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Abellanosa, Rhoderick and John Suarez. 2020. “The Church as a Sacrament in a Time of Pandemic: The Philippine Experience.” Studies in World Christianity 26(3):261-80. doi: 10.3366/swc.2020.0309.

Acevedo, Gabriel A., Reed T. DeAngelis, Jordan Farrell, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2022. “Is it the Sermon or the Choir? Pastoral Support, Congregant Support, and Worshiper Mental Health.” Review of Religious Research 64 (4): 577-600.

Adams, Jimi. 2007. “Stained Glass Makes The Ceiling Visible: Organizational Opposition to Women in Congregational Leadership.” Gender & Society 21(1):80-105. (Article)

Adler, Gary. 2012. “An Opening in the Congregational Closet? Boundary-Bridging Culture and Membership Privileges for Gays and Lesbians in Christian Religious Congregations.” Social Problems 59(2): 177-206. (Article)

Adler Jr., Gary J. and Stephen Offutt. 2017. “The Gift Economy of Direct Transnational Civic Action: How Reciprocity and Inequality Are Managed in Religious “Partnerships”.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 56(3):600-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12369.

Adler, Gary J. and Brian Starks. 2018. “What Veteran Parishes Can Teach Us: How Long-Serving Spanish-Language Ministries Successfully Integrate Latinos within the Parish.” Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community 46(4):340-54. doi: 10.1080/10852352.2018.1507495.

Adler, Gary J., Tricia C. Bruce and Brian Starks, eds. 2019. American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism. New York: Fordham University Press.

Ahmed, Abdul-Azim. 2020. “Thinking Congregationally About British Muslims.” Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations:1-26. doi: 10.1080/09596410.2020.1732171.

Alder, Douglas D. 2018. “The Mormon Ward: Congregation or Community?”. Journal of Mormon History 44(1):150-73. doi: 10.5406/jmormhist.44.1.0150.

Ali, Tazeen M. 2022. The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in U.S. Islam. New York: New York University Press.

Ammerman, Nancy Tatom. 1987. Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. (Amazon)

Ammerman, Nancy Tatom. 1997. Congregation and Community. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. (Amazon)

Ammerman, Nancy T. 1997. “Golden Rule Christianity: Lived Religion in the American Mainstream.” Pp. 196-216 in Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice, edited by David Hall. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Ammerman, Nancy Tatom. 2001. “Still Gathering After All These Years: Congregations in U.S. Cities.” In A. Walsh (Ed.), Can Charitable Choice Work? Covering Religion’s Impact on Urban Affairs and Social Services. Hartford, CT: The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion and Public Life, Trinity College. (Amazon)

Ammerman, Nancy Tatom. 2005. Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners. Berkeley, Cal.: University of California Press. (Amazon)

Ammerman, Nancy T. 2014. Everyday Life, People of Faith, and Lessons for Those Who Seek to Lead Them. Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review 46 (1):3-17.

Ammerman, Nancy T. 2018. “Foreword: From the USA to Europe and Back.” Pp. v-xvi in Congregations in Europe, edited by C. Monnot and J. Stolz. New York: Springer.

Ammerman, Nancy T. 2019. “Studying Parishes: Lessons and New Directions from the Study of Congregations.” in American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism, edited by G. J. Adler, T. C. Bruce and B. Starks. New York: Fordham University Press.

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Anderson, S. L., Martinez, J. H., Hoegeman, C., Adler, G., & Chaves, M. 2008. “Dearly Departed: How Often Do Congregations Close?” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47 (2): 321-328. (Article)

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Azzara, Monique. 2019. “Grappling with the Impermanence of Place: A Black Baptist Congregation in South Los Angeles.” City & Society 31(1):77-93. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12203.

Baker, Christopher. 2013. Moral Freighting and Civic Engagement: A UK Perspective on Putnam and Campbell’s Theory of Religious-Based Social Action. Sociology of Religion 74 (3):343-369.

Bakker, Janel Kragt. 2014. Sister Churches: American Congregations and Their Partners Abroad. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bane, M. J. 2005. “The Catholic Puzzle: Parishes and Civic Lives.” In M. J. Bane, B. Coffin, & R. Higgins (Eds.), Taking Faith Seriously: Valuing and Evaluating Religion in American Democracy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Amazon)

Barnes, Sandra L. 2011. “Black Church Sponsorship of Economic Programs: A Test of Survival and Liberation Strategies.” Review of Religious Research 53(1):23-40.

