Scott Draper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Draper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Draper |
| SIGNATURE | DRAPER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1976-9373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Effervescence Accelerators: Barriers to Outsiders in Christian Interaction Rituals
In interaction ritual theory, barriers to outsiders are cues that communicate who is and is not excluded from a ritual. Prior research on religious rituals has established strong support for the hypothesis that barriers promote collective effervescence and social solidarity. Questions remain, though, regarding how this social dynamic impacts the practices, identities, missions, and conflicts of congregations who strive to be inclusive. We conduct…
Religious Interaction Ritual: The Microsociology of the Spirit
Scott Draper’s book offers a rich theoretically driven study of religion, specifically the role of ritual. The study draws largely upon the work of Randall Collins and his theory of interaction ritual. While Collins work focuses on a range of ritual activities, he offers little empirical work on religion. This is where Draper’s book makes its mark and offers an important contribution to the sociology of religion. Draper’s main argument is that ri…
The preeminent sacred symbol: Theorizing image of God outcomes
Images of God are the most consequential religious beliefs known to social science. Although sociologists have identified a wide and diverse range of outcomes of imagining different versions of God, more work is needed to show how these outcomes fit together within a multistep theoretical framework. To lay groundwork for such a theory, the present paper (a) briefly summarizes major theoretical perspectives on sources and outcomes of images of God…
Effervescence and Solidarity in Religious Organizations
In the ritual theories of Durkheim and Collins, collective effervescence is the engine that drives social solidarity. I use data from religious organizations to perform a rare test of this hypothesis. In addition, four other hypotheses from Collins's interaction ritual theory are tested regarding ritual dynamics that are expected to promote effervescence and solidarity. Congregational data from the 2001 United States Congregational Life Survey re…
Images of a Loving God and Sense of Meaning in Life
Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion
Journal Article Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion Get access Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion, by PHIL ZUCKERMAN. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, 240 pp.; $24.95 USD (cloth). Scott Draper Scott Draper The College of Idaho [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 73, Issue 3, AUTUMN 2012, Pages 354–355, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srs…
What Will the Neighbors Think? The Effect of Moral Communities on Cohabitation
In this study, we analyze the relationship between county-level religious adherence rates and county-level cohabitation rates in the year 2000. Based on the concept of moral communities, we test hypotheses that higher rates of affiliation with certain religious traditions and lower levels of religious heterogeneity will correlate with lower rates of cohabitation. The analysis consists of data from two sources: the 2000 U.S. Census and the 2000 Re…
Angelic Belief as American Folk Religion 1
Belief in angels and their intervention in the material world is prevalent in the United States. Theoretically, the concept of folk religion offers an instructive lens into the popularity of these beliefs, which exist inside, outside, and across official religious doctrines, and are therefore able to transcend the boundaries of specific religious traditions by appealing to a diverse array of believers. Empirical analyses from a recent national su…
Seeing the Light: Religious Colleges in Twenty-First-Century America by Samuel Schuman
Diverse Supernatural Portfolios: Certitude, Exclusivity, and the Curvilinear Relationship Between Religiosity and Paranormal Beliefs
Studies have attempted to understand the association between more conventional supernatural (religious) beliefs and practices and less conventional “paranormal” supernatural beliefs. Some have posited that the two comprise incompatible cultural spheres and belief systems, while others have argued that supernatural religious beliefs are “small steps” toward less conventional paranormal views (such as belief in astrology and telekinesis). We build …
Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism
Journal Article Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism Get access Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism, by JONATHAN L. WALTON. New York: New York University Press, 2009, 283 pp.; $20.49 USD (paper), $75.00 USD (cloth). Scott Draper Scott Draper Baylor University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 71, Issue 4, WINTER 2010, Pages 483–48…
Sunday Celluloid: Visual Media and Protestant Boundaries With Secular Culture
