2026 Robert Wuthnow: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

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Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	65	1006	872	470	398	412	30289

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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30289

World Ranking

1006

National Ranking

470

Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2003 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Robert Wuthnow is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans social sciences and arts and humanities, with a strong focus on sociology, political science, and related interdisciplinary areas.

Their work concentrates on topics including religion and society interactions, American constitutional law and politics, and the development dimensions of religion and society. Additional focuses include religious tourism and spaces, the study and philosophy of religion, and religious education and schools.

Recent papers by Robert Wuthnow include:

The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience: Atheism in American Culture, 2020, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
Religion, Democracy & the Task of Restoring Trust, 2022, Daedalus
Fighting to Preserve a Nation's Soul: America's Ecumenical War on Poverty. By Robert Bauman. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019. xviii + 208 pp. $54.95 cloth., 2020, Church History

Their frequent co-authors include:

Matthias Koenig
J. W. Payne
Mar-Garita Mooney
Julie Park
Rachel Stephen

Robert Wuthnow publishes regularly in venues such as:

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
Daedalus
Church History

A significant portion of their book publications has been released through Princeton University Press, with at least nine books in their catalogue. Notable titles include:

Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy (2021)
What Happens When We Practice Religion? (2020)
Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice (2023)
The Restructuring of American Religion (2021)

Throughout their career, Robert Wuthnow has been recognized with honors such as being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2003.

Best Publications

The restructuring of American religion

William Sims Bainbridge;Robert Wuthnow

2930
Citations
The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II

Robert Wuthnow

2553
Citations
After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s

Robert Wuthnow

1896
Citations
Acts of Compassion

Robert Wuthnow

1608
Citations
Meaning and Moral Order

Robert Wuthnow

1537
Citations
Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves

Robert Wuthnow

1516
Citations
Sharing the Journey: Support Groups and America's New Quest for Community

Robert Wuthnow

1241
Citations
Loose Connections: Joining Together in America's Fragmented Communities

Robert Wuthnow

1052
Citations
Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism

Robert Wuthnow

1017
Citations
Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas

Robert Wuthnow;James Davison Hunter;Albert J. Bergesen;Edith Kurzweil

835
Citations
The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II

Wade Clark Roof;Robert Wuthnow

796
Citations
After the Baby Boomers

Robert Wuthnow

700
Citations
After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion

Robert Wuthnow

682
Citations
Religious Involvement and Status‐Bridging Social Capital

Robert Wuthnow

643
Citations
America and the challenges of religious diversity

Robert Wuthnow

638
Citations
Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves

James G. Hougland;Robert Wuthnow

624
Citations
Saving America?: Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society

Robert J. Wuthnow

595
Citations
Meaning and Moral Order: Explorations in Cultural Analysis

Robert Wuthnow

595
Citations
God And Mammon In America

Robert Wuthnow

395
Citations
The Struggle for America's Soul: Evangelicals, Liberals, and Secularism

Robert Wuthnow

378
Citations
After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s.

Donald E. Miller;Robert Wuthnow

11
Citations
Meaning and Moral Order: Explorations in Cultural Analysis

Steven Tipton;Robert Wuthnow

5
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Habermas Goethe University Frankfurt

Peter V. Marsden Harvard University

William C. Cockerham University of Alabama at Birmingham

Noah E. Friedkin University of California, Santa Barbara

Glenna Spitze University at Albany, State University of New York

Peter L. Berger Boston University

Mary Douglas University College London

Christian Smith University of Notre Dame

Immanuel Wallerstein Yale University

Rodney Stark Baylor University

External Links

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