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Peer-Reviewed Publications
Christopher Scheitle, Jacqui Frost, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2023. “The Association between Religious Discrimination and Health: Disaggregating by Types of Discrimination Experiences, Religious Tradition, and Forms of Health.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 62(4): 845-868.
Penny Edgell, Mahala Miller, and Jacqui Frost. 2023. “What Makes Life Meaningful? Combinations of Meaningful Commitments Among Nonreligious and Religious Americans.” Sociology of Religion 84(4): 426-446.
Jacqui Frost, Christopher Scheitle, Elaine Howard Ecklund, and Denise Daniels. 2023. “The Role of Region and Religious Tradition in Predicting Individuals’ Expressions of Faith in the Workplace.” Religions 14: 920.
Jacqui Frost. 2023. “Ritualizing Nonreligion: Cultivating Rational Rituals in Secular Spaces.” Social Forces 101(4): 2013-2033.
Jacqui Frost, Christopher Scheitle, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2023. “Patterns of Perceived Hostility and Identity Concealment among Self-identified Atheists.” Social Forces 101(3): 1580-1605.
Jacqui Frost and Penny Edgell. 2022. "'I Believe in Taking Care of People': Pushing Back Against Rationalized Systems with a Moral Logic of Care." Poetics 90: 1-12.
Jacqui Frost. 2019. “Certainty, Uncertainty, or Indifference? Examining Variation in the Identity Narratives of Nonreligious Americans." American Sociological Review 84(5): 828-850.
~ WINNER: Richard A. Peterson Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, ASA Culture Section, 2019
Jacqui Frost and Penny Edgell. 2018. "Rescuing Nones from the Reference Category: Civic Engagement Among the Nonreligious in America." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 47(2): 417-438.
Penny Edgell, Jacqui Frost, and Evan Stewart. 2017. "From Existential to Social Understandings of Risk: Examining Gender Differences in Nonreligion." Social Currents 4(6): 556–574.
Jacqui Frost and Penny Edgell. 2017. "Distinctiveness Reconsidered: Religiosity, Structural Location, and Understandings of Racial Inequality." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 56(2): 277-301.
Book Chapters
Jacqui Frost. 2021. "Religion for Atheists? Transhumanism, Mindfulness, and Atheist Churches." Pp. 1080-1094 in The Cambridge History of Atheism, edited by Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse. Cambridge University Press.
Jacqui Frost. 2017. "Rejecting Rejection Identities: Negotiating Positive Nonreligiosity at the Sunday Assembly." Pp. 171-190 in Organized Secularism in the United States, edited by Ryan Cragun, Lori Fazzino, and Christel Manning. De Gruyter.
Reviews, Comments, and Essays
Jacqui Frost. 2022. Review of Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power, by Brian Steensland, Jaime Kucinskas, and Anna Sun. Sociology of Religion.
Jacqui Frost. 2021. Review of Secularization, by Charles Turner. Secular Studies.
Jacqui Frost. 2020. "Rethinking the Risks of Rejecting Religion: Secular Speculations and the Construction of Nonreligious Risk Narratives." TERA 1(1): 56-62.
Jacqui Frost. 2020. Review of A Qualitative Study of Black Atheists: "Don’t Tell Me You’re One of Those!”, by Daniel Swann. Social Forces.
Jacqui Frost. 2019. "How Our Paradigms Limit Our Measures." Response to "Is Secularism a World Religion?" by Donovan Schaefer. Implicit Religion 22(1): 66-71.
Yağmur Karakaya and Jacqui Frost. 2019. "The Cultures of Cultural Sociology at Minnesota." Department Profile for ASA Culture Section newsletter.
Jacqui Frost. 2016. Review of American Secularism: Cultural Contours of Nonreligious Belief Systems, by Joseph O. Baker and Buster Smith. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Jacqui Frost. 2015. "Measuring Secularity." Response to "Understanding the Secular," with Phil Zuckerman and John R. Shook. The Religious Studies Project.
Jacqui Frost. 2013-2017. Published 51 short review essays for The Society Pages covering topics like the historical role of women in social movements, the social determinants of volunteerism, the predictable paradox of atheist churches, and the reappropriation of stigmatized labels. Full list and links available here.
Public Engagement and Media Coverage
German Public Radio. Radio interview for story on “Community Without God: Atheist Churches in the USA.” February 22, 2024.
The Conversation. “Church without God: How Secular Congregations Fill a Need for Some Nonreligious Americans.” January 11, 2024.
This Week in Sociological Perspectives Podcast. Interviewed about “Ritualizing Nonreligion: Cultivating Rational Rituals in Secular Spaces.” July 17, 2022.
Religion News Service. “Atheists Who are Women, Republicans, or Southerners More Likely to Hide Beliefs.” March 10, 2022.
Houston Public Media. Radio interview for article “Patterns of Perceived Hostility and Identity Concealment among Self-identified Atheists.” March 8, 2022.
Beyond Atheism Podcast. Interviewed for Episode 26, “Atheist Churches.” November 5, 2021.
Deputy Editor, Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Blog, 2018 - 2020.
Managing Editor, The Society Pages, 2016 - 2017