Just received the author copies for my book Is Faith Feminine? What Americans Really Think About Gender and Religion global.oup.com/academic/pro...

My upcoming monograph with Bloomsbury is available to pre-order! For anyone interested in religion, non-religion, belief, and later life. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/lived-exp...

Lived Experiences of Non-Believing Older Adults

This book investigates the lived experiences of non-believing older adults, showing how their views and identities are deeply bound up in social relationships a…

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Register now for the 2026 NSRN Annual Lecture featuring Dena M. Abbott Nonreligious Health in a Christian-Normative Nation: Intersectionality, Power, and the Case for Culturally-Responsive Psychotherapy Register here: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @thensrn.bsky.social

Excited to see this out! We find spiritual states - like spiritual awareness and states during prayer are tied to less depressive symptoms than rel. traits across models onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Wonderful to work with @evanstewart.bsky.social @jacquifrost.bsky.social and Brad Wright.

Protecting Mental Health Through Spiritual Awareness and Prayer: Insights From Robustness Testing

Prior research finds that different kinds of religious engagement, including beliefs, practices, and affinities, are associated with lower rates of depressive symptoms. As rates of depression in the ...

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IT'S ALIVE! Brainstorming, discussing, writing, and re-writing this piece on the "unbundling" of American religion with @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, @jlkucinskas.bsky.social, and @bsteens.bsky.social was the most enjoyable part of the process, but it's gratifying to see it officially "out" in ASR.

Religion Unbundled: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Paradigm for the Sociology of American Religion - Ruth Braunstein, Jaime Kucinskas, Brian Steensland, Daniel Winchester, 2026

Much recent sociological work on religion in the United States is written outside the field’s two established paradigms: secularization theory and the 1990s “re...

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RC22 – Sociology of Religion warmly invites colleagues & scholars interested in the sociology of religion to submit session proposals for the XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology in Gwangju, Korea, July 4–10, 2027. The Call for Sessions is open til June 25 2026: www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferenc...

@brynmawrcollege.bsky.social invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow or scholar with expertise in contemporary American religion, based in Boston.The Fellow will partner with President Wendy Cadge & research collaborators nationally. brynmawr.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Postdoctoral Fellow (Boston, MA)

Position Title: Postdoctoral Fellow (Boston, MA) Bryn Mawr College: President's Office Location: Bryn Mawr College Campus Job Description: Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a one-year Postdoc...

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2-yr Postdoc: Indiana University, Bloomington, Center for Religion and the Human Deadline: 3/30 The postdoctoral scholar will serve as managing editor for the project "American Religion in 100 Objects," pursue their own research and teach one course per year. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32226

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

Our new study takes a close look at religion among young adults. It shows that young adults in the U.S. today 1) Are less religious than older people 2) Are less religious than young people were a decade ago 3) Have not become more religious in recent years pewrsr.ch/4pKHIC7

We're excited to announce the publication of Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion (co-edited by Lori Beaman, Ryan Cragun, and Douglas Ezzy), the first in our open-access book series with De Gruyter. Read here for free: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

We met up with @sssreligion.bsky.social recently in Minneapolis, Minnesota to ask "What Are You Working On?" Meet emerging scholars and familiar faces working on all things religious scholarship!

The 16th annual American Values Survey from @prri.org is live! I break down some of the findings here and encourage you to check out the full report. open.substack.com/pub/andrewwh...

How do religious Americans view the current state of the US?

Highlighting some findings from the 16th annual American Values Survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).

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UVA's Sociology department is looking to hire a tenured sociologist of religion at the Associate or Full level. Here is the advertisement. @sssreligion.bsky.social @asareligion.bsky.social Details here: apply.interfolio.com/173879

Science and religion folks: Check out this job posting at one of the most storied religious studies departments in the country--and share with our junior colleagues! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

ATTENTION PLEASE. Open access in current issue of @jssreligion.bsky.social "...[J]ust like the people we study, how scholars make meaning of religious worlds is dependent on what we learn to bring into focus and what we are taught to ignore. As such, we must learn to pay attention to attention."

Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention

A vast literature in the social scientific study of religion demonstrates that religious people are made not born. More specifically, researchers have shown that becoming religious is something that ...

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🧵 Who's the most informed about American politics? Very lefty seculars. My new FREE study @sfjournal.bsky.social finds atheists/agnostics, especially if they are politically sorted, score higher on knowledge of basic civics & current politics than other groups. 1/ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Looking for an easy way to follow other members of ASA Religion? Look no further than this Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/6cTpB24

The 2025 Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Conference will take place on Sept. 8-10 in Bratislava, Slovakia and virtually. It will feature presentations from leading researchers on nonreligion, including many NCF team members. For more details, see here: thensrn.org/2025-nonreli...

2025 Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Conference

Nonreligion and Secularity at Cultural Crossroads 8-10 September 2025 Venue: Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ilkovicova 6, Bratislava, Conference Book of Abstracts c…

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Some thoughts on criminology + writing crime fiction, featured today on my publisher's blog tulepublishing.com/2025/08/tule...

Tule Author Q&A: Christopher Seto talks creativity within constraints, his background in criminology, and shares insights on his upcoming Tule debut! - Tule Publishing Group

You’ve got a Ph.D. in criminology and teach at Purdue—what led you from the world of true crime to writing fiction? I read a lot of murder mysteries during my Ph.D. program. Especially classic whodunn...

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Had a great time presenting on the Nonreligions Across the Globe panel at #ISAForum25. I learned a lot about nonreligion in Pakistan and Japan!

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Fourth day of presentations at sessions by RC22 Sociology of religion. Thanks all for insightful and friendly Q&As. #ISAForum25 @isa-sociology.org

Read the newest article from NCF team members Dana Gaudette, Ryan T. Cragun, and Sivert Skålvoll Urstad, "A Disparity in Soul and Afterlife Beliefs: Exploring Cultural Perspectives and Predictors in Nordic Countries," Nordic Journal of Religion and Society www.scup.com/eprint/6JU5E...

How common is religious switching around the world? A new Pew Research Center post provides insights based on surveys conducted in 117 countries and territories. Some key findings: - Globally, 1 in 10 adults under 55 have switched religions since childhood. More here: pewrsr.ch/46dKGbF

I'm really excited about this paper! And it's open access! Check it out if you are interested in how variation in nonreligious experience predicts variation in health outcomes.

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Just published with @jacquifrost.bsky.social and Mahala Miller

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🌟New Article🌟 “Altruistic Atheists” by Phil Zuckerman & Sophie Myers What motivates altruistic behavior among people who don't believe in God, were raised in nonreligious families, and live in largely secular societies? 🔗 Read the answer here: doi.org/10.5334/snr.... #Altruism #Nonreligion

Heads-up, early career scholars in religious studies and secularism studies! The IRCPL at Columbia is accepting submissions for the Claremont Prize, awarded to unpublished book manuscripts on the study of religion. The prize includes publication with CUP. www.ircpl.columbia.edu/claremont-pr...

NEW: For years, my team has been working on a report about major changes in the global religious landscape between 2010 and 2020. Here's the full thing: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202... I'll post key findings below.

How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020

Christians remain the largest religious group, and Muslims grew the fastest from 2010 to 2020. Read how the global share of Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated changed, according ...

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📣Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow for a scholar with expertise in contemporary American religion. The Fellow will partner with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators nationally. Start date July, 2025. sssreligion.org/announcement...

Register now for @thensrn.bsky.social's annual virtual lecture, Growing Up Godless: Childhood and the Formation of Non-Religion, featuring @annastrhan.bsky.social and Rachael Shillitoe May 22, 12:30pm ET Register here: ut-ee.zoom.us/meeting/regi...