Below are articles and book chapters, organized by topic. Email me 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.
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.
Deviance and Penology
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.
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"
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.