Below are lists of my articles and book chapters, organized by topic. Email me (bakerjo@etsu.edu) if you like full text, final versions of any article or chapter.
Politics and Law
Immigration, Presidential Politics, and Partisan Polarization Among the American Public, 1992 - 2018. Sociological Spectrum 41(4): 287-303.
Make American Christian Again: Christian Nationalism and Voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election. Sociology of Religion 79(2): 147-171.
Keep America Christian (and White): Christian Nationalism, Fear of Ethnoracial Outsiders, and Intention to Vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential Election. Sociology of Religion 81(3): 272-293.
Is the Religious Left Resurgent? Sociology of Religion 81(2): 131-141.
Economy "Versus" Environment: The Influence of Economic Ideology and Political Identity on Perceived Threat of Eco-Catastrophe. The Sociological Quarterly 55(2): 341-365.
Theism, Secularism, and Sex Education in the United States. Sexuality Research and Social Policy 12(3): 236-247.
Flowing Across with Demonic Hate: Belief in Supernatural Evil and Support for Stricter Immigration Policies. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 61(2): 408-432.
Deviance and Penology
Institutional Anomie, Religious Ecologies, and Violence in American Communities. Social Forces.
God's Penology: Belief in a Masculine God Predicts Support for Harsh Criminal Punishment and Militarism. Punishment & Society 22(2): 135-160.
Desecration, Moral Boundaries, and the Movement of Law: The Case of Westboro Baptist Church.
Deviant Behavior 36(1): 42-67.
The Expression of Low Self-Control as Problematic Drinking in Adolescents: An Integrated Control Perspective. Journal of Criminal Justice 38(3): 237-244.
Hell to Pay: Religion and Punitive Ideology among the American Public. Punishment & Society 18(2): 151-176.
Race, Xenophobia, and Punitiveness Among the American Public. Sociological Quarterly 59(3): 363-383.
Religiosity
The Flesh and The Devil: Belief in Religious Evil and Views of Sexual Morality. Review of Religious Research 62(1): 133-151.
An Investigation of the Sociological Patterns of Prayer Frequency and Content. Sociology of Religion 69(2):165-185.
What Would Jesus Buy? American Consumption of Religious and Spiritual Material Goods. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 46(4): 501-518.
Angelic Belief as American Folk Religion. Sociological Forum 26(3): 623-643.
Who Believes in Religious Evil? An Investigation of Sociological Patterns of Belief in Satan, Hell, and Demons. Review of Religious Research 50(2): 206-220.
The Variety of Religious Experiences. Review of Religious Research 51(1): 39-54.
Science and Religion
Public Perceptions of Incompatibility between "Science and Religion." Public Understanding of Science 21(3): 340-354 .
Acceptance of Evolution and Support for Teaching Creationism in Public Schools
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 52(1): 216-228.
Homosexuality, Religion, and Science: Moral Authority and the Persistence of Negative Attitudes. Sociological Inquiry 82(4): 487-509.
Acceptance of Evolution Among American Mormons. Journal of Contemporary Religion 33(1): 123-134.
Crusading for Moral Authority: Christian Nationalism and Opposition to Science. Sociological Forum 35(3): 587-607.
Ignorance or Culture War? Christian Nationalism and Scientific Illiteracy. Public Understanding of Science 30(8): 930-946.
Religious Group Dynamics
Whose Moral Community? Religiosity, Secularity, and Self-rated Health across Communal Religious Contexts. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 59(2): 185-199.
Social Sources of the Spirit: Connecting Rational Choice and Interactive Ritual Theories in the Study of Religion. Sociology of Religion 71(4): 432-456.
Structural and Cultural Sources of Community in American Congregations. Social Science Research 45: 1-17.
Christian Sectarianism, Fundamentalism, and Extremism. Pp. 187–198 in Routledge Handbook of Deviance , edited by Stephen Brown and Ophir Sefiha. New York: Routledge.
Secularism
The Nones: Social Characteristics of the Religiously Unaffiliated. Social Forces 87(3): 1251-1264.
None Too Simple: Examining Issues of Religious Nonbelief and Nonbelonging in the United States. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48(4): 719-733.
Perceptions of Science and American Secularism. Sociological Perspectives 55(1): 167-188.
Atheism, Agnosticism, and Irreligion. Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Gendering (Non)Religion: Politics, Education, and Gender Gaps in Secularity in the United States. Social Forces 94(4): 1623-1645.
Secularity, Religiosity, and Health: Physical and Mental Health Differences Between Atheists, Agnostics, and Nonaffiliated Theists Compared to Religiously Affiliated Individuals. Social Science Research 75: 44-57.
Health Differences Between Religious and Secular Subgroups in the United States: Evidence from the General Social Survey. Review of Religious Research.
Assessing Measures of Religion and Secularity with Crowdsourced Data from Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Pp. 108-139 in Faithful Measures , edited by Roger Finke and Christopher Bader. New York: NYU Press.
The Politics of Humanism. In Oxford Handbook of Humanism, edited by Anthony Pinn.
Race, Gender, and Avowing (or Avoiding) the Stigma of Atheism. In Religion is Raced , edited by Grace Yukich and Penny Edgell. New York: NYU Press.
The Paranormal
Marginalized, Secularized, and Popularized? The Prevalence and Patterns of Paranormal Belief in the United Kingdom. Sociological Quarterly 66(3): 612-635.
A Bounded Affinity Theory of Religion and the Paranormal. Sociology of Religion 77(4): 334-358.
A Social Anthropology of Ghosts in Twenty-First-Century America. Social Compass 61(4): 569-593.
Diverse Supernatural Portfolios: Certitude, Exclusivity, and the Curvilinear Relationship between Religiosity and Paranormal Belief. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 49(3): 413-424. Appendix
Countervailing Forces: Religiosity the Paranormal Belief in Italy. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 51(4): 705-720.