Does Funding Impact Our Research? Causality, Normativity, and Diversity in 40 Years of U.S. Sociology of Religion

In this article we use a sample of 40 years of sociology journal articles (N = 1,024) on religion to ask what role funding plays in some of the leading trends in the subdiscipline. Our analysis reveals a considerable increase in the number of published articles on religion with funding over the past...

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VerfasserInnen: May, Matthew (VerfasserIn) ; Smilde, David (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell [2018]
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Jahr: 2018, Band: 57, Heft: 3, Seiten: 432-449
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B USA / Religionssoziologie / Forschungsgegenstand / Finanzierung / Einfluss / Geschichte 1971-2011
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
KBQ Nordamerika
weitere Schlagwörter:B Methodology
B pro-religiousness
B Funding
B sociocultural context
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Zusammenfassung:In this article we use a sample of 40 years of sociology journal articles (N = 1,024) on religion to ask what role funding plays in some of the leading trends in the subdiscipline. Our analysis reveals a considerable increase in the number of published articles on religion with funding over the past 40 years as well as a shift away from public funding as the primary source of funding. Engaging our findings in previous analyses of this database, we surprisingly find a positive correlation between public funding and positive socio-evaluative findings in articles on religion, but not between private funding and positive socio-evaluative findings. We also find a positive correlation between funding from religious organizations and research on religion in the United States and a weak, but negative, correlation between funding from religious organizations and research on non-Christian religious traditions. We do not find a relationship between funding and causal order.
ISSN:1468-5906
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12536