Silent Night

Lyrics: Silent night, Lowly night All is calm, all is rightStrong is the urging, parents and childCuddle infants, so tender and mildSleep in comforted peace, Sleep in comforted peace.Silent night, Lowly nightParents awake, through the nightBonds formed through trials of loveLullabies sung in the ears of.A human child is born, A human child is born.Silent […]

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God May Save Your Life, but You Have to Find Your Own Keys: Religious Attributions, Secular Attributions, and Religious Priming

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., and J. E. Sumerau. 2015. “God May Save Your Life, but You Have to Find Your Own Keys: Religious Attributions, Secular Attributions, and Religious Priming.” Archive for the Psychology of Religion 37(3):321–42. doi: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1163/15736121-12341307. You can download a copy of this article here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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The Mormon Gender Issues Survey: Research Summary

Citation:Beal, Brent D. et al. 2015. The Mormon Gender Issues Survey: Research Summary. The Mormon Gender Issues Survey Group. A downloadable copy of this report is available here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Increasing Sex Ratio Imbalance Among Utah Mormons: Sources and Implications

Citation: Phillips, Rick, Ryan T. Cragun, and Barry A. Kosmin. 2015. “Increasing Sex Ratio Imbalance Among Utah Mormons: Sources and Implications.” Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 11:1–27. You can download this article here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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From Sodomy to Sympathy: LDS Elites’ Discursive Construction of Homosexuality Over Time

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., J. E. Sumerau, and Emily Williams. 2015. “From Sodomy to Sympathy: LDS Elites’ Discursive Construction of Homosexuality Over Time.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 54(2):291–310. doi: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jssr.12180. You can download this article here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Contemporary Religion and the Cisgendering of Reality

Citation:Sumerau, J. E., Ryan T. Cragun, and Lain A. B. Mathers. 2016. “Contemporary Religion and the Cisgendering of Reality.” Social Currents 3(3):293–311. doi: . The article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Empiricism: Why I Left Mormonism

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. 2015. “Empiricism: Why I Left Mormonism.” The Human Prospect: A Neohumanist Perspective 4(3):54–62. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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The Mormon Gender Issues Survey: A Quantitative Analysis of U.S. Respondents

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. and Michael Nielsen. 2015. “The Mormon Gender Issues Survey: A Quantitative Analysis of U.S. Respondents.” Pp. 297–318 in Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Feminism, edited by G. Shepherd, L. F. Anderson, and G. Shepherd. Draper, UT: Greg Kofford Books. You can download this chapter here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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