This book provides a rare window into the micropolitics of contemporary authoritarian rule
through a comparison of religious-state relations in Russia and China-two countries with …

Violence committed by men against women in intimate relationships is a pervasive problem
around the world. Patriarchal norms that place men as the head of household are often to …

Legitimacy is widely invoked as a condition, cause, and outcome of other social
phenomena, yet measuring legitimacy is a persistent challenge. In this article, I synthesize …

This article seeks to review recent research and scholarship in the sociology of Catholicism,
as well as focusing on areas needing greater attention. In taking stock of this literature, I …

In contrast to the portrayal of archives as neutral sites that contain evidence of times past,
this paper examines the construction of three archives during and after the Holocaust to …

This article revisits the writings of WEB Du Bois on the white church. Drawing on a synthetic
reading of his scholarship on white Christianity, I argue that Du Bois conceives of the white …

This essay evaluates the current United Nations approach to preventing and punishing
genocide by considering micro-level research on behavioral variation in genocide and …

Since the late 19th century, the state education systems across Europe have been central
political tools in not only state crafting but also in the solving of social problems. This is not …

Historical political economy (HPE) is a growing field, sped along by advances in
computational methods and data availability. These tools not only open up the past as a …

The narrative around American politics in popular culture is that citizens have rejected
economic voting and are instead engaged in a culture war (eg, Frank 2004; Kirk 2020). In …