can download this article here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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How to Defeat Religion in 10 Easy Steps

    Description: Do you want the greatest challenges of the day to be addressed with thoughtful, reality-based solutions rather than with cherry-picked quotations from scripture? Do you want to shrink religion—especially fundamentalist religion—to the point that it plays no noticeable role in American public life? Do you want right-wing religious leaders to be so […]

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Science and Religion

Citation: Cragun, Ryan T. 2015. “Science and Religion” edited by James Wright. International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences 172–75. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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