RPLP Publications

2024
The Conversation
 Thinking About Work As A Calling Can Be Meaningful, But There Can Be Unexpected Downsides As Well

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2024
Socius
 The Intersections among Race, Religion, and Science in Explaining Mental Health Conditions

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2024
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
 “Take It to the Lord”: Religion and Responses to Racial Discrimination in the Workplace

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2024
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
 How Christian Leaders Navigate Race After George Floyd's Murder: A Study of Unsettled Times

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2024
 Religion in a Changing Workplace

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2023
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
 The Connection between Perceived Workplace Discrimination and Viewing Work as a Spiritual Calling

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2023
Sociology of Religion
 Called to Work: Developing a Framework for Understanding Spiritual Orientations Towards Work

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2023
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
 The Association between Religious Discrimination and Health: Disaggregating by Types of Discrimination Experiences, Religious Tradition, and Forms of Health

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2023
Religions
 The Role of Region and Religious Tradition in Predicting Individuals’ Expressions of Faith in the Workplace

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2023
Review of Religious Research
 The Limits of Congregational Support for Working Women

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2023
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
 The Relationship between Workplace Status and Workplace Religious Expression

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2023
Studying Congregations
 COVID-19 Poses New Leadership Challenges

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2022
Socius
 How Religious Discrimination is Perceived in the Workplace: Expanding the View

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2022
Sociological Inquiry
 “God Sees No Color” So Why Should I? How White Christians Produce Divinized Colorblindness

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2022
Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion
 The Impact of Gender and Organizational Position on Faith-Work Integration

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2022
Social Problems
 Religion, Race, and Perceptions of Police Harassment

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2022
Social Forces
 Fear of Religious Hate Crime Victimization and the Residual Effects of Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

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2022
Social Forces
 Patterns of Perceived Hostility and Identity Concealment among Self-Identified Atheists

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2022
Ethnic and Racial Studies
 Seeing is Achieving: Religion, Embodiment, and Explanations of Racial Inequality in STEM

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2022
Zygon Journal of Religion & Science
 Science-Religion Boundaries in Indian Scientific Workplaces

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2021
Religions
 Navigating Religion Online: Jewish and Muslim Responses to Social Media

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2021
Journal of Business Ethics
 Is the Market Perceived to be Civilizing or Destructive? Scientists’ Universalism Values and Their Attitudes Towards Patents

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2021
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
 Between the Prophetic and Priestly: The Role of Black Pastoral Authority in Health and Science Promotion

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2021
Religions
 Where Would You Go? Race, Religion, and the Limits of Pastor Mental Health Care in Black and Latino Congregations

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2021
 Varieties of Atheism in Science

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2021
Sociology of Islam
 A Pilot Assessment of How Muslim Scientists Perceive Inclusion in the Scientific Workplace

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2021
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
 Publishing and Parenting in Academic Science: A Study of Different National Contexts

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2021
Public Understanding of Science
 Fertilizing Morality: How Religiosity and Orientations toward Science Shape the Morality, Immorality, and Amorality of Reproductive Technologies

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2021
Journal of Contemporary Religion
 Evangelicals, Evolution, and Inerrancy: A Comparative Study of Congregational Boundary Work

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2020
Religions
 Indian Scientists Definitions of Religion and Spirituality

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2020
Religion News Service
 How White Churches Can Work for Racial Justice

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2020
 Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: Eight Shared Values That Move Us Beyond Fear

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2020
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
 Diversifying the Social Scientific Study of Religion: The Next 70 Years

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2020
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
 Doing Gender and Doing Religion in Science: A Cross-National Examination

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2020
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
 Whither Whiteness and Religion?: Implications for Theology and the Study of Religion

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2020
Christianity Today
 Why Do Fewer Christian Women Work in Science?

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2020
Sociological Forum
 Polarized Scientists? Exploring Political Differences about Religion and Science among U.S. Biologists and Physicists

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2020
The Sociological Quarterly
 Alternative Spirituality among Global Scientists

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2020
Religion News Service
 Why Religious Congregations May Be Crucial to Halting the Spread of COVID-19

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2020
Ethnic and Racial Studies
 The Very Ivory Tower: Pathways Reproducing Racial-Ethnic Stratification in US Academic Science

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2020
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
 Individuals Experiences with Religious Hostility, Discrimination, and Violence: Findings from a New National Survey

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2020
Christianity Today
 It’s Hard to Close Black Churches amid COVID-19

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2020
Social Science Quarterly
 Determinants of Confidence in U.S. Institutions: Comparing Congress and Corporations

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2020
Religions
 A Nationally Representative Survey of Faith and Work: Demographic Subgroup Differences around Calling and Conflict

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2020
Religions
 From Secular to Sacred: Bringing Work to Church

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2019
 Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion

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2019
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
 Immigrant Identities and the Shaping of a Racialized American Self

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2019
Sociological Perspectives
 Selection Versus Socialization? Interrogating the Sources of Secularity in Global Science

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2019
Religions
 Can Religiosity Be Explained by Brain Wiring? An Analysis of US Adults Opinions