Barnes, Sandra. 2013. Live Long and Prosper: How Black Megachurches Address Hiv/Aids and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology. New York: Fordham University Press.

Barnes, Sandra L. 2015. “To Educate, Equip, and Empower: Black Church Sponsorship of Tutoring or Literary Programs.” Review of Religious Research 57(1):111-29. doi: 10.1007/s13644-014-0173-2.

Barron, Jessica and Rhys Williams. 2017. The Urban Church Imagined. New York: NYU Press.

Bartkowski, John P. and Susan E. Grettenberger. 2018. The Arc of Faith-Based Initiatives: Religion’s Changing Role in Welfare Service Provision: Springer.

Bartkowski, John, and Helen A. Regis. 2003. Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era. New York: New York University Press. (Amazon)

Baruth, Meghan, Melissa Bopp, Benjamin L. Webb, and Jane A. Peterson. 2015. “The Role and Influence of Faith Leaders on Health-Related Issues and Programs in their Congregation.” Journal of Religion and Health 54 (5): 1747-1759.

Bass, Diana Butler. 2002. Strength for the Journey: A Pilgrimage of Faith in Community. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (Amazon)

Baumann, Roger. 2023. “Race, Religion, and Global Solidarities: W.E.B. Du Bois and “The Black Church” as a Contested Category.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Bean, Lydia. 2014. The Politics of Evangelical Identity: Local Churches and Partisan Divides in the United States and Canada. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Amazon)

Becker, Penny Edgell. 1999. Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Amazon)

Ben-Lulu, Elazar. 2021. ““Let Us Bless the Twilight”: Intersectionality of Traditional Jewish Ritual and Queer Pride in a Reform Congregation in Israel.” Journal of Homosexuality 68(1):23-46. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2019.1621555.

Ben-Lulu, Elazar. 2021. “Zooming In and Out of Virtual Jewish Prayer Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 60 (4): 852-870.

Ben-Lulu, Elazar. 2023. “Empathy from the Margins: Observing Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) Events in a Reform Jewish Congregation.” Religions 14 (3): 324.

Bendroth, M. 2002. Growing Up Protestant: Parents, Children, and Mainline Churches. Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. (Amazon)

Bereza, Sarah. 2017. “The Right Kind of Music: Fundamentalist Christianity as Musical and Cultural Practice.” PhD dissertation, Duke University.

Berger, Eric. 2019. “In St. Louis, Mapping How Religion Is Lived — in Sanctuaries Holy and Profane.” Religion News Service. Retrieved: 9 September (https://religionnews.com/2019/09/11/in-st-louis-mapping-how-religion-is-lived-in-sanctuaries-holy-and-profane/).

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Berrelleza, Erick. 2020. “Exclusion in Upscaling Institutions: The Reproduction of Neighborhood Segregation in an Urban Church.” City and Community 19. doi: 10.1111/cico.12474.

Berrelleza, Erick, and Phyllis Zagano. 2019. “What Do U.S. Catholics Think About Women Deacons?” Review of Religious Research 61 (3): 273-284.

Beyerlein, Kraig and Mark Chaves. 2020. “The Political Mobilization of America’s Congregations.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 59(4):663-74. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12680.

Beyerlein, Kraig and A. Joseph West. 2017. “Why Congregations Mobilize for Progressive Causes.” Pp. 76-96 in Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories About Faith and Politics, edited by R. Braunstein, T. N. Fuist and R. Williams. New York: NYU Press.

Bielo, James. 2011. Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Moderntiy, and the Desire for Authenticity. New York: New York University Press. (Amazon)

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Bobbitt, Linda, Oretha Miller-Davis, Joel Hinck, Susan Modrow, Molly Schroeder, and Ashley Tangen. 2018. “Exaggerated Vitality on Congregation’s Annual Reports?” Review of Religious Research 60 (3): 423-424.

Bok, Jared. 2021. “The Arts in Sacred Spaces: How Religious Conservatism and Cultural Omnivorousness Influence Attitudes About Congregational Involvement in the Arts.” Review of Religious Research. doi: 10.1007/s13644-021-00467-w.

Bok, Jared. 2022. “The Arts in Sacred Spaces: How Religious Conservatism and Cultural Omnivorousness Influence Attitudes About Congregational Involvement in the Arts.” Review of Religious Research 64 (1): 77-101.

