Sociology – Ryan T. Cragun

Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization

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on Sep 13, 2024

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 […]

The Beliefs of Nonbelievers: Exclusive Empiricism and Mortal Finitude Among Atheists and Agnostics

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on May 17, 2024

Citation:Blankholm, Joseph, Ryan Cragun, Abraham Hawley Suárez, and Shakir Stephen. 2024. “The Beliefs of Nonbelievers: Exclusive Empiricism and Mortal Finitude Among Atheists and Agnostics.” Sociology of Religion srae003. doi: 10.1093/socrel/srae003. You can download this article here.

“I Know That Goes Against My Religion”: Explaining Intrafaith Religious Dissent in Latter-Day Saint Views on Abortion and Religious Reflexivity

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on May 11, 2024

Citation:Gull, Bethany, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2024. “‘I Know That Goes Against My Religion’: Explaining Intrafaith Religious Dissent in Latter-Day Saint Views on Abortion with Religious Reflexivity.” Review of Religious Research 66(4):561–86. doi: 10.1177/0034673X241248462. This article can be downloaded here.

From Religious to Nonreligious/Areligious

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on May 08, 2024

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.

Mormons Are No Longer a Majority in Utah: Causes, Consequences, and Implications for the Sociology of Religion

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on Dec 26, 2023

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., Bethany Gull, and Rick Phillips. 2023. “Mormons Are No Longer a Majority in Utah: Causes, Consequences, and Implications for the Sociology of Religion.” Journal of Religion and Demography 10(1–2):162–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/2589742x-bja10019. You can download the manuscript here.

Not Before Jesus Comes, If Ever: Mormon Views on When Women Will Receive the Priesthood

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on Jun 03, 2023

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., Rick Phillips, and Michael Nielsen. 2023. “Not Before Jesus Comes, If Ever: Mormon Views on When Women Will Receive the Priesthood.” Journal of the Mormon Social Science Association 2(1):35–55. doi: https://doi.org/10.54587/JMSSA.0202. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

“I Don’t Think It Ought To Be Blasphemy: Transing God(s) and Postlife Gender

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on Jun 03, 2023

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., and Bethany Gull. 2023. “I Don’t Think It Ought to Be Blasphemy: Transing God(s) and Post-Life Gender.” Social Compass 70(2):187–206. doi: 10.1177/00377686231176355. The article can be downloaded here. (Image generated by DALL-E 3.)

Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society

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on Apr 23, 2023

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 […]