We examine how ministers in two religious traditions use discourse on secular visual media as a means of establishing symbolic group boundaries. We compare content in 100 evangelical and mainline Protestant sermons, each of which makes at least one reference to secular cinema. We find that mainline ministers largely promote “expanding” boundaries with secular culture, that evangelical ministers promote “contracting” and “expanding” boundaries in …
Images of a Loving God and Sense of Meaning in Life
Effervescence and Solidarity in Religious Organizations
In the ritual theories of Durkheim and Collins, collective effervescence is the engine that drives social solidarity. I use data from religious organizations to perform a rare test of this hypothesis. In addition, four other hypotheses from Collins's interaction ritual theory are tested regarding ritual dynamics that are expected to promote effervescence and solidarity. Congregational data from the 2001 United States Congregational Life Survey re…
What Will the Neighbors Think? The Effect of Moral Communities on Cohabitation
In this study, we analyze the relationship between county-level religious adherence rates and county-level cohabitation rates in the year 2000. Based on the concept of moral communities, we test hypotheses that higher rates of affiliation with certain religious traditions and lower levels of religious heterogeneity will correlate with lower rates of cohabitation. The analysis consists of data from two sources: the 2000 U.S. Census and the 2000 Re…
Diverse Supernatural Portfolios: Certitude, Exclusivity, and the Curvilinear Relationship Between Religiosity and Paranormal Beliefs
Studies have attempted to understand the association between more conventional supernatural (religious) beliefs and practices and less conventional “paranormal” supernatural beliefs. Some have posited that the two comprise incompatible cultural spheres and belief systems, while others have argued that supernatural religious beliefs are “small steps” toward less conventional paranormal views (such as belief in astrology and telekinesis). We build …
Angelic Belief as American Folk Religion 1
Belief in angels and their intervention in the material world is prevalent in the United States. Theoretically, the concept of folk religion offers an instructive lens into the popularity of these beliefs, which exist inside, outside, and across official religious doctrines, and are therefore able to transcend the boundaries of specific religious traditions by appealing to a diverse array of believers. Empirical analyses from a recent national su…
The preeminent sacred symbol: Theorizing image of God outcomes
Images of God are the most consequential religious beliefs known to social science. Although sociologists have identified a wide and diverse range of outcomes of imagining different versions of God, more work is needed to show how these outcomes fit together within a multistep theoretical framework. To lay groundwork for such a theory, the present paper (a) briefly summarizes major theoretical perspectives on sources and outcomes of images of God…
Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion
Journal Article Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion Get access Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion, by PHIL ZUCKERMAN. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, 240 pp.; $24.95 USD (cloth). Scott Draper Scott Draper The College of Idaho [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 73, Issue 3, AUTUMN 2012, Pages 354–355, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srs…
Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism
Journal Article Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism Get access Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism, by JONATHAN L. WALTON. New York: New York University Press, 2009, 283 pp.; $20.49 USD (paper), $75.00 USD (cloth). Scott Draper Scott Draper Baylor University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 71, Issue 4, WINTER 2010, Pages 483–48…
Effervescence Accelerators: Barriers to Outsiders in Christian Interaction Rituals
In interaction ritual theory, barriers to outsiders are cues that communicate who is and is not excluded from a ritual. Prior research on religious rituals has established strong support for the hypothesis that barriers promote collective effervescence and social solidarity. Questions remain, though, regarding how this social dynamic impacts the practices, identities, missions, and conflicts of congregations who strive to be inclusive. We conduct…
Sunday Celluloid: Visual Media and Protestant Boundaries With Secular Culture
We examine how ministers in two religious traditions use discourse on secular visual media as a means of establishing symbolic group boundaries. We compare content in 100 evangelical and mainline Protestant sermons, each of which makes at least one reference to secular cinema. We find that mainline ministers largely promote “expanding” boundaries with secular culture, that evangelical ministers promote “contracting” and “expanding” boundaries in …
Seeing the Light: Religious Colleges in Twenty-First-Century America by Samuel Schuman
