Does Funding Impact Our Research? Causality, Normativity, and Diversity in 40 Years of U.S. Sociology of Religion
In this article we use a sample of 40 years of sociology journal articles (N = 1,024) on religion to ask what role funding plays in some of the leading trends in the subdiscipline. Our analysis reveals a considerable increase in the number of published articles on religion with funding over the past...
| Published in: | Journal for the scientific study of religion |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2018]
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| In: |
Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 57, Issue: 3, Pages: 432-449 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Religious sociology
/ Object of research
/ Financing
/ Influence
/ History 1971-2011
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBQ North America |
| Further subjects: | B
Methodology
B pro-religiousness B Funding B sociocultural context |
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| Summary: | In this article we use a sample of 40 years of sociology journal articles (N = 1,024) on religion to ask what role funding plays in some of the leading trends in the subdiscipline. Our analysis reveals a considerable increase in the number of published articles on religion with funding over the past 40 years as well as a shift away from public funding as the primary source of funding. Engaging our findings in previous analyses of this database, we surprisingly find a positive correlation between public funding and positive socio-evaluative findings in articles on religion, but not between private funding and positive socio-evaluative findings. We also find a positive correlation between funding from religious organizations and research on religion in the United States and a weak, but negative, correlation between funding from religious organizations and research on non-Christian religious traditions. We do not find a relationship between funding and causal order. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12536 |