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D-Index
54
Citations
22015
World Ranking
2084
National Ranking
1001

Overview

Christian Smith is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the social sciences, health professions, and arts and humanities, with a particular focus on sociology, political science, philosophy, social psychology, and geography, planning, and development.

The main topics of Christian Smith's work include:

  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
  • Community Health and Development
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Religious Tourism and Spaces
  • Political Economy and Marxism

Their recent publications reflect involvement in a variety of research areas and venues. Notable papers include:

  • "The point is to change it": The Imperative for Activist Literary Studies (2020), Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
  • Procedures for Reliable Cultural Model Analysis Using Semi-structured Interviews (2021), Field Methods
  • Does State Allocation of University Funding Mitigate Effectively Maintained Inequality? (2021), Proceedings of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting
  • Predicting terrorist attacks in the United States using localized news data (2022), PLoS ONE
  • Comparison between Behavior Trees and Finite State Machines (2024), arXiv (Cornell University)

Christian Smith has also authored a book titled Why Religion Went Obsolete, published by Oxford University Press with a projected publication year of 2025.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Heather E. Price, Steven J. Krieg, Rusha Chatterjee, Nitesh V. Chawla, and Matteo Iovino.

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues such as Field Methods, Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, PLoS ONE, arXiv (Cornell University), and the Proceedings of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting, demonstrating a diverse scope of interest across social sciences, humanities, and health professions.

Best Publications

  • Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers

    Christian Smith;Melinda Lundquist Denton

  • American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving

    Christian Smith

  • Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults

    Christian Smith;Patricia Snell

  • Theorizing Religious Effects Among American Adolescents

    Christian Smith

  • Moral, believing animals : human personhood and culture

    Christian Smith

  • What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

    Christian Smith

  • The Emergence of Liberation Theology: Radical Religion and Social Movement Theory

    Christian Smith

  • Christian America? What Evangelicals Really Want

    Christian Smith

  • Fundamentalism et al: Conservative Protestants in America

    Robert D. Woodberry;Christian S. Smith

  • Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood

    Christian Smith;Kari Christoffersen;Hilary Davidson;Patricia Snell Herzog

  • Mapping American Adolescent Religious Participation

    Christian Smith;Melinda Lundquist Denton;Robert Faris;Mark Regnerus

  • Souls in Transition

    Christian Smith;Patricia Snell

  • ‘To Whom Much Has Been Given...’: Religious Capital and Community Voluntarism Among Churchgoing Protestants

    Jerry Z. Park;Christian Smith

  • SYMBOLIC TRADITIONALISM AND PRAGMATIC EGALITARIANISM Contemporary Evangelicals, Families, and Gender

    Sally K. Gallagher;Christian Smith

  • Social Context in the Development of Adolescent Religiosity

    Mark D. Regnerus;Christian Smith;Brad Smith

  • Who Gives to the Poor? The Influence of Religious Tradition and Political Location on the Personal Generosity of Americans Toward the Poor

    Mark D. Regnerus;Christian Smith;David Sikkink

  • The secular revolution : power, interests, and conflict in the secularization of American public life

    Christian Smith

  • Mapping American Adolescent Subjective Religiosity and Attitudes of Alienation Toward Religion: A Research Report

    Christian Smith;Robert Faris;Melinda Lundquist Denton;Mark Regnerus

  • Disruptive Religion : The Force of Faith in Social Movement Activism

    Christian Smith

  • Moral, Believing Animals

    Christian Smith

  • The Emergence of Liberation Theology: Radical Religion and Social Movement Theory.

    Emilia Rodriguez-Stein;Christian Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark D. Regnerus
Mark D. Regnerus The University of Texas at Austin
Elaine Howard Ecklund
Elaine Howard Ecklund Rice University
Robert Wuthnow
Robert Wuthnow Princeton University

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