Jacqui Frost
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacqui Frost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacqui |
| FAMILY NAME | Frost |
| SIGNATURE | FROST J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-2481-6294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Varieties of Nonreligious Experience
Religious commitment has long been associated with health and happiness in the United States. However, despite a period of drastic decline in religious affiliation among Americans, much less is known about how nonreligious commitments promote wellbeing. We use novel measures that capture variation among the nonreligious to assess whether aspects of nonreligious experience might replicate religion's health-promoting features. We analyse how wellbe…
Divine Purpose? Religion, Race, and Attitudes Toward Life Extension Technology
There is a growing sociological literature examining how religion shapes attitudes toward science and technology. However, sociologists have done little to explore how attitudes toward religion and science shape support for end-of-life and life extension technologies. Past research suggests that those most likely to be interested in life extension technologies are nonreligious and White. However, we draw on theories in sociology of religion to ex…
Ritualizing Nonreligion
As the religious landscape in the United States continues to change, and as more Americans leave organized religion, scholars have raised important questions about the role of ritual in secular spaces and whether or not religious decline will result in a decline in meaningful ritual practices. As ritual is often conflated with religion, it is often also assumed that nonreligious people are uninterested in rituals because they are committed to sci…
Patterns of Perceived Hostility and Identity Concealment among Self-Identified Atheists
Researchers have produced important findings regarding the types of stigma associated with nonreligion, particularly atheism. However, while numerous studies analyze who is more or less likely to identify as an atheist given that stigma, less is known about how self-identified atheists manage the stigma associated with their identity. This study uses new survey data from a nationally representative sample of US adults, with an oversample of indiv…
The Role of Region and Religious Tradition in Predicting Individuals' Expressions of Faith in the Workplace
While many variables might influence an individual's willingness to express their faith in the workplace, the role of regional context has not been fully considered. The different geographical regions in the U.S. consist of unique demographics and cultures that could shape an individual's expression of faith at work. Moreover, these regional effects might be moderated by an individual's specific religious tradition. Using data from a survey of U.…
The Association between Religious Discrimination and Health
Research finds that experiences of religious discrimination are often associated with poorer health outcomes. However, there remain important questions to consider gaps, including whether religious discrimination has similar health impacts on religious minority groups and religious majority groups, whether religious discrimination is equally harmful for both mental and physical health, and whether specific types of discrimination have different i…
What Makes Life Meaningful? Combinations of Meaningful Commitments Among Nonreligious and Religious Americans
Having a sense that one's life is meaningful is related to, but distinct from, happiness, satisfaction, or living a moral life. Scholars across disciplines have investigated the role of religion in providing meaning or questioned whether religious decline prompts a crisis of meaninglessness. We use national survey data (2019, N = 1,326) to identify the overall patterns in what people find meaningful in general and how they spend time in activitie…
Situating Spirituality
I Believe in Taking Care of People
Secularization, by Charles Turner
How Our Paradigms Limit Our Measures
Response to: Podcast with Donovan Schaefer, 28 November 2016Interviewed by Christopher R. CotterTranscribed by Catrin J. SawfordAudio and transcript available at: https://religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/is-secularism-a-world-religion
Certainty, Uncertainty, or Indifference? Examining Variation in the Identity Narratives of Nonreligious Americans
Much research in social science concludes that uncertainty surrounding individual beliefs and identities is negative and anxiety-inducing, and that people are continuously searching for certainty. In the context of rising rates of religious disaffiliation in the United States, and the rise of social and political organizations created to promote nonreligious beliefs and values, the nonreligious offer a strategic case to explore the meaning and li…
Rejecting Rejection Identities
From Existential to Social Understandings of Risk
Across many social contexts, women are found to be more religious than men. Risk preference theory proposes that women are less likely than men to accept the existential risks associated with nonbelief. Building on previous critiques of this theory, we argue that the idea of risk is relevant to understanding the relationship between gender and religiosity if risk is understood not as existential, but as social. The research on existential risk fo…
Intersectionality and Power
Distinctiveness Reconsidered
Are conservative Protestants distinct in their support for individualistic explanations of racial inequality in America? Past research has generated contradictory findings on this question, along with debates about the best measure of evangelicalism and the factors that moderate religious influences on racial attitudes. Using data from the nationally representative Boundaries in the American Mosaic Project (2014), we examine how structural locati…
