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Author-Meets-Critics Session for Prophets and Patriots, SSSR 2017 (Pictured with Grace Yukich, Gary Adler and Rhys Williams)
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selected publications
books
Braunstein, Ruth. 2017. Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide. University of California Press.
Braunstein, Ruth, Todd Nicholas Fuist and Rhys H. Williams, Eds. 2017. Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories About Faith and Politics. NYU Press.
special issues
Braunstein, Ruth, Ed. 2019. Religion, Humility and Democracy in a Divided America (Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 36). Emerald Publishing Limited.
articles
Braunstein, Ruth. 2021. “The ‘Right’ History: Religion, Race, and Nostalgic Stories of Christian America.” Religions 12(2): 95.
Baker, Joseph O., Gerardo Martí, Ruth Braunstein, Andrew L Whitehead, Grace Yukich. 2020. “Editor’s Note: Religion in the Age of Social Distancing: How COVID-19 Presents New Directions for Research.” Sociology of Religion 81(4): 357–370.
Braunstein, Ruth, Todd Fuist, and Rhys Williams. 2019. Religion and progressive politics in the United States. Sociology Compass13(2): e12656.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2018. Boundary-work and the demarcation of civil from uncivil protest in the United States: control, legitimacy, and political inequality. Theory and Society 47(5): 603-633.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2018. A (more) perfect union? Religion, politics, and competing stories of America. Sociology of Religion 79(2): 172–195.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2017. Muslims as outsiders, enemies and others: The 2016 presidential campaign and the politics of religious exclusion. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 5(3): 355-372.
Braunstein, Ruth and Malaena Taylor. 2017. Is the Tea Party a “religious” movement? Religiosity in the Tea Party versus the Religious Right. Sociology of Religion 78(1): 33-59.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2015. The Tea Party goes to Washington: Mass demonstrations as performative and interactional processes.” Qualitative Sociology 38(4): 353-374. (Lead article).
Yukich, Grace and Ruth Braunstein. 2014. Encounters at the religious edge: Variation in religious expression across interfaith advocacy and social movement spaces. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53(4): 791-807.
Braunstein, Ruth, Brad R. Fulton, and Richard L. Wood. 2014. The role of bridging cultural practices in racially and socioeconomically diverse civic organizations. American Sociological Review 79(4): 705-25.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2012. Storytelling in liberal religious advocacy. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 51(1):110-127.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2011. Who are ‘We the People’? Contexts, Spring 2011.
Manza, Jeff and Ruth Braunstein. 2008. Beyond the ballot box: Social groups and voting in democratic elections. Harvard International Review, 30(1): 40-43.
book chapters
Braunstein, Ruth. 2019. Beyond the dogmatic believer: religious conviction across the American political divide. Pp.1-22 in Religion, Humility, and Democracy in a Divided America (Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 36), Emerald Publishing Limited.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2017. Strategic storytelling by Nuns on the Bus. Pp.289-307 in Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories about Faith and Politics, Ruth Braunstein, Todd Nicholas Fuist and Rhys H. Williams, Eds. New York: NYU Press.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2014. “Who are ‘We the People’? Multidimensional identity work in the Tea Party,” Pp. 149-173 in Understanding the Tea Party Movement, Nella Van Dyke and David S. Meyer, Eds. Ashgate.
public writing (selected)
Braunstein, Ruth. 2021. "Georgia on My Mind: American Christianity between Mythology and Prophecy." Series on "Faith and the American Insurrection." Berkley Forum.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2019. "Making Budgets Moral Again." Series on "The Religious Left: Memory, Trajectory, Relevance." The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2018. "Political Myopia and Prophetic Vision." Series on "Is This All There Is?" The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2018. (Excerpt) Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide: “A shared vision for a more just country that we all call home.” The Revealer: A Review of Religion and Media.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2018. "Good Troublemakers." Series on "American Religion, Humility and Democracy." The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth, Korie L. Edwards and Richard L. Wood, Co-Curators. 2017. "A Crisis of Political Arrogance." Introduction to Series on "American Religion, Humility and Democracy." The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2017. “A Deepening Political Divide.” University of California Press Blog.
Braunstein, Ruth, Editor. 2016. Series on “The Politics of National Identity,” with contributions from Mucahit Bilici, Rogers Brubaker, Philip Gorski, Peggy Levitt and Geneviève Zubrzycki. The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2016. “Mitt Romney & the Tea Party helped make Donald Trump… Can they unmake him?” Political Power & Social Theory: The Blogpages.
Braunstein, Ruth (Contributor). 2015. “Roundtable: Is the (Tea) Party Over?” Edited by Erik Kojola and Jack Delehanty. The Society Pages.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2014. “The Good, the Bad, and the Uncivil.” Participation and its Discontents. A Blog In Collaboration with the ASA Political Sociology Section.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2010. “Blogging and Academia,” in the Social Science Research Council report, “The New Landscape of the Religion Blogosphere.”
Braunstein, Ruth. 2011. “I would love to read the biography of a book...” (Interview with Fred Appel, Senior Editor, Princeton University Press). The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth and Grace Yukich. 2010. “Toward a Sociology of Social Religion.” The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth, David Buckley and Grace Yukich. 2010. “Discussing Mosques, Minarets, And Crosses.” The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2008. “Obama’s Faith in the Common Good.” The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2008. “Voting in a Year When ‘Muslim’ Was a Slur.” The Immanent Frame.
selected publications
books
Braunstein, Ruth. 2017. Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide. University of California Press.
