John P Bartkowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John P Bartkowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | John P |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartkowski |
| SIGNATURE | BARTKOWSKI J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 704 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Site engagement in implementation research
Size Matters? Penis Dissatisfaction and Gun Ownership in America
In this study, we formally examine the association between penis size dissatisfaction and gun ownership in America. The primary hypothesis, derived from the psychosexual theory of gun ownership, asserts that men who are more dissatisfied with the size of their penises will be more likely to personally own guns. To test this hypothesis, we used data collected from the 2023 Masculinity, Sexual Health, and Politics ( MSHAP) survey, a national probab…
(Un)holy Smokes? Religion and Traditional and E-Cigarette Use in the United States
Effects of substance use treatment on recidivism for youth in need of treatment
Results of a national survey of substance use treatment services for youth under community supervision
Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy
Sexual Dysfunction and Gun Ownership in America
Although there has been no direct empirical evidence linking sexual dysfunction (SD) with gun ownership, speculation has been widespread and persistent for decades. In this paper, we formally examine the association between SD and gun ownership. Our primary hypothesis, derived from the psychosexual theory of gun ownership, asserts that men experiencing SD are more likely to personally own guns than other men. To test this hypothesis, we used rece…
Substance use prevention services in juvenile justice and behavioral health
Birth Control Battles
Those who fail to learn from history, it is said, are doomed to repeat it. Birth Control Battles is a comprehensive historical analysis of how race, class, and religion intertwined in remarkably complicated ways to shape American reproductive politics from the Depression era into the 1960s. Interestingly, I am writing this review on the same day that the Supreme Court narrowly voted to strike down a Louisiana law designed to impose significant re…
Islamic Strangers
Using nationally representative survey data from the 2011 Pew Muslim American Survey, this study investigates how the combined effects of religiosity, personal networks, and attitudes toward American society shape the subjective identities of Muslims residing in the United States. We draw on social identity theory, Simmel’s notion of the “stranger,” and past research on subjective identity among faith groups to examine U.S. Muslim identity prefer…
Cowboy Christians, by Marie W. Dallam
Evangelicalism seems to have seeped into every nook and cranny of American culture. Solid evidence in support of this conclusion is masterfully provided in Cowboy Christians. This book at once delineates the historical contours of cowboy Christianity as it evolved in the American West and provides a sustained analysis of this cultural phenomenon’s contemporary manifestations. The book paints a compelling and credible portrait of cowboy Christians…
The Arc of Faith-Based Initiatives
A model for rigorously applying the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (Epis) framework in the design and measurement of a large scale collaborative multi-site study
BACKGROUND: This paper describes the means by which a United States National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded cooperative, Juvenile Justice-Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS), utilized an established implementation science framework in conducting a multi-site, multi-research center implementation intervention initiative. The initiative aimed to bolster the ability of juvenile justice agenc…
Using Goal Achievement Training in juvenile justice settings to improve substance use services for youth on community supervision
BACKGROUND: The link between substance use and involvement in the juvenile justice system has been well established. Justice-involved youth tend to have higher rates of drug use than their non-offending peers. At the same time, continued use can contribute to an elevated risk of recidivism, which leads to further, and oftentimes more serious, involvement with the juvenile justice system. Because of these high rates of use, the juvenile justice sy…
When Faith, Race, and Hate Collide
This study explores the extent to which the spate of church burnings that occurred throughout the South during the 1990s may have been influenced by local religious ecologies, diverse forms of civic engagement, and broader community support for racial animus that we call local hate cultures (e.g., prior hate crime incidents, hate group presence). We use county-level data from a variety of sources to determine the degree to which church arsons wer…
Beard, Mary Ritter (1876–1958)