Diverse Supernatural Portfolios: Certitude, Exclusivity, and the Curvilinear Relationship Between Religiosity and Paranormal Beliefs
Studies have attempted to understand the association between more conventional supernatural (religious) beliefs and practices and less conventional “paranormal” supernatural beliefs. Some have posited that the two comprise incompatible cultural spheres and belief systems, while others have argued that supernatural religious beliefs are “small steps” toward less conventional paranormal views (such as belief in astrology and telekinesis). We build …
Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism
Journal Article Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism Get access Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism, by JONATHAN L. WALTON. New York: New York University Press, 2009, 283 pp.; $20.49 USD (paper), $75.00 USD (cloth). Scott Draper Scott Draper Baylor University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 71, Issue 4, WINTER 2010, Pages 483–48…
Sunday Celluloid: Visual Media and Protestant Boundaries With Secular Culture
We examine how ministers in two religious traditions use discourse on secular visual media as a means of establishing symbolic group boundaries. We compare content in 100 evangelical and mainline Protestant sermons, each of which makes at least one reference to secular cinema. We find that mainline ministers largely promote “expanding” boundaries with secular culture, that evangelical ministers promote “contracting” and “expanding” boundaries in …
Angelic Belief as American Folk Religion 1
Belief in angels and their intervention in the material world is prevalent in the United States. Theoretically, the concept of folk religion offers an instructive lens into the popularity of these beliefs, which exist inside, outside, and across official religious doctrines, and are therefore able to transcend the boundaries of specific religious traditions by appealing to a diverse array of believers. Empirical analyses from a recent national su…
Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion
Journal Article Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion Get access Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion, by PHIL ZUCKERMAN. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, 240 pp.; $24.95 USD (cloth). Scott Draper Scott Draper The College of Idaho [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 73, Issue 3, AUTUMN 2012, Pages 354–355, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srs…
What Will the Neighbors Think? The Effect of Moral Communities on Cohabitation
In this study, we analyze the relationship between county-level religious adherence rates and county-level cohabitation rates in the year 2000. Based on the concept of moral communities, we test hypotheses that higher rates of affiliation with certain religious traditions and lower levels of religious heterogeneity will correlate with lower rates of cohabitation. The analysis consists of data from two sources: the 2000 U.S. Census and the 2000 Re…
Images of a Loving God and Sense of Meaning in Life
Effervescence and Solidarity in Religious Organizations
In the ritual theories of Durkheim and Collins, collective effervescence is the engine that drives social solidarity. I use data from religious organizations to perform a rare test of this hypothesis. In addition, four other hypotheses from Collins's interaction ritual theory are tested regarding ritual dynamics that are expected to promote effervescence and solidarity. Congregational data from the 2001 United States Congregational Life Survey re…
The preeminent sacred symbol: Theorizing image of God outcomes
Images of God are the most consequential religious beliefs known to social science. Although sociologists have identified a wide and diverse range of outcomes of imagining different versions of God, more work is needed to show how these outcomes fit together within a multistep theoretical framework. To lay groundwork for such a theory, the present paper (a) briefly summarizes major theoretical perspectives on sources and outcomes of images of God…
Religious Interaction Ritual: The Microsociology of the Spirit
Scott Draper’s book offers a rich theoretically driven study of religion, specifically the role of ritual. The study draws largely upon the work of Randall Collins and his theory of interaction ritual. While Collins work focuses on a range of ritual activities, he offers little empirical work on religion. This is where Draper’s book makes its mark and offers an important contribution to the sociology of religion. Draper’s main argument is that ri…
Effervescence Accelerators: Barriers to Outsiders in Christian Interaction Rituals
In interaction ritual theory, barriers to outsiders are cues that communicate who is and is not excluded from a ritual. Prior research on religious rituals has established strong support for the hypothesis that barriers promote collective effervescence and social solidarity. Questions remain, though, regarding how this social dynamic impacts the practices, identities, missions, and conflicts of congregations who strive to be inclusive. We conduct…
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