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Theological Perspectives and Practices

Theological Perspectives and Practices is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 4.8k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of Black liberation theology, race, feminism, and social justice. It delves into the impact of religion on African-American communities, addressing oppression, intersectionality, and practical theology in the context of gender and social inequality.

  • Black Liberation Theology
  • Race
  • Religion
  • Social Justice
  • Feminism
  • Oppression
  • Intersectionality
  • Practical Theology
  • African-American
  • Gender
Research works
4.8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
484
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
60% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Theological Perspectives and Practices

Which countries lead Theological Perspectives and Practices research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (621 and 162 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 621 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 162 works
  3. 3 South Africa 75 works
  4. 4 Canada 42 works
  5. 5 Australia 40 works
  6. 6 Germany 24 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 23 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 19 works
  9. 9 India 15 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 14 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 60.0%United Kingdom: 15.7%South Africa: 7.2%Canada: 4.1%6 others listed: 13.0%60%largest
United States621 · 60.0%United Kingdom162 · 15.7%South Africa75 · 7.2%Canada42 · 4.1%6 others listed135 · 13.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Theological Perspectives and Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Liberty University publishes the most Theological Perspectives and Practices research, followed by University of South Africa and Andrews University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Liberty UniversityUnited States 22 works
  2. 2 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 19 works
  3. 3 Andrews UniversityUnited States 14 works
  4. 4 University of PretoriaSouth Africa 12 works
  5. 5 George Fox UniversityUnited States 12 works
  6. 6 Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa 11 works
  7. 7 Artistic Realization TechnologiesUnited States 11 works
  8. 8 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 11 works
  9. 9 Biblical Theological SeminaryUnited States 11 works
  10. 10 University of AberdeenUnited Kingdom 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Theological Perspectives and Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Theological Perspectives and Practices include P. R. Hobson and David L. Smith.

  1. 1 P. R. Hobson United Kingdom 107k citations
  2. 2 David L. Smith United States 90k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Theological Perspectives and Practices?

The most cited paper in Theological Perspectives and Practices is "The Matthew Matilda Effect in Science" (Margaret W. Rossiter, 1993), with 986 citations. Next come "convicted by the holy spirit: the rhetoric of fundamental Baptist conversion" (349) and "Aesthetics of Persuasion: Global Christianity and Pentecostalism's Sensational Forms" (295).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Matthew Matilda Effect in Science Margaret W. Rossiter · Social Studies of Science May 1993 986
2 convicted by the holy spirit: the rhetoric of fundamental Baptist conversion Susan Harding · American Ethnologist Open access Feb 1987 349
3 Aesthetics of Persuasion: Global Christianity and Pentecostalism's Sensational Forms Birgit Meyer · South Atlantic Quarterly Open access 27 Sep 2010 295
4 Documents of Life 2: An Invitation to a Critical Humanism Raymond Mark Lee · Field Methods Aug 2001 277
5 A Black Theology of Liberation Dwight N. Hopkins · Black Theology 2005 266
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Theological Perspectives and Practices research done?

The largest centres of Theological Perspectives and Practices research in 2022-now are Pretoria (South Africa), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Lynchburg (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lynchburg and Pretoria.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 PretoriaSouth Africa 33 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 29 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 27 works
  4. 4 LynchburgUnited States 22 works
  5. 5 ChicagoUnited States 20 works
  6. 6 BostonUnited States 17 works
  7. 7 OxfordUnited Kingdom 16 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 15 works
  9. 9 Berrien SpringsUnited States 14 works
  10. 10 TorontoCanada 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LynchburgUS · 21.5 works156×
  2. PretoriaZA · 32.7 works22×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Theological Perspectives and Practices than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Theological Perspectives and Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, University of South Africa, University of Aberdeen and Stellenbosch University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of South AfricaSouth Africa 89.421.2%41.8×19 +77.7%
2University of AberdeenUnited Kingdom 72.925.2%40.6×10 +60.7%
3Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa 58.49.2%28.1×11 +124.4%
4University of PretoriaSouth Africa 57.216.8%25.8×12 -28.5%
5Liberty UniversityUnited States 50.14.7%641.3×22 -
6University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 38.17.5%7.3×11 +11.8%
7Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 37.84.6%23.9×9 +25.6%
8University of ChicagoUnited States 36.24.1%9.9×9 +121.1%
9Andrews UniversityUnited States 35.62.5%468.0×14 -
10Boston CollegeUnited States 35.56.4%57.8×9 +47.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Theological Perspectives and Practices, country by country

Is Theological Perspectives and Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Theological Perspectives and Practices.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Theological Perspectives and Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0033% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Theological Perspectives and Practices over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Theological Perspectives and Practices9.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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