Mary Ritter Beard was a historian, social critic, and first wave feminist. She was also a proponent of women's suffrage in the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century. Beard's work highlighted women's contributions to American society and cultures across the world. She was also a social reformer who fought for women's rights and organized working women in the early twentieth‐century United States
Conservative Protestantism and attitudes toward corporal punishment, 1986-2014
Publishing in Academic Journals
Religion and Gender Inequality
The family has been famously dubbed a "gender factory" for its foundational role in reproducing social inequalities between men and women (Berk 1985). Given that the principal mission of religious organizations entails the support of families, to what degree is religion an institutional ally in the reproduction of gender differences in the domestic realm? Even more broadly, does religion reinforce gendered systems of privilege in other societal c…
Faith and Money
Finding the Sacred in Unexpected Places
This address examines the complex processes whereby cultural understandings of the sacred and, consequently, religious identity are negotiated in the contemporary social world. Two key processes of negotiation are delineated, namely, religious evanescence and religious evocation. Religious evanescence reflects efforts to deemphasize or sever connections to the sacred. By contrast, religious evocation consists of activities that emphasize or enhan…
The Risk of Overweight and Obesity among Latter-Day Saints
Despite evidence of the salutary effects of religion on physical health, relatively little attention has been paid to the influence of religiosity on the risk of overweight and obesity. Our study examines this relationship with specific attention to the influence of Latter-day Saint (LDS, Mormon) affiliation and attendance on bodyweight status. Latter-day Saints make an excellent test case because LDS proscriptions against the consumption of alco…
The role of cohabitation in remarriage
Previous research has demonstrated that the effects of postdivorce cohabitation on the quality of intimate relationships are similar to those of premarital cohabitation. Thus, like premarital cohabitation in first marriage, postdivorce cohabitation in general and multi-partnered postdivorce cohabitation in particular delay remarriage and diminish relationship quality (i.e. undermine happiness and stability). However, such findings are based on su…
From the Sanctuary to the Slammer
Current survey research reveals that religious conservatives exhibit more punitive attitudes toward criminal offenders than their nonreligious and mainline counterparts. Despite the pervasiveness of conservative Protestant support for the punitive treatment of criminal offenders, evangelical-run prison ministry programs have proliferated in recent decades. This study uses in-depth interviews to examine the motivations of prison ministry workers. …
Sex and Gender Traditionalism Among Conservative Protestants
Recent years have witnessed the resurgence of conservative Protestantism and its adherents' advocacy of gender traditionalism. Scholarship has traced conservative Protestant women's support for gender traditionalism to biblical inerrancy while linking conservative Protestant men's support for gender traditionalism to their denominational affiliation. Our study revisits this issue with more recent data, more sophisticated analytical techniques (st…
Veiled Submission
To Veil or Not to Veil
The increasingly pervasive practice of veiling among Muslim women has stimulated a great deal of scholarly investigation and debate. This study brings empirical evidence to bear on current debates about the meaning of the veil in Islam. This article first examines the conflicting meanings of the veil among Muslim religious elites and Islamic feminists. Although the dominant gender discourse among Muslim elites strongly favors this cultural practi…
Distant Patriarchs or Expressive Dads? The Discourse and Practice of Fathering in Conservative Protestant Families
Despite the burgeoning research literature on paternal involvement, the relationship between religion and fatherhood has received remarkably little attention from empirical researchers. Our investigation illuminates this understudied dimension of fathering by examining how conservative Protestant gender ideologies impact paternal involvement in evangelical households. Our study begins with an examination of insider documents—nemely, gender and fa…
Conservative Protestantism and the Division of Household Labor among Married Couples
To date, few studies have examined the role of religion, especially conservative (i.e., fundamentalist and evangelical) Protestantism, in shaping the division of housework. The authors begin by reviewing popular writings on gender and family life by contemporary conservative Protestants, focusing on the competing discourses of traditionalist and egalitarian evangelicals. Then, the authors analyze data on a large U.S. sample of married couples fro…
Attribution Style and Public Policy Attitudes Toward Gay Rights
