I Think Some People Need Religion: The Social Construction of Nonreligious Moral Identities

Citation:Sumerau, J. E., and Ryan T. Cragun. 2016. “‘I Think Some People Need Religion’: The Social Construction of Nonreligious Moral Identities.” Sociology of Religion 77(4):386–407. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srw031. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Defining That Which is “Other to” Religion: Secularism, Humanism, Atheism, Freethought, etc.

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. 2016. “Defining That Which is ‘Other to’ Religion: Secularism, Humanism, Atheism, Freethought, Etc.” Pp. 1–16 in Religion: Beyond Religion, Macmillan Reference USA, edited by P. Zuckerman. New York City: MacMillan Publishing Company. This book chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Sociology of Nonreligion and Atheism

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. 2016. “Sociology of Nonreligion and Atheism.” Pp. 301–20 in Handbook of Religion and Society, edited by D. Yamane. Switzerland: Springer. You can download this book chapter 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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Simple Markov Model for Estimating the Growth of Nonreligion in the United States

Citation:Stinespring, John and Ryan T. Cragun. 2015. “Simple Markov Model for Estimating the Growth of Nonreligion in the United States.” Science, Religion, and Culture 2(3):96–103. Science, Religion, and Culture is an open-access journal. You can download the article directly from their site. Or you can download it here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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