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  1. Beyond Disenchantment: How Science Awakens Spiritual Yearning

    Article • Religions, April 2025, MDPI AG

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  2. The Enchantment of Science: Aesthetics and Spirituality in Scientific Work

    Article • Sociology of Religion, June 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  3. Open to talent? How scientists assess merit and diversity in hiring

    Article • Higher Education, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  4. Beauty in experiment: A qualitative analysis of aesthetic experiences in scientific practice

    Article • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, April 2024, Elsevier

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  5. Beauty in biology: An empirical assessment

    Article • Journal of Biosciences, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  6. Faith Leaders’ Views on Collaboration with Mental Health Professionals

    Article • Community Mental Health Journal, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  7. Aesthetic experiences and flourishing in science: A four-country study

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, August 2022, Frontiers

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  8. Looking beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: Congregants’ Expectations of Future Online Religious Service Attendance

    Article • Religions, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  9. Stigma toward mental illness and substance use disorders in faith communities: The roles of familiarity and causal attributions.

    Article • Stigma and Health, April 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  10. Mental Health Correlates of Sharing Private Problems in Congregations during the COVID‐19 Pandemic

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, February 2022, Wiley

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  11. SCIENCE–RELIGION BOUNDARIES IN INDIAN SCIENTIFIC WORKPLACES

    Article • Zygon®, December 2021, Wiley

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  12. Religious leaders’ trust in mental health professionals

    Article • Mental Health Religion & Culture, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  13. Racial differences in anticipated COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among religious populations in the US

    Article • Vaccine, October 2021, Elsevier

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  14. Race, Trust in Police, and Mental Health Crisis Support

    Article • Contexts, August 2021, SAGE Publications

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  15. Modernity as a Classical Problem in Sociological Theory

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  16. Mercenaries and Missionaries

    Article • April 2019, Cornell University Press

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  17. How Minority Religion Can Shape Corporate Capitalism: An Emergentist Account and Empirical Illustration

    Article • Business & Society, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  18. Naturally Ambivalent: Religion’s Role in Shaping Environmental Action

    Article • Sociology of Religion, January 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  19. Generosity, generativity and human flourishing

    Article • December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  20. Structural Strain in Science: Organizational Context, Career Stage, Discipline, and Role Composition

    Article • Sociological Inquiry, March 2017, Wiley

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  21. Rejecting the conflict narrative: American Jewish and Muslim views on science and religion

    Article • Social Compass, September 2016, SAGE Publications

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  22. Gossip as Social Control: Informal Sanctions on Ethical Violations in Scientific Workplaces

    Article • Social Problems, September 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  23. Religion, Poverty, and Development

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, June 2016, Wiley

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  24. Conflict & Community: Twin Tensions in Becoming a Multiethnic Congregation

    Article • Review of Religious Research, May 2015, SAGE Publications

    Brandon Vaidyanathan, Patricia Snell Herzog

  25. Causality in Contemporary American Sociology: An Empirical Assessment and Critique

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, February 2015, Wiley

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  26. Professional Socialization in Medicine

    Article • Virtual Mentor, February 2015, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  27. Overlap and Separation: Religion-Work Boundaries in the Workplace

    Article • Academy of Management Proceedings, January 2014, The Academy of Management

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  28. Roundtable on the Sociology of Religion: Twenty-Three Theses on the Status of Religion in American Sociology--A Mellon Working-Group Reflection

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Religion, August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  29. Religion in the Formal and Informal Economy: Catholicism and Professionals in the Arabian Gulf

    Article • Academy of Management Proceedings, July 2012, The Academy of Management

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  30. Professionalism ‘from below’: mobilization potential in Indian call centres

    Article • Work Employment and Society, April 2012, SAGE Publications

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  31. Religion and Charitable Financial Giving to Religious and Secular Causes: Does Political Ideology Matter?

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, September 2011, Wiley

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  32. Substitution or Symbiosis? Assessing the Relationship between Religious and Secular Giving

    Article • Social Forces, September 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  33. Religious Resources or Differential Returns? Early Religious Socialization and Declining Attendance in Emerging Adulthood

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, June 2011, Wiley

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  34. Multiple Modernities and Religion

    Article • December 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Brandon Vaidyanathan

  35. Motivations for and Obstacles to Religious Financial Giving

    Article • Sociology of Religion, October 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Brandon Vaidyanathan, Patricia Snell Herzog

  36. The Politics of the Liturgy in the Archdiocese of Bangalore

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Brandon Vaidyanathan