Most cited papers in Theological Perspectives and Practices
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).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 61 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Feb 1987 | 349 |
| 3 | Aesthetics of Persuasion: Global Christianity and Pentecostalism's Sensational Forms Birgit Meyer · South Atlantic Quarterly | 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 |
| 6 | Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary U.S. Christianity Tanya Marie Luhrmann · American Anthropologist | Sep 2004 | 247 |
| 7 | Religion, Spirituality, and Medicine: Application to Clinical Practice Harold G. Koenig · JAMA | 4 Oct 2000 | 233 |
| 8 | Making Inclusive Communities: Congregations and the "Problem" of Race Penny Edgell Becker · Social Problems | Nov 1998 