Becka A Alper

Biographic Data

ID210187
NAMEBecka A Alper
GIVEN NAMESBecka A
FAMILY NAMEAlper
SIGNATUREALPER B A
AFFILIATIONSPurdue University West Lafayette
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS12
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Introduction to the Special Issue

    Open AccessAlan Cooperman, Becka A AlperARTICLEContemporary Jewry2023References: 1

  • Religious Population Share and Religious Identity Salience

    Becka A Alper, Daniel V A OlsonCHAPTERSociology of Religion2019

    Religious identity salience is an internal phenomenon and is therefore less subject to monitoring and sanctioning by others, were seek to determine whether religious identity salience responds to changes in population share in the same way as more visible aspects of religious commitment. If low Jewish identity salience is the same as assimilation it would be important to know whether Jewish population share has a separate negative effect on Jewis…

  • Anti-pornography Narratives as Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

    Open AccessJ N Thomas, Becka A Alper et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research2017Cited by: 1References: 79

    Using a mixed methods design that compares quantitative content analysis of popular religious magazines with statistical analysis of national survey data, we show how the anti-pornography narratives that are predominant within different religious traditions can influence the effect that pornography viewing has on the marital happiness of husbands within those traditions. More specifically, we propose a causal chain that explains how meso-level an…

  • Religious Population Share and Religious Identity Salience

    Becka A Alper, Daniel V A OlsonARTICLESociology of Religion2013Cited by: 5References: 37

    Survey data from Jews find that Jewish population density is positively related to rates of synagogue attendance and most other behavioral measures of religious commitment. We ask whether, after controlling for higher rates of religious practice in more Jewish areas, Jewish population concentration has its own separate independent negative effect on Jewish identity salience. Using the 2001 National Jewish Population Survey, we present three main …

  • Do Jews Feel Like Outsiders in America? The Impact of Anti-Semitism, Friendships, and Religious Geography

    Open AccessBecka A Alper, Daniel V A OlsonARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…2011Cited by: 6References: 10

    While once the archetypical outsiders, most Jews today do not feel like outsiders in the United States. Using the 2001 National Jewish Population Survey, we examine the factors that differentiate those who feel like outsiders from those who do not. We find that feeling like an outsider is largely associated with having experienced anti-Semitism, the number of Jews living nearby, the proportion of a respondent's friends’ that are Jewish, and wheth…