| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Patterns of Positive and Negative Religious Coping with Major Life Stressors | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1998 | 1,575 |
| 2 | Religion and Spirituality: Unfuzzying the Fuzzy | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1997 | 1,002 |
| 3 | Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1967 | 848 |
| 4 | Intrinsic/Extrinsic Measurement: I/E-Revised and Single-Item Scales | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1989 | 758 |
| 5 | Religiosity and Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis of Recent Studies | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2003 | 669 |
| 6 | Risk and Religion: An Explanation of Gender Differences in Religiosity | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1995 | 627 |
| 7 | Religion and the Problem-Solving Process: Three Styles of Coping | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1988 | 615 |
| 8 | Religious Involvement, Social Ties, and Social Support in a Southeastern Community | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1994 | 612 |
| 9 | A Supply-Side Reinterpretation of the "Secularization" of Europe | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1994 | 593 |
| 10 | Religious Practice: A Human Capital Approach | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1990 | 530 |
| 11 | The Construction and Preliminary Validation of a Measure of Reported Mystical Experience | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1975 | 499 |
| 12 | A Validated Intrinsic Religious Motivation Scale | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1972 | 490 |
| 13 | Theorizing Religious Effects Among American Adolescents | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2003 | 484 |
| 14 | The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1968 | 483 |
| 15 | The Religious Context of Prejudice | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1966 | 456 |
| 16 | Public Religions in the Modern World | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1995 | 420 |
| 17 | Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1987 | 397 |
| 18 | Spiritual But Not Religious? Beyond Binary Choices in the Study of Religion | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2013 | 393 |
| 19 | Attachment Theory and Religion: Childhood Attachments, Religious Beliefs, and Conversion | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1990 | 363 |
| 20 | Health Outcomes and a New Index of Spiritual Experience | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1991 | 319 |
| 21 | God Image as a Function of Self-Esteem and Locus of Control | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1973 | 317 |
| 22 | Intrinsic-Extrinsic Religious Orientation: The Boon or Bane of Contemporary Psychology of Religion? | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1990 | 308 |
| 23 | Religion as Prosocial: Agent or Double Agent? | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1976 | 307 |
| 24 | Two Dimensions of Attachment to God and Their Relation to Affect, Religiosity, and Personality Constructs | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2002 | 294 |
| 25 | Religious Influence on Marital Stability | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1997 | 293 |
| 26 | Physiology and Faith: Addressing the “Universal” Gender Difference in Religious Commitment | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2002 | 291 |
| 27 | Prosocial Behavior and Religion: New Evidence Based on Projective Measures and Peer Ratings | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2005 | 291 |
| 28 | Measuring Religion as Quest: 1) Validity Concerns | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1991 | 289 |
| 29 | The Secularization Paradigm: A Systematization | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1991 | 285 |
| 30 | The Stress-Buffering Role of Spiritual Support: Cross-Sectional and Prospective Investigations | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1989 | 283 |
| 31 | Measuring Religion as Quest: 2) Reliability Concerns | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1991 | 283 |
| 32 | Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1975 | 271 |
| 33 | Religion and Political Economy in an International Panel | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2006 | 268 |
| 34 | “Being Religious” or “Being Spiritual” in America: A Zero‐Sum Proposition? | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2002 | 267 |
| 35 | Religious Involvement and Status-Bridging Social Capital | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2002 | 267 |
| 36 | Black and White Differences in Religious Participation: A Multisample Comparison | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1996 | 256 |
| 37 | The Philosophy of Moral Development | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1982 | 255 |
| 38 | Church‐Based Social Support and Religious Coping | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2001 | 252 |
| 39 | Some Second Thoughts on Substantive versus Functional Definitions of Religion | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1974 | 243 |
| 40 | Factor Analysis of the Mystical Experience Questionnaire: A Study of Experiences Occasioned by the Hallucinogen Psilocybin | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2012 | 243 |
| 41 | The Spiritual Turn and the Decline of Tradition: The Spread of Post‐Christian Spirituality in 14 Western Countries, 1981–2000 | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2007 | 242 |
| 42 | Hellfire and Delinquency: Another Look | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1974 | 241 |
| 43 | A General Attribution Theory for the Psychology of Religion | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1985 | 240 |
| 44 | ‘To Whom Much Has Been Given...’: Religious Capital and Community Voluntarism Among Churchgoing Protestants | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2000 | 239 |
| 45 | Development of an "Age Universal" I-E Scale | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1983 | 238 |
| 46 | Gay and Lesbian Christians: Homosexual and Religious Identity Integration in the Members and Participants of a Gay‐Positive Church | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2000 | 238 |
| 47 | Religious Coping Among the Religious: The Relationships Between Religious Coping and Well‐Being in a National Sample of Presbyterian Clergy, Elders, and Members | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2001 | 237 |
| 48 | Generations of Decline: Religious Change in 20th-Century Britain | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2006 | 231 |
| 49 | The Spiritual Assessment Inventory: A Theistic Model and Measure for Assessing Spiritual Development | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2002 | 223 |
| 50 | Mapping American Adolescent Religious Participation | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2002 | 222 |
| 51 | Religion and Attitudes toward the Environment | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1993 | 215 |
