Journal Articles

Abortion

  • Analysis of the Relationship Between Religion, Abortion, and Assisted Reproductive Technology: Insights into Cross-national Public Opinion

  • Synthesizing the Global English-language Abortion Narrative: A Comparative Analysis of Media Discourse

  • The Political Ramifications of Judicial Institutions: Establishing a Link between Dobbs and Gender Disparities in the 2022 Midterms

  • Religion as a Micro and Macro Property: Investigating The Multilevel Relationship Between Religion and Abortion Attitudes Across the Globe

  • Understanding the Role of Religion in Shaping Cross-National and Domestic Attitudes and Interest in Abortion, Homosexuality, and Pornography Using Traditional and Google Search Data

  • Public Opinion about Abortion: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review of Research over the Last 15 Years

  • Understanding Americans’ Abortion Attitudes: The Role of the Local Religious Context

  • Understanding the Effects of Personal and School Religiosity on the Decision to Abort a Premarital Pregnancy

  • The Effects of Religious Contextual Norms, Structural Constraints, and Personal Religiosity for Abortion Decisions

  • Fetal Positions: Unraveling the Influence of Religion on Premarital Pregnancy Resolution

  • Dimensions and Clusters of Legal Abortion Attitudes A Cross-national Analysis of Diverse Nations

Same-sex Relationships

  • Cross-National Public Opinion about Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes across the Globe

  • Shifting Religious Influences on Attitudes Towards Same-Sex Behavior and Civil Liberties: A Multilevel Across-Time Analysis

  • Examining Public Opinion about LGBTQ-related Issues in the United States and across Multiple Nations

  • Effects of Geography on Mental Health Disparities on Sexual Minorities in New York City

  • Newspaper Presentations of Homosexuality across Nations: Examining Differences by Religion, Economic Development, and Democracy

  • Place Matters: Contextualizing the Roles of Religion and Race for Understanding Americans’ Attitudes about Homosexuality

  • Changing Attitudes toward Homosexuality in Taiwan, 1995-2012

  • Investigating Differences in How the News Media Views Homosexuality across Nations: An Analysis of the United States, South Africa, and Uganda

  • Explaining Attitudes about Homosexuality in Confucian and Non-Confucian Nations: Is There a ‘Cultural’ Influence?

  • Shaping Attitudes about Homosexuality: The Role of Religion and Cultural Context

Sex-related

  • The Effect of Personal Religiosity on Attitudes toward Abortion, Divorce, and Gender Equality: Does Cultural Context Make a Difference?

  • Religion and Sexual Behaviors: Understanding the Influence of Islamic Cultures and Religious Affiliation for Explaining Sex Outside of Marriage

  • Investigating the Role of Religion-Supported Secular Programs for Explaining Initiation into First Sex

  • Education and Risky Sex in Africa: Unraveling the Link between Women’s Education and Reproductive Health Behaviors in Kenya

  • Survivalism and Public Opinion on Criminality: A Cross-National Analysis of Prostitution

  • Socialization and Selection in the Link between Friends’ Religiosity and the Transition to Sexual Intercourse

  • Fetal Positions: Unraveling the Influence of Religion on Premarital Pregnancy Resolution. - Selected by Social Science Quarterly for public promotion

  • Cross-National Moral Beliefs: The Influence of National Religious Context

  • Friends’ Religiosity and First Sex

Crime and Political Violence

  • When and How Does Anti-Semitism Occur? The Different Trigger Mechanisms Associated with Different Types of Criminal and Non-Criminal Hate Incidents

  • Religion and Support for Political Violence among Christians and Muslims in Africa

  • Religion and Crime: A Systematic Review and Assessment of Next Steps

  • The Impact of the Boston Marathon Bombing on Public Willingness to Cooperate with Police

  • Religiosity and Reactions to Terrorism

  • Investigating the Applicability of Macro-Level Criminology Theory to Terrorism: A County-Level Analysis

  • The Relationship between Hate Groups and Far-Right Ideological Violence

  • Understanding Delinquency with Friendship Group Religious Context

  • Crime Volume and Law and Order Culture

  • Victim-Offender Overlap Among Incarcerated Youth in the United States: A Bivariate Probit Analysis Using National Data

  • Understanding Violence in Juvenile Correctional Facilities: A National Study of Victim-Offender Overlap in the United States

  • Victim-Offender Overlap Among Incarcerated Youth in the United States: A Bivariate Probit Analysis Using National Data

  • Neutralization and Violence in Gaza: How Jewish College Students in the U.S. and Israel Justify and Contest Military Engagement.” Socius:Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

Drugs and Alcohol

  • How and Why Have Attitudes about Cannabis Legalization Changed so Much?

  • Extracurricular Activities and Teens’ Alcohol Use: The Role of Religious and Secular Sponsorship

  • Religion and Initiation into Marijuana Use: The Deterring Role of Religious Friends

Religion and Theory

  • Divine Callings: Religious Sensemaking in the Organizational Founding Process

  • The Effect of Religion-Supported Programs on Health-Related Behaviors in Adolescence

  • Religion and Volunteering in Four Sub-Saharan African Countries

  • High-cost Religion, Religious Switching, and Health

  • It Takes Two: The Interplay of Individual and Group Theology on Social Embeddedness

  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Provision of Health-Related Programs among American Religious Congregations

  • Frankl, Bettelheim and the Camps

  • Religious Switching: Does Parents’ Education Matter?

  • Religious Regulation and the Courts: Documenting the Effects of Smith and RFRA

  • On Thanksgiving and Collective Memory: Constructing the American Tradition

Media and Big Data

  • Differences in Religious Framing of Muslims and Islam in American Media Coverage Before and After the Trump Campaign

  • Using Internet Derived Data to Measure Religion: Understanding How Google Can Provide Insight into Cross-National Religious Differences

  • Assessing Variation and Change in Newspaper Portrayals of Muslims: The influence of the Trump Election and Differences across the United States in Local and National Papers

  • Using Google and Twitter to Measure, Validate and Understand Views about Religion across Africa

Education

  • Assessing the Benefits of College Internships at a Hispanic Serving Institution

  • Online or In-Person? Examining College Decisions to Reopen during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Fall 2020

  • The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA): Online Research Data, Tools, and References