Bolger, Daniel, Cleve Tinsley and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2018. “Heaven and Health: How Black, Latino, and Korean Christians View the Relationship between Faith and Health.” Review of Religious Research 60(3):389-402.

Bolger, Daniel, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2018. “Whose Authority? Perceptions of Science Education in Black and Latino Churches.” Review of Religious Research 60 (1): 49-70.

Bolger, Daniel, Cleve Tinsley, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2018. “Heaven and Health: How Black, Latino, and Korean Christians View the Relationship Between Faith and Health.” Review of Religious Research 60 (3): 389-402.

Bonhag, Rebecca and Laura Upenieks. 2021. “Mattering to God and to the Congregation: Gendered Effects in Mattering as a Mechanism between Religiosity and Mental Health.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 60(4):890-913. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12753.

Bonhag, Rebecca, and Laura Upenieks. 2021. “Mattering to God and to the Congregation: Gendered Effects in Mattering as a Mechanism Between Religiosity and Mental Health.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 60 (4): 890-913.

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Borell, K., & Gerdner, A. 2013. “Cooperation or Isolation? Muslim Congregations in a Scandinavian Welfare State: A Nationally Representative Survey from Sweden.” Review of Religious Research 55: 557-571. (Article)

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Brooke, Petra. 2023. “Professionalism and faith: a case study of Salvation Army congregational social work in Norway.” Journal of Comparative Social Work 18 (1): 5-33.

Brown, R. Khari, Ronald E. Brown, and James S. Jackson. 2021. Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Brown, R. Khari, Ronald E. Brown, and Randall Wyatt. 2023. “Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter: Assessing the Association between Sermon Content and Racial Justice Attitudes and Behaviors.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Brown, R. Khari, Edwin Eschler, and Ronald E. Brown. 2021. “Political Congregations, Race, and Environmental Policy Attitudes.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 60 (2): 309-331.

Brown, R. Khari, Robert Joseph Taylor and Linda M. Chatters. 2013. “Religious Non-Involvement among African Americans, Black Caribbeans and Non-Hispanic Whites: Findings from the National Survey of American Life.” Review of Religious Research 55(3):435-57. doi: 10.1007/s13644-013-0111-8.

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Bruce, Tricia C.. 2017. Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church. New York: Oxford University Press.

Burchardt, Marian. 2013. Faith-Based Humanitarianism: Organizational Change and Everyday Meanings in South Africa. Sociology of Religion 74 (1):30-55.

Cafferata, Gail. 2020. The Last Pastor: Faithfully Steering a Closing Church. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox.

Cafferata, Gail. 2020. “Gender, Judicatory Respect and Pastors’ Well-Being in Closing Churches.” Review of Religious Research 62 (2): 369-387.

Calvillo, Jonathan E. 2020. The Saints of Santa Ana: Faith and Ethnicity in a Mexican Majority City. New York: Oxford University Press.

Calvillo, Jonathan E., and Stanley R. Bailey. 2015. Latino Religious Affiliation and Ethnic Identity. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 54 (1):57-78.

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Carroll, Jackson W. 2006. God’s Potters: Pastoral Leadership and the Shaping of Congregations. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans.

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Chaves, Mark. 1999. “Religious Congregations and Welfare Reform: Who Will Take Advantage of ‘Charitable Choice’?” American Sociological Review 64:836-846. (Article)

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Chaves, M., & Anderson, S. L. 2014. Changing American Congregations: Findings from the Third Wave of the National Congregations Study. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53(4): 676-686. (Article)

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Cobb, R. J., Perry, S. L., & Dougherty, K. D. 2015. United by Faith? Race/Ethnicity, Congregational Diversity, and Explanations of Racial Inequality. Sociology of Religion 76(2): 177-198. (Article)

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Corcoran, Katie E., Rachel E. Stein, Corey J. Colyer, and Brittany M. Kowalski. 2021. “Familial Ties, Location of Occupation, and Congregational Exit in Geographically-Based Congregations: A Case Study of the Amish.” Review of Religious Research 63 (2): 245-268.

Corcoran, Katie E., Rachel E. Stein, Corey J. Colyer and Brittany M. Kowalski. 2021. “Familial Ties, Location of Occupation, and Congregational Exit in Geographically-Based Congregations: A Case Study of the Amish.” Review of Religious Research 63(2):245-68. doi: 10.1007/s13644-020-00438-7.

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