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Citations
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3826
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1822

Overview

Darren E. Sherkat is affiliated with Southern Illinois University Carbondale in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Sociology and Political Science. Other subfields include Health, Political Science and International Relations, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Social Psychology.

The main topics covered in their work encompass Religion and Society Interactions, Religion, Society, and Development, Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Social and Intergroup Psychology, and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence.

The scientist has a body of recent publications including:

  • Mooring Christian Nationalism: How Religious Institutions, Participation, and Beliefs Inform Christian Nationalism (2023, Sociological Quarterly)
  • Cognitive Sophistication, Religion, and the Trump Vote (2020, Social Science Quarterly)
  • Race, Gender, and the Relationship Between Religious Factors and Verbal Ability: An Intersectional Approach (2022, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion)
  • Researching Religion: Why We Need Social Science (2020, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews)
  • Review of "Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices" (2022, Social Forces)

Frequent co-authors include Christopher G. Ellison, Robert A. Hummer, Derek Lehman, Nabil "Bill" Julkif, and John P. Bartkowski. The collaboration pattern reflects work across a range of social science disciplines.

Publication venues where their work often appears are Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Social Forces, Sociological Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

One book is published under their name: Religion, Families, and Health (2020) by Rutgers University Press, which has received citations in the academic community.

Best Publications

  • RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND CURRENT CONTROVERSIES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

    Darren E. Sherkat;Christopher G. Ellison

  • Preferences, Constraints, and Choices in Religious Markets: An Examination of Religious Switching and Apostasy

    Darren E. Sherkat;John Wilson

  • The impact of protestant fundamentalism on educational attainment

    Alfred Darnell;Darren E. Sherkat

  • The “Semi-involuntary Institution” Revisited: Regional Variations in Church Participation among Black Americans

    Christopher G. Ellison;Darren E. Sherkat

  • Conservative protestantism and support for corporal punishment

    Christopher G. Ellison;Darren E. Sherkat

  • Structuring the Religion-Environment Connection: Identifying Religious Influences on Environmental Concern and Activism

    Darren E. Sherkat;Christopher G. Ellison

  • Religion, politics, and support for same-sex marriage in the United States, 1988-2008

    Darren E. Sherkat;Melissa Powell-Williams;Gregory Maddox;Kylan Mattias de Vries

  • Obedience and autonomy: Religion and parental values reconsidered.

    Christopher G. Ellison;Darren E. Sherkat

  • Race, Religion, and Opposition to Same‐Sex Marriage

    Darren E. Sherkat;Kylan Mattias De Vries;Stacia Creek

  • Sexuality and Religious Commitment in the United States: An Empirical Examination

    Darren E. Sherkat

  • The Cognitive Structure of a Moral Crusade: Conservative Protestantism and Opposition to Pornography

    Darren E. Sherkat;Christopher G. Ellison

  • The effects of religion and social support on self-esteem and depression among the suddenly bereaved

    Darren E. Sherkat;Darren E. Sherkat;Mark D. Reed;Mark D. Reed

  • Tracking the Restructuring of American Religion: Religious Affiliation and Patterns of Religious Mobility, 1973–1998

    Darren E. Sherkat

  • Counterculture or Continuity? Competing Influences on Baby Boomers' Religious Orientations and Participation

    Darren E. Sherkat

  • Returning to the fold

    John Wilson;Darren E. Sherkat

  • Are There Religious Variations in Marital Infidelity

    Amy M. Burdette;Christopher G. Ellison;Darren E. Sherkat;Kurt A. Gore

  • The effect of parents' fundamentalism on children's educational attainment : Examining differences by gender and children's fundamentalism

    Darren E. Sherkat;Alfred Darnell

  • The Political Development of Sixties'Activists: Identifying the Influence of Class, Gender, and Socialization on Protest Participation

    Darren E. Sherkat;T. Jean Blocker

  • Leaving the faith: Testing theories of religious switching using survival models

    Darren E Sherkat

  • The churching of America, 1776-1990 : winners and losers in our religious economy

    Roger Finke;Rodney Stark

  • Rendering unto Caesar: The Catholic Church and the State in Latin America.

    Darren E. Sherkat;Anthony Gill

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher G. Ellison
Christopher G. Ellison The University of Texas at San Antonio
John Wilson
John Wilson University of Southern California

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