Objective. This study examines the influence of beliefs about the cause of homo‐sexuality on public policy attitudes concerning gay rights. Methods. Using data from the 1995 Oklahoma City Survey, we examine how beliefs about homosexuality as either a lifestyle choice or biological predisposition affect levels of support for gay rights. Results. Consistent with current debates over gay rights, our study reveals a strong positive association betwee…
Religion and child development
Images of God and Public Support for Capital Punishment
This study argues that the nature and intensity of a person's relationship with God creates a transposable cognitive schema that shapes people's views toward public policies such as executing convicted murderers. In this context, we investigate whether Americans who report having a close personal relationship with a loving God are less likely to support the death penalty. We hypothesize that such a relationship tempers the tendency to see punitiv…
The Timing of First Marriage
Using survey data from a nationally representative sample, this article explores how marriage timing varies across major religious denominations. Survival analysis indicates that net of statistical controls, Catholics, moderate Protestants, conservative Protestants, and Mormons marry significantly earlier than their unaffiliated counterparts. This holds true for women and men. However, no statistical differences emerge between Jews, liberal Prote…
Divergent Models of Childrearing in Popular Manuals
While most recent discussions of “the battle over the family” have focused on conflicts over gender roles, this study focuses on contemporary debates over childrearing practices. This work centers on the challenge to mainstream “expert” childrearing ideas posed by James Dobson and other conservative Protestant family advocates. Our study compares the recommendations of mainstream childrearing experts with those advanced by their conservative Prot…
Are There Religious Variations in Domestic Violence
Religious variations in domestic violence remain understudied. Arguments are developed linking aspects of religious affiliation, practice, theology, and couples' religious (dis)similarities with domestic violence. These relationships are then examined via gender-specific models of data from the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH-1). The authors find that regular attendance at religious services is inversely associa…
Conservative Protestantism and the Parental Use of Corporal Punishment
Journal Article Conservative Protestantism and the Parental Use of Corporal Punishment Get access Christopher G. Ellison, Christopher G. Ellison University of Texas at Austin Direct correspondence to Christopher G. Ellison, Department of Sociology, 336 Burdine Hall, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1088. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John P. Bartkowski, John P. Bartkowski University of Tex…
Debating Patriarchy
Theoretical paradigms that have called attention to the contemporary over the family suggest that religious conservatives in general, and evangelical Protestants in particular, are among the most vociferous defenders of a traditional patriarchal family structure. However, a handful of recent inquiries on contemporary evangelical spousal roles has suggested that conservative Protestants are not unanimous in their support for a patriarchal family s…
Sex and Gender Traditionalism Among Conservative Protestants
Recent years have witnessed the resurgence of conservative Protestantism and its adherents' advocacy of gender traditionalism. Scholarship has traced conservative Protestant women's support for gender traditionalism to biblical inerrancy while linking conservative Protestant men's support for gender traditionalism to their denominational affiliation. Our study revisits this issue with more recent data, more sophisticated analytical techniques (st…
Breaking Walls, Raising Fences
Journal Article Breaking Walls, Raising Fences: Masculinity, Intimacy, and Accountability among the Promise Keepers Get access John P. Bartkowski John P. Bartkowski * Mississippi State University * Direct correspondence to John P. Bartkowski, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works…
One step forward, one step back
The Role of Cohabitation in Remarriage
Using 3 subsamples of remarried respondents (n =1,583, 971, and 926) in the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households, this study investigates how different types of cohabitation, especially postdivorce cohabitation, affect the timing and quality of remarriage in the United States. Ordinary Least Squares regression analysis indicates that postdivorce cohabitation in general and postdivorce cohabitation with multiple partners in…
Conservative Protestant Child Discipline
Journal Article Conservative Protestant Child Discipline: The Case of Parental Yelling Get access John P. Bartkowski, John P. Bartkowski Mississippi State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W. Bradford Wilcox W. Bradford Wilcox Princeton University Please direct correspondence to W. Bradford Wilcox, Center for Research on Child Well-being, 221 Wallace Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544…
