R K Brown

Biographic Data

ID20829
NAMER K Brown
GIVEN NAMESR K
FAMILY NAMEBrown
SIGNATUREBROWN R K
AFFILIATIONSWayne State University
ORCID0000-0002-6243-554X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS253
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX8

  • Introduction to the Special Issue

    Paul A Djupe, Jacob R Neiheisel et al.ARTICLESociological Focus2025Cited by: 1References: 4

  • Stroke Experiences and Unmet Needs of Individuals of African Descent Living in High-Income Economy Countries

    Open AccessHardeep Singh, Semtetam Patience Fakembe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2024Cited by: 1References: 93

    Background Stroke service disparities experienced by individuals of African descent highlight the need to optimize services. While qualitative studies have explored participants' unique experiences and service needs, a comprehensive synthesis is lacking. To address current knowledge gaps, this review aimed to synthesize existing literature on the experiences of individuals of African descent impacted by a stroke living in high-income economy coun…

  • Religious and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Flu and Covid-19 Vaccination Intentions

    R K Brown, Karael Campbell et al.ARTICLESociological Focus2023Cited by: 1References: 9

    Vaccination is an effective public health initiative to reduce severe illness and death due to COVID-19. Vaccine uptake in the United States has been uneven, however. One proposed mechanism to improve vaccine uptake is to engage religious groups to provide health information and encourage vaccination. It remains unclear though if Americans with differing racial/ethnic identities and religious affiliations are equally likely to receive health-rela…

  • Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter

    Open AccessR K Brown, Ronald E Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…2023Cited by: 4References: 22

    We use the 2020/2021 National Politics Study to examine two central questions: 1. How do religious beliefs and clergy sermons about race associate with support for Black Lives Matter (BLM) and racial justice work? And 2. Is the relationship between religion and BLM-related attitudes and activism similar or different across race groups? We found the following: In the months following the summer of 2020 protests in response to George Floyd's murder…

  • Religious Ideology, Race, and Health Care Policy Attitudes

    Open AccessR K Brown, Angela KaiserARTICLEPolitics and Religion2021References: 17

    Using two national general population and one clergy survey, we examined racial differences in the association between religious theology and health care policy attitudes. We find that controlling for religious faith, political partisanship, and social-demographic characteristics, religious theology more strongly associates with White health care policy attitudes than it is for Blacks and Hispanics. Whereas theologically liberal Whites are more l…

  • Political Congregations, Race, and Environmental Policy Attitudes

    Open AccessR K Brown, Edwin Eschler et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…2021Cited by: 3References: 37

    Using data from eight surveys collected between 1996 and 2016, this study examines race differences in the association between hearing sermons about environmental and other social-political issues and support for policies aimed at protecting the environment. While accounting for religious faith, political partisanship, and social-demographic characteristics, we find that Blacks and Hispanics are more likely to hear sermons about environmental and…

  • Race, Religious Tradition, and Environmental Conservation

    Open AccessR K Brown, Ronald E Brown et al.ARTICLESociology of Religion2021References: 25

    Using four national probability studies between the years 2010 and 2015, this study examines how religious beliefs help explain American support for or opposition to governmental efforts to protect the environment. We do so by investigating how race moderates this relationship. We find that religious beliefs associate with and likely inform the environmental policy attitudes of non-Hispanic Whites. We have less evidence that the same holds true f…

  • Opposition to the Affordable Care Act has Little to do with Health Care

    Open AccessB Franz, Adrienne Milner et al.ARTICLERace and Social Problems2020

  • Race, Religion and Support for the Affordable Care Act

    Open AccessB Franz, R K BrownARTICLEReview of Religious Research2020Cited by: 2References: 37

    Using Pew Research Center's Voter Attitudes Survey from 2012, we assess the impact race has on the relationship between religious faith and worship attendance with support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We find that White Evangelicals, independent of partisan affiliation and social-demographic characteristics, are more likely than White Non-Evangelicals to reject the ACA. In addition, among Whites, support for the ACA weakens with increasing …

  • Immigrant-Conscious Congregations

    Open AccessR K Brown, Angela Kaiser et al.ARTICLEPolitics and Religion2017Cited by: 4References: 14

    Using data collected between 2004 and 2008 from the National Politics Studies, this study explores the impact of race on the likelihood of attending worship settings that provide supportive services for and preach sermons about immigrants. It also considers the degree to which attending such worship settings associate with the perceptions that Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics hold of immigrants. We find that while Hispanics are more likely than Whit…

  • Race, Religion, and Anti-Poverty Policy Attitudes

    Open AccessRonald E Brown, R K Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…2016Cited by: 16References: 28

    Using the 2008 National Politics Study, the present study indicates that while African Americans are more likely than whites to hear sermons about poverty and other political issues, hearing such sermons more consistently associates with support for anti-poverty government programs among non-Hispanic whites than among both African Americans and Hispanics. The racially/ethnically marginalized status of blacks and Hispanics may contribute to these …

  • Race/Ethnic and Social-Demographic Correlates of Religious Non-Involvement in America

    Open AccessR K Brown, R J Taylor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Studies2015

    Our study investigates racial/ethnic differences in religious non-involvement using data from three national probability surveys: 2000 Social Capital Survey, 2004 National Politics Study, and the 2007 Religious Landscape Survey. Three measures of religious involvement are investigated: service attendance, religious denomination, and religious identification. We consistently find that non-Hispanic White, Hispanic, and Asian Americans are more like…

  • Race/Ethnicity, Religion and Partisan Leanings

    Open AccessR K Brown, Ronald E BrownARTICLEReview of Religious Research2015Cited by: 7References: 22