Palatines, Liberty, and Property
A Perfect Freedom
Church of England (the South) or several churches (New England and New York) contrasted Pennsylvanians' voluntary gifts with their situation.Pennsylvania became a symbol of a new republican pattern of religious liberty in opposition to a single or multiple establishment.The policies that New York and the southern states adopted before 1800 and that eventually came to prevail in New England resemble Pennsylvania's.After 1800 it was not that other …
A Perfect Freedom
Church of England (the South) or several churches (New England and New York) contrasted Pennsylvanians' voluntary gifts with their situation.Pennsylvania became a symbol of a new republican pattern of religious liberty in opposition to a single or multiple establishment.The policies that New York and the southern states adopted before 1800 and that eventually came to prevail in New England resemble Pennsylvania's.After 1800 it was not that other …
A Perfect Freedom
The Quakers
Journal Article The Quakers. By Hugh Barbour and J. William Frost. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xiv + 409 pp. $65.00.) Get access Edwin B. Bronner Edwin B. Bronner Haverford College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1235–1236, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936603 Published: 01 March 1990
John Woolman
From Existential to Social Understandings of Risk
Across many social contexts, women are found to be more religious than men. Risk preference theory proposes that women are less likely than men to accept the existential risks associated with nonbelief. Building on previous critiques of this theory, we argue that the idea of risk is relevant to understanding the relationship between gender and religiosity if risk is understood not as existential, but as social. The research on existential risk fo…
Distinctiveness Reconsidered
Are conservative Protestants distinct in their support for individualistic explanations of racial inequality in America? Past research has generated contradictory findings on this question, along with debates about the best measure of evangelicalism and the factors that moderate religious influences on racial attitudes. Using data from the nationally representative Boundaries in the American Mosaic Project (2014), we examine how structural locati…
Certainty, Uncertainty, or Indifference? Examining Variation in the Identity Narratives of Nonreligious Americans
Much research in social science concludes that uncertainty surrounding individual beliefs and identities is negative and anxiety-inducing, and that people are continuously searching for certainty. In the context of rising rates of religious disaffiliation in the United States, and the rise of social and political organizations created to promote nonreligious beliefs and values, the nonreligious offer a strategic case to explore the meaning and li…
What Makes Life Meaningful? Combinations of Meaningful Commitments Among Nonreligious and Religious Americans
Having a sense that one's life is meaningful is related to, but distinct from, happiness, satisfaction, or living a moral life. Scholars across disciplines have investigated the role of religion in providing meaning or questioned whether religious decline prompts a crisis of meaninglessness. We use national survey data (2019, N = 1,326) to identify the overall patterns in what people find meaningful in general and how they spend time in activitie…
The Association between Religious Discrimination and Health
Research finds that experiences of religious discrimination are often associated with poorer health outcomes. However, there remain important questions to consider gaps, including whether religious discrimination has similar health impacts on religious minority groups and religious majority groups, whether religious discrimination is equally harmful for both mental and physical health, and whether specific types of discrimination have different i…
I Believe in Taking Care of People
The Role of Region and Religious Tradition in Predicting Individuals' Expressions of Faith in the Workplace
While many variables might influence an individual's willingness to express their faith in the workplace, the role of regional context has not been fully considered. The different geographical regions in the U.S. consist of unique demographics and cultures that could shape an individual's expression of faith at work. Moreover, these regional effects might be moderated by an individual's specific religious tradition. Using data from a survey of U.…
Intersectionality and Power
John Woolman
The Quakers
Journal Article The Quakers. By Hugh Barbour and J. William Frost. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xiv + 409 pp. $65.00.) Get access Edwin B. Bronner Edwin B. Bronner Haverford College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1235–1236, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936603 Published: 01 March 1990
A Perfect Freedom
Church of England (the South) or several churches (New England and New York) contrasted Pennsylvanians' voluntary gifts with their situation.Pennsylvania became a symbol of a new republican pattern of religious liberty in opposition to a single or multiple establishment.The policies that New York and the southern states adopted before 1800 and that eventually came to prevail in New England resemble Pennsylvania's.After 1800 it was not that other …
A Perfect Freedom
A Perfect Freedom
Church of England (the South) or several churches (New England and New York) contrasted Pennsylvanians' voluntary gifts with their situation.Pennsylvania became a symbol of a new republican pattern of religious liberty in opposition to a single or multiple establishment.The policies that New York and the southern states adopted before 1800 and that eventually came to prevail in New England resemble Pennsylvania's.After 1800 it was not that other …