Braunstein, Ruth, Todd Nicholas Fuist and Rhys H. Williams, Eds. 2017. Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories About Faith and Politics. NYU Press.
special issues
Braunstein, Ruth, Ed. 2019. Religion, Humility and Democracy in a Divided America (Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 36). Emerald Publishing Limited.
articles
Braunstein, Ruth. 2021. “The ‘Right’ History: Religion, Race, and Nostalgic Stories of Christian America.” Religions 12(2): 95.
Baker, Joseph O., Gerardo Martí, Ruth Braunstein, Andrew L Whitehead, Grace Yukich. 2020. “Editor’s Note: Religion in the Age of Social Distancing: How COVID-19 Presents New Directions for Research.” Sociology of Religion 81(4): 357–370.
Braunstein, Ruth, Todd Fuist, and Rhys Williams. 2019. Religion and progressive politics in the United States. Sociology Compass13(2): e12656.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2018. Boundary-work and the demarcation of civil from uncivil protest in the United States: control, legitimacy, and political inequality. Theory and Society 47(5): 603-633.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2018. A (more) perfect union? Religion, politics, and competing stories of America. Sociology of Religion 79(2): 172–195.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2017. Muslims as outsiders, enemies and others: The 2016 presidential campaign and the politics of religious exclusion. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 5(3): 355-372.
Braunstein, Ruth and Malaena Taylor. 2017. Is the Tea Party a “religious” movement? Religiosity in the Tea Party versus the Religious Right. Sociology of Religion 78(1): 33-59.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2015. The Tea Party goes to Washington: Mass demonstrations as performative and interactional processes.” Qualitative Sociology 38(4): 353-374. (Lead article).
Yukich, Grace and Ruth Braunstein. 2014. Encounters at the religious edge: Variation in religious expression across interfaith advocacy and social movement spaces. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53(4): 791-807.
Braunstein, Ruth, Brad R. Fulton, and Richard L. Wood. 2014. The role of bridging cultural practices in racially and socioeconomically diverse civic organizations. American Sociological Review 79(4): 705-25.
- Winner of the Clifford Geertz Best Article Award from the American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Culture
- Winner of the Dennis Gouran Research Award from the Group Communication Division of the National Communication Association
- Reviewed by The Society Pages and Work in Progress (blog of the American Sociological Association's Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section)
- Read about this research at UConn Today, New York Magazine's Science of Us, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, the Deseret News, Business Standard, the Kansas City Star, Psych Central News, Religion News Service, and Yahoo!News India.
- Listen to a podcast about this research. (Also available at the SAGE Sociology iTunes channel)
Braunstein, Ruth. 2012. Storytelling in liberal religious advocacy. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 51(1):110-127.
- Winner of Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention from the American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Religion
Braunstein, Ruth. 2011. Who are ‘We the People’? Contexts, Spring 2011.
Manza, Jeff and Ruth Braunstein. 2008. Beyond the ballot box: Social groups and voting in democratic elections. Harvard International Review, 30(1): 40-43.
book chapters
Braunstein, Ruth. 2019. Beyond the dogmatic believer: religious conviction across the American political divide. Pp.1-22 in Religion, Humility, and Democracy in a Divided America (Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 36), Emerald Publishing Limited.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2017. Strategic storytelling by Nuns on the Bus. Pp.289-307 in Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories about Faith and Politics, Ruth Braunstein, Todd Nicholas Fuist and Rhys H. Williams, Eds. New York: NYU Press.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2014. “Who are ‘We the People’? Multidimensional identity work in the Tea Party,” Pp. 149-173 in Understanding the Tea Party Movement, Nella Van Dyke and David S. Meyer, Eds. Ashgate.
- Reviewed in Contemporary Sociology (January 2016)
public writing (selected)
Braunstein, Ruth. 2021. "Georgia on My Mind: American Christianity between Mythology and Prophecy." Series on "Faith and the American Insurrection." Berkley Forum.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2019. "Making Budgets Moral Again." Series on "The Religious Left: Memory, Trajectory, Relevance." The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2018. "Political Myopia and Prophetic Vision." Series on "Is This All There Is?" The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2018. (Excerpt) Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide: “A shared vision for a more just country that we all call home.” The Revealer: A Review of Religion and Media.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2018. "Good Troublemakers." Series on "American Religion, Humility and Democracy." The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth, Korie L. Edwards and Richard L. Wood, Co-Curators. 2017. "A Crisis of Political Arrogance." Introduction to Series on "American Religion, Humility and Democracy." The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2017. “A Deepening Political Divide.” University of California Press Blog.
Braunstein, Ruth, Editor. 2016. Series on “The Politics of National Identity,” with contributions from Mucahit Bilici, Rogers Brubaker, Philip Gorski, Peggy Levitt and Geneviève Zubrzycki. The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2016. “Mitt Romney & the Tea Party helped make Donald Trump… Can they unmake him?” Political Power & Social Theory: The Blogpages.
Braunstein, Ruth (Contributor). 2015. “Roundtable: Is the (Tea) Party Over?” Edited by Erik Kojola and Jack Delehanty. The Society Pages.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2014. “The Good, the Bad, and the Uncivil.” Participation and its Discontents. A Blog In Collaboration with the ASA Political Sociology Section.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2010. “Blogging and Academia,” in the Social Science Research Council report, “The New Landscape of the Religion Blogosphere.”
Braunstein, Ruth. 2011. “I would love to read the biography of a book...” (Interview with Fred Appel, Senior Editor, Princeton University Press). The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth and Grace Yukich. 2010. “Toward a Sociology of Social Religion.” The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth, David Buckley and Grace Yukich. 2010. “Discussing Mosques, Minarets, And Crosses.” The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2008. “Obama’s Faith in the Common Good.” The Immanent Frame.
Braunstein, Ruth. 2008. “Voting in a Year When ‘Muslim’ Was a Slur.” The Immanent Frame.