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2019
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
 A Way Forward for Sociological Research on Science and Religion: A Review and a Riff

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2019
 Mercenaries and Missionaries: Capitalism and Catholicism in the Global South

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2019
Journal of Business Ethics
 The Moral Limits of the Market: Science Commercialization and Religious Traditions

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2018
Fuller Magazine
 A Groundbreaking Study of Faith and Work in the United States

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2018
Sociology of Religion
 Naturally Ambivalent: Religion’s Role in Shaping Environmental Action

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2018
Review of Religious Research
 Heaven and Health: How Black, Latino, and Korean Christians View the Relationship between Faith and Health

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2018
Public Understanding of Science
 Scientists and Religious Leaders Compete for Cultural Authority of Science

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2018
Sociological Inquiry
 Structural Strain in Science: Organizational Context, Career Stage, Discipline, and Role Composition

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2018
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
 Perceptions of Religious Discrimination Among U.S. Scientists

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2018
 Religion vs. Science: What Religious People Really Think

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2018
Religions
 “A Web of Subversive Friends”: New Monasticism in the United States and South Africa

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2018
Marginalia Review of Books
 Gay Rights Comes to Africa?

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2018
Du Bois Review
 Black Protestant Views of Science

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2018
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
 The Religiosity of Academic Scientists in the United Kingdom: Assessing the Role of Discipline and Department Status

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2018
Social Currents
 Religious Tradition and Workplace Religious Discrimination: The Moderating Effects of Regional Context

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2018
Review of Religious Research
 Whose Authority? Perceptions of Science Education in Black and Latino Churches

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2018
Public Understanding of Science
 Responding to Richard: Celebrity and Misrepresentation of Science

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2017
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
 Producing Sacredness and Defending Secularity: Faith in the Workplace of Taiwanese Scientists

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2017
Christianity Today
 The March for Science Isnt Anti-Religion. Most Scientists Arent Either.

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2017
Sociological Forum
 Moral Schemas in Articulation and Intuition: How Religious People Evaluate Human Reproductive Genetic Technologies

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2017
The Journal of Higher Education
 How Public Confidence in Higher Education Varies by Social Context

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2017
Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences
 A Catholic Science? Italian Scientists Construct Religious Identity During Religious Shifts

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2017
Environment and Behavior
 Examining Links Between Religion, Evolution Views and Climate-Change Skepticism

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2017
Review of Religious Research
 Examining the Effects of Exposure to Religion in the Workplace on Perceptions of Religious Discrimination

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2017
Science and Engineering Ethics
 A Gendered Approach to Science Ethics for US and UK Physicists

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2017
Journal of Career Development
 Recommending a Child Enter a STEM Career: The Role of Religion

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2017
Public Understanding of Science
 The Influence of Science Popularizers on the Public’s View of Religion and Science: An Experimental Assessment

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2017
Journal of Contemporary China
 The Double-Edged Sword: Guanxi and Science Ethics in Academic Physics in the People’s Republic of China

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2016
Science and Engineering Ethics
 Ethical Ambiguity in Science

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2016
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
 Religion among Scientists in International Context: A New Study of Scientists in Eight Regions

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2016
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
 Narrating and Navigating Authorities: Understandings of the Bible and Science Among Evangelical and Mainline Protestants

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2016
Social Science Quarterly
 Conservative Protestantism and Anti-Evolution Curricular Challenges Across States

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2016
Journal of Religion & Society
 Boundary Formation and Cultural Construction: Religion and Ethnicity for Chinese and Indian Immigrant Converts in the U.S.

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2016
Social Problems
 Gossip as Social Control?: Informal Sanctions on Ethical Violations in Scientific Workplaces

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2016
Environmental Politics
 Political Conservatism, Religion and Environmental Consumption in the United States

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2016
Social Compass
 Rejecting the Conflict Narrative: American Jewish and Muslim Views on Science and Religion

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2015
Review of Religious Research
 Perceptions of Science Education Among African American and White Evangelicals: A Texas Case Study

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2015
Sociological Science
 Individual Religiosity and Orientation towards Science: Reformulating Relationships

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2015
The Immanent Frame
 Keeping Sex Sexy: American Evangelicalism and the Problem of Sexuality

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2014
The Immanent Frame
 Jesus, Religion, and Revolution in the South African Elections

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2014
Review of Religious Research
 How Evangelicals from Two Churches in the American Southwest Frame Their Relationship with the Environment

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2014
The Immanent Frame
 Mourning a Political Saint in Johannesburg

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2013
Review of Religious Research
 Rethinking the Connections between Religion and Civic Life for Immigrants: The Case of the Chinese Diaspora

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2013
Sociology of Religion
 Motivating Civic Engagement: In-Group versus Out-Group Service Orientations among Mexican Americans in Religious and Nonreligious Organizations

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2011
Sociology of Religion
 Scientists and Spirituality

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2011
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
 Science and Religion in (Global) Public Life: A Sociological Perspective

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2011
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
 Scientists Negotiate Boundaries Between Religion and Science

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2011
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
 Atheists and Agnostics Negotiate Religion and Family

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