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  1. Articulating The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership
  2. Understanding and Misunderstanding American Gun Culture and Violence
  3. A Woman’s Place in Gun Advertisements: The American Rifleman, 1920-2019
  4. Who Are the Liberal Gun Owners?
  5. Targeted advertising: documenting the emergence of Gun Culture 2.0 in Guns magazine, 1955–2019
  6. Targeted Advertising: Documenting the Emergence of Gun Culture 2.0 in Guns Magazine, 1955-2019
  7. The Rise of Self-Defense in Gun Advertising: The American Rifleman, 1918-2017
  8. “The First Rule of Gunfighting is Have a Gun”: Technologies of Concealed Carry in Gun Culture 2.0
  9. Awash in a Sea of Faith and Firearms: Rediscovering the Connection Between Religion and Gun Ownership in America
  10. Introduction
  11. Sport
  12. Handbook of Religion and Society
  13. Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday Life. By Nancy Tatom Ammerman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xviii+376. $29.95 (paper).
  14. Becoming Catholic
  15. Conclusion: Catholic Initiation as . . .
  16. Diane Gall: Finding a Home in Catholicism
  17. Introduction: Becoming Catholic in America
  18. Liturgy, Experience, and Formation
  19. Mystagogy: The End and the Beginning
  20. Objective and Subjective Incorporation Through the Sacraments of Initiation
  21. St. Innocent: “A People Destined for Heaven Is Born Here from Holy Seed”
  22. St. Mary’s and St. Mark’s: A Tale of Two Parishes
  23. The Circumstantial Convert as Moral Actor
  24. The Difference It Makes
  25. The Rite of Election: Through the Cathedral to Purification and Enlightenment
  26. Vatican II and the Reinvention of Adult Initiation
  27. Visions of Catholicism in RCIA Catechesis
  28. Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church by Christian Smith, et al.
  29. Initiation Rites in the Contemporary Catholic Church: What Difference Do They Make?
  30. Editor's Note: Announcement of Editorial Transition
  31. Welcome to Sociology of Religion 2.0
  32. Beyond Beliefs: Religion and the Sociology of Religion in America
  33. Religion in the Legislative Arena: Affiliation, Salience, Advocacy, and Public Policymaking
  34. Course Preparation Assignments: A Strategy for Creating Discussion-Based Courses
  35. Surviving Diversity: Religion and Democratic Citizenship
  36. Surviving Diversity: Religion and Democratic Citizenship
  37. Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools. By Amy J.  Binder. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xi+307. $35.00.
  38. Goodbye Father
  39. Catholic Identity: Balancing Reason, Faith, and Power
  40. Naked Public Square or Crumbling Wall of Separation? Evidence from Legislative Hearings in Wisconsin
  41. Narrative and Religious Experience
  42. Faith and Access: Personal Religiosity and Religious Group Advocacy in a State Legislature
  43. A Sociologist Comments on Sommerville: The Whole Is Less than the Sum of Its Parts
  44. Rational Choice Theory and Religion: Summary and Assessment (review)
  45. Secularization on Trial: In Defense of a Neosecularization Paradigm
  46. Where angels fear to tread: Richard Schoenherr (1935–1996)
  47. Collaboration and Its Discontents: Steps toward Overcoming Barriers to Successful Group Projects
  48. The Rise and Fall of Catholic Religious Orders: A Social Movement Perspective.
  49. Reply to Scheff
  50. The View from below: A Student's Response to Profscam
  51. Ways of Seeing Ecstasy in Modern Society: Experiential-Expressive and Cultural-Linguistic Views
  52. McCarthyism or alarmism?