Conservative Protestantism and attitudes toward corporal punishment, 1986-2014
Changing of the gods
A growing number of recent studies have called attention to a series of striking contradictions in contemporary evangelical family relations. This study draws on insights from Michel Foucault's theory of discourse in order to investigate the historical forces which underlie these contemporary contradictions. An indashdepth analysis of various secondary historical sources reveals that contemporary evangelicals are the heirs to a two-century-old re…
When Faith, Race, and Hate Collide
This study explores the extent to which the spate of church burnings that occurred throughout the South during the 1990s may have been influenced by local religious ecologies, diverse forms of civic engagement, and broader community support for racial animus that we call local hate cultures (e.g., prior hate crime incidents, hate group presence). We use county-level data from a variety of sources to determine the degree to which church arsons wer…
Claims-Making and Typifications of Voodoo as a Deviant Religion
A small number of researchers and social commentators have called attention to negative perceptions about voodoo in U.S. cultural discourse. Yet, remarkably little scholarship has examined the nature, scope, and source of these perceptions in a systematic fashion. In this paper, I use key insights from social constructionism to examine three different typifications of voodoo as broadcast by the U.S. news media. I begin by outlining the constructi…
Publishing in Academic Journals
Food Pantries and the Populations They Serve
Although it is often assumed that food pantries are managed by middle-class directors whose social background differs significantly from that of their target populations, no systematic empirical evidence concerning this issue exists to date. Moreover, scholarship has yet to explore the extent to which the presumably distinctive social positions of pantry directors and clients might result in the stigmatization of poverty, social welfare programs,…
Elusive Togetherness
Seasonality of Sexual Debut
This study brings together insights from two bodies of scholarship that have heretofore existed as parallel research literatures, namely, research on the social antecedents of sexual debut and scholarship on the seasonality of coital activity. The authors use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to discover two seasonal peaks in the reported onset of first intercourse, one in the early summertime months for adolescents in general …
Spare the Rod…, or Spare the Child? Divergent Perspectives on Conservative Protestant Child Discipline
Divergent Models of Childrearing in Popular Manuals
While most recent discussions of “the battle over the family” have focused on conflicts over gender roles, this study focuses on contemporary debates over childrearing practices. This work centers on the challenge to mainstream “expert” childrearing ideas posed by James Dobson and other conservative Protestant family advocates. Our study compares the recommendations of mainstream childrearing experts with those advanced by their conservative Prot…
Conservative Protestantism and the Parental Use of Corporal Punishment
Journal Article Conservative Protestantism and the Parental Use of Corporal Punishment Get access Christopher G. Ellison, Christopher G. Ellison University of Texas at Austin Direct correspondence to Christopher G. Ellison, Department of Sociology, 336 Burdine Hall, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1088. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John P. Bartkowski, John P. Bartkowski University of Tex…
God Meets Gaia in Austin, Texas
Gender Equality and American Jews
Debating Patriarchy
Theoretical paradigms that have called attention to the contemporary over the family suggest that religious conservatives in general, and evangelical Protestants in particular, are among the most vociferous defenders of a traditional patriarchal family structure. However, a handful of recent inquiries on contemporary evangelical spousal roles has suggested that conservative Protestants are not unanimous in their support for a patriarchal family s…
Changing of the gods
A growing number of recent studies have called attention to a series of striking contradictions in contemporary evangelical family relations. This study draws on insights from Michel Foucault's theory of discourse in order to investigate the historical forces which underlie these contemporary contradictions. An indashdepth analysis of various secondary historical sources reveals that contemporary evangelicals are the heirs to a two-century-old re…
Claims-Making and Typifications of Voodoo as a Deviant Religion
A small number of researchers and social commentators have called attention to negative perceptions about voodoo in U.S. cultural discourse. Yet, remarkably little scholarship has examined the nature, scope, and source of these perceptions in a systematic fashion. In this paper, I use key insights from social constructionism to examine three different typifications of voodoo as broadcast by the U.S. news media. I begin by outlining the constructi…