Palatines, Liberty, and Property
Rejecting Rejection Identities
From Existential to Social Understandings of Risk
Across many social contexts, women are found to be more religious than men. Risk preference theory proposes that women are less likely than men to accept the existential risks associated with nonbelief. Building on previous critiques of this theory, we argue that the idea of risk is relevant to understanding the relationship between gender and religiosity if risk is understood not as existential, but as social. The research on existential risk fo…
Intersectionality and Power
Distinctiveness Reconsidered
Are conservative Protestants distinct in their support for individualistic explanations of racial inequality in America? Past research has generated contradictory findings on this question, along with debates about the best measure of evangelicalism and the factors that moderate religious influences on racial attitudes. Using data from the nationally representative Boundaries in the American Mosaic Project (2014), we examine how structural locati…
How Our Paradigms Limit Our Measures
Response to: Podcast with Donovan Schaefer, 28 November 2016Interviewed by Christopher R. CotterTranscribed by Catrin J. SawfordAudio and transcript available at: https://religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/is-secularism-a-world-religion
Certainty, Uncertainty, or Indifference? Examining Variation in the Identity Narratives of Nonreligious Americans
Much research in social science concludes that uncertainty surrounding individual beliefs and identities is negative and anxiety-inducing, and that people are continuously searching for certainty. In the context of rising rates of religious disaffiliation in the United States, and the rise of social and political organizations created to promote nonreligious beliefs and values, the nonreligious offer a strategic case to explore the meaning and li…
Secularization, by Charles Turner
Situating Spirituality
I Believe in Taking Care of People
Ritualizing Nonreligion
As the religious landscape in the United States continues to change, and as more Americans leave organized religion, scholars have raised important questions about the role of ritual in secular spaces and whether or not religious decline will result in a decline in meaningful ritual practices. As ritual is often conflated with religion, it is often also assumed that nonreligious people are uninterested in rituals because they are committed to sci…
Patterns of Perceived Hostility and Identity Concealment among Self-Identified Atheists
Researchers have produced important findings regarding the types of stigma associated with nonreligion, particularly atheism. However, while numerous studies analyze who is more or less likely to identify as an atheist given that stigma, less is known about how self-identified atheists manage the stigma associated with their identity. This study uses new survey data from a nationally representative sample of US adults, with an oversample of indiv…
The Role of Region and Religious Tradition in Predicting Individuals' Expressions of Faith in the Workplace
While many variables might influence an individual's willingness to express their faith in the workplace, the role of regional context has not been fully considered. The different geographical regions in the U.S. consist of unique demographics and cultures that could shape an individual's expression of faith at work. Moreover, these regional effects might be moderated by an individual's specific religious tradition. Using data from a survey of U.…
The Association between Religious Discrimination and Health
Research finds that experiences of religious discrimination are often associated with poorer health outcomes. However, there remain important questions to consider gaps, including whether religious discrimination has similar health impacts on religious minority groups and religious majority groups, whether religious discrimination is equally harmful for both mental and physical health, and whether specific types of discrimination have different i…
What Makes Life Meaningful? Combinations of Meaningful Commitments Among Nonreligious and Religious Americans
Having a sense that one's life is meaningful is related to, but distinct from, happiness, satisfaction, or living a moral life. Scholars across disciplines have investigated the role of religion in providing meaning or questioned whether religious decline prompts a crisis of meaninglessness. We use national survey data (2019, N = 1,326) to identify the overall patterns in what people find meaningful in general and how they spend time in activitie…
Divine Purpose? Religion, Race, and Attitudes Toward Life Extension Technology
There is a growing sociological literature examining how religion shapes attitudes toward science and technology. However, sociologists have done little to explore how attitudes toward religion and science shape support for end-of-life and life extension technologies. Past research suggests that those most likely to be interested in life extension technologies are nonreligious and White. However, we draw on theories in sociology of religion to ex…
Varieties of Nonreligious Experience
Religious commitment has long been associated with health and happiness in the United States. However, despite a period of drastic decline in religious affiliation among Americans, much less is known about how nonreligious commitments promote wellbeing. We use novel measures that capture variation among the nonreligious to assess whether aspects of nonreligious experience might replicate religion's health-promoting features. We analyse how wellbe…
Sociology (15 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)