| 52 | The National Congregations Study: Background, Methods, and Selected Results | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1999 | 215 |
| 53 | Age and Religiosity: Evidence from a Three-Wave Panel Analysis | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1999 | 212 |
| 54 | Structuring the Religion-Environment Connection: Identifying Religious Influences on Environmental Concern and Activism | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2007 | 210 |
| 55 | Religious Orientations and the Targets of Discrimination | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1989 | 209 |
| 56 | Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1999 | 205 |
| 57 | The Psychology of Religion and Coping | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1998 | 204 |
| 58 | Religious Participation of Korean Immigrants in the United States | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1990 | 202 |
| 59 | Conversion Motifs | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1981 | 201 |
| 60 | Religion and the Meaning of Work | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1994 | 201 |
| 61 | SSSR Presidential Address Rain Dances in the Dry Season: Overcoming the Religious Congruence Fallacy | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2010 | 200 |
| 62 | Fundamentalism, Christian Orthodoxy, and Intrinsic Religious Orientation as Predictors of Discriminatory Attitudes | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1993 | 198 |
| 63 | Predicting Prejudice from Religious Fundamentalism and Right‐Wing Authoritarianism: A Multiple‐Regression Approach | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2001 | 193 |
| 64 | Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technical and Environmental Dangers | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1983 | 191 |
| 65 | Cognitive Constraints on Hindu Concepts of the Divine | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1998 | 191 |
| 66 | Secularization on Trial: In Defense of a Neosecularization Paradigm | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1997 | 188 |
| 67 | Individual Differences in Religion and Spirituality: An Issue of Personality Traits and/or Values | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2008 | 188 |
| 68 | As the Flocks Gather: How Religion Affects Voluntary Association Participation | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2002 | 186 |
| 69 | The Crucified God | Theology Today | 1974 | 183 |
| 70 | Voodoo Economics? Reviewing the Rational Choice Approach to Religion | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1995 | 183 |
| 71 | When is Faith Enough? The Effects of Religious Involvement on Depression | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2001 | 180 |
| 72 | The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1974 | 177 |
| 73 | The Power, but Not the Glory: How Women Empower Themselves Through Religion | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1996 | 174 |
| 74 | The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1981 | 172 |
| 75 | Religion and Health among Black and White Adults: Examining Social Support and Consolation | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1994 | 172 |
| 76 | Secular and Liminal: Discovering Heterogeneity Among Religious Nones | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2010 | 172 |
| 77 | Prejudice and Relegious Types: A Focused Study of Southern Fundamentalists | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1964 | 171 |
| 78 | Religious Involvement and Social Resources: Evidence from the Data Set "Americans' Changing Lives" | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1995 | 170 |
| 79 | Forgiveness by God, Forgiveness of Others, and Psychological Well-Being in Late Life | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2003 | 170 |
| 80 | The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival and Cult Formation | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1986 | 169 |
| 81 | Beneath the Status Characteristic: Gender Variations in Religiousness | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1991 | 169 |
| 82 | SSSR Presidential Address Public Religions and the Postsecular: Critical Reflections | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2012 | 169 |
| 83 | Religiosity, Life Meaning and Wellbeing: Some Relationships in a Sample of Women | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1988 | 168 |
| 84 | Religious Coping and Church‐Based Social Support as Predictors of Mental Health Outcomes: Testing a Conceptual Model | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2002 | 168 |
| 85 | Gods, Rituals, and the Moral Order | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2001 | 167 |
| 86 | Religious Fundamentalism as a Predictor of Prejudice: A Two-Component Model | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2002 | 167 |
| 87 | God and the Just World: Causal and Coping Attributions to God in Health Situations | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1986 | 165 |
| 88 | Dimensions of the Mysticism Scale: Confirming the Three‐Factor Structure in the United States and Iran | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2001 | 164 |
| 89 | Believe It Or Not: Religious and Other Paranormal Beliefs in the United States | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2003 | 164 |
| 90 | Lost in the Market, Saved at McDonald's: Conversion to Christianity in Urban China | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2005 | 162 |
| 91 | Varieties of Religious Involvement and Environmental Concerns: Testing the Lynn White Thesis | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1989 | 161 |
| 92 | Religious Consolation Among Men and Women: Do HealthProblems Spur Seeking? | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2000 | 161 |
| 93 | A Longitudinal Study of Changes in Religious Belief and Behavior as a Function of Individual Differences in Adult Attachment Style | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1997 | 160 |
| 94 | Social and Cognitive Influences on the Development of Religious Beliefs and Commitment in Adolescence | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1989 | 159 |
| 95 | Who Gives to the Poor? The Influence of Religious Tradition and Political Location on the Personal Generosity of Americans toward the Poor | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1998 | 159 |
| 96 | The Effect of Parents' Fundamentalism on Children's Educational Attainment: Examining Differences by Gender and Children's Fundamentalism | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1999 | 159 |
| 97 | The Concept of Secularization in Empirical Research | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1967 | 158 |
| 98 | Measuring the Religious Variable: National Replication | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1975 | 158 |
| 99 | Single vs. Multiple-Item Scales for Measuring Religious Values | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1972 | 157 |
| 100 | American Piety: The Nature of Religious Commitment | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1969 | 152 |