One step forward, one step back
Are There Religious Variations in Domestic Violence
Religious variations in domestic violence remain understudied. Arguments are developed linking aspects of religious affiliation, practice, theology, and couples' religious (dis)similarities with domestic violence. These relationships are then examined via gender-specific models of data from the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH-1). The authors find that regular attendance at religious services is inversely associa…
Re-Forming the Body
Disquiet in the Land
Contemporary American Religion
Breaking Walls, Raising Fences
Journal Article Breaking Walls, Raising Fences: Masculinity, Intimacy, and Accountability among the Promise Keepers Get access John P. Bartkowski John P. Bartkowski * Mississippi State University * Direct correspondence to John P. Bartkowski, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works…
Conservative Protestant Child Discipline
Journal Article Conservative Protestant Child Discipline: The Case of Parental Yelling Get access John P. Bartkowski, John P. Bartkowski Mississippi State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W. Bradford Wilcox W. Bradford Wilcox Princeton University Please direct correspondence to W. Bradford Wilcox, Center for Research on Child Well-being, 221 Wallace Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544…
To Veil or Not to Veil
The increasingly pervasive practice of veiling among Muslim women has stimulated a great deal of scholarly investigation and debate. This study brings empirical evidence to bear on current debates about the meaning of the veil in Islam. This article first examines the conflicting meanings of the veil among Muslim religious elites and Islamic feminists. Although the dominant gender discourse among Muslim elites strongly favors this cultural practi…
Distant Patriarchs or Expressive Dads? The Discourse and Practice of Fathering in Conservative Protestant Families
Despite the burgeoning research literature on paternal involvement, the relationship between religion and fatherhood has received remarkably little attention from empirical researchers. Our investigation illuminates this understudied dimension of fathering by examining how conservative Protestant gender ideologies impact paternal involvement in evangelical households. Our study begins with an examination of insider documents—nemely, gender and fa…
Remaking the Godly Marriage
Remaking the Godly Marriage
Remaking the Godly Marriage provides a careful and insightful portrait of gender in contemporary conservative evangelicalism that would serve as an accessible text for seminars on gender and religion or contemporary evangelicalism. Most significantly, Bartkowski's focus on how identity and responsibilities are carefully negotiated between men and women takes seriously the sociological claim that gender is relational and thereby fills a gap in the…
Financing American Religion
Conservative Protestantism and the Division of Household Labor among Married Couples
To date, few studies have examined the role of religion, especially conservative (i.e., fundamentalist and evangelical) Protestantism, in shaping the division of housework. The authors begin by reviewing popular writings on gender and family life by contemporary conservative Protestants, focusing on the competing discourses of traditionalist and egalitarian evangelicals. Then, the authors analyze data on a large U.S. sample of married couples fro…
Seasonality of Sexual Debut
This study brings together insights from two bodies of scholarship that have heretofore existed as parallel research literatures, namely, research on the social antecedents of sexual debut and scholarship on the seasonality of coital activity. The authors use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to discover two seasonal peaks in the reported onset of first intercourse, one in the early summertime months for adolescents in general …
Veiled Submission
Private Food Assistance in the Deep South
In recent years,food banking has emerged as an important tool in America's fight against hunger and malnutrition. At the same time, the charitable choice provision of 1996 welfare reform law has significantly expanded the opportunity for public-private partnerships in the provision of social services. Given the new opportunities ushered in by this legislation, this study examines the knowledge that food pantry directors in Alabama and Mississippi…
Attribution Style and Public Policy Attitudes Toward Gay Rights
Objective. This study examines the influence of beliefs about the cause of homo‐sexuality on public policy attitudes concerning gay rights. Methods. Using data from the 1995 Oklahoma City Survey, we examine how beliefs about homosexuality as either a lifestyle choice or biological predisposition affect levels of support for gay rights. Results. Consistent with current debates over gay rights, our study reveals a strong positive association betwee…
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