    Using the 2004-2008 national politics studies, our work suggests that race/ethnicity matters to our understanding of religion and partisan leanings. Among Whites, the association between religious faith and partisan leanings are, in part, explained by contrasting social-political attitudes held by Evangelical and Non-Evangelical Protestants. Similarly, the degree to which White attendees of congregations that encourage political discourse maintai…

  • African American Religious Participation

    Open AccessR J Taylor, Linda Chatters et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research2014Cited by: 27References: 44

    This study examines the socio-demographic correlates of religious participation using data from the African American sub-sample of the National Survey of American Life (NSAL, 2001-2003). Twelve indicators of organizational religiosity, non-organizational religiosity, subjective religiosity, religious non-involvement and religious identity are examined. Both standard (e.g., age, gender) and novel (e.g., incarceration history, military service, wel…

  • Worship Discourse and White Race-Based Policy Attitudes

    Open AccessR K Brown, Angela Kaiser et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research2014Cited by: 7References: 25

    The current study relies upon the 2004 National Politics Study to examine the association between exposure to race-based messages within places of worship and White race-based policy attitudes. The present study challenges the notion that, for White Americans, religiosity inevitably leads to racial prejudice. Rather, we argue, as others have, that religion exists on a continuum that spans from reinforcing to challenging the status quo of social i…

  • Religious Non-involvement Among African Americans, Black Caribbeans and Non-hispanic Whites

    Open AccessR K Brown, R J Taylor et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research2013Cited by: 8References: 25

    This study examines the association between race/ethnicity, socio-demographic characteristics, and religious non-involvement among a national sample of African Americans, Black Caribbeans and Non-Hispanic Whites. The relationship between religious non-involvement and selected measures of religious participation, spirituality, religious coping is also examined. The study utilizes data from a national multi-stage probability sample, the National Su…

  • Religion and Military Policy Attitudes in America

    Open AccessRonald E Brown, R K Brown et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research2013Cited by: 4References: 19

    The present study assesses the relationship between religious faith, worship discourse, and military policy attitudes among White Americans. Our work suggests that religious congregations are important spaces for Whites to potentially engage in dissenting political talk. We find that the degree to which congregations inform military policy attitudes, laity must be involved in political discussions. However, this study also suggests that religious…

  • Religion, Political Discourse, and Activism among Varying Racial/Ethnic Groups in America

    Open AccessR K BrownARTICLEReview of Religious Research2011Cited by: 8References: 39

    The current study assesses the roles that political encouragement from clergy and lay involvement in political discussions play in the political and civic activism of varying racial/ethnic groups. Congregants are likely to participate in varying forms of activism when asked by clergy because of the high levels of trust that Americans have in their clergy and because political appeals are often communicated in a culturally relevant manner. In addi…

  • The Challenge of Religious Pluralism

    Open AccessR K Brown, Ronald E BrownARTICLEReview of Religious Research2011Cited by: 8References: 16

    This research contributes to increasing understanding of the ways in which Christians think about religious pluralism in the United States. It does so by empirically uncovering the relationship between inter-faith contact and the willingness of white Christians to support tenets of religious pluralism. To that end, this study largely intimates that religious identity reinforces a dualistic world view. For white Christians, it is likely that conta…

  • The Connection between Worship Attendance and Racial Segregation Attitudes among White and Black Americans

    Open AccessR K BrownARTICLEReligions2011Cited by: 2References: 18

    The present study finds that, for Whites, worship attendance is associated with heightened support for racial segregation. This has much to do with the fact that the individuals that attend worship service the least, secular and young adults, tend to be more racially progressive. That is, the extent to which secular and Generation X and Y individuals attend worship services as often as others, worship attendance is associated with weakened opposi…

  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Provision of Health-related Programs among American Religious Congregations

    R K Brown, Amy AdamczykARTICLEThe Journal of Sociology & Social…2009Cited by: 2

    Using national data from the Faith Communities Today 2000 survey, the current study builds upon Lincoln and Mamiya's (1990) argument of the civically active Black Church. Originally used to assess the relative activism of Black and White congregations, the current study suggests that Black congregations are more likely to provide health programs than are predominantly White, Hispanic and Asian congregations. The greater involvement of Black congr…

  • Denominational Differences in Support for Race-Based Policies Among White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans

    Open AccessR K BrownARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…2009Cited by: 23References: 12

    This study builds upon past studies of denominational culture and racial attitudes by positioning evangelicals as the basis of comparison when assessing denominational differences in American racial attitudes. The study also attempts to extend the theoretical contribution of religious culture and racial attitudes by assessing support for race-based policies among black, white, Hispanic, and Asian-American evangelical and nonevangelical Protestant…

  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Political Behavior of American Religious Congregations

    R K BrownARTICLESociological Spectrum2009Cited by: 7References: 16

    Using a national sample of congregations, the current study builds upon Lincoln and Mamiya's (1990 Lincoln , C. Eric and Lawrence H. Mamiya. 1990 . The Black Church in the African American Experience . Durham , NC : Duke University Press .[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) argument of the institutional importance of black churches. It does so by suggesting that, all things being equal, black congregations are more likely than are white, Hispanic, and…

  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in Religious Congregation-based Social Service Delivery Efforts

    R K BrownARTICLEThe Journal of Sociology & Social…2008Cited by: 5

    The current study utilizes Swidler's (1986) cultural toolkit theory to explain racial/ethnic differences in American religious congregations' provision of social service programs. This study suggests that black Americans' reliance upon structural tools to assess poverty contributes to their congregations being more heavily involved than majority white congregations in the provision of social services that attempt to make a longer-term impact on c…

  • Voices of the Faithful

    Open AccessR K Brown, Richelle BrownARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2008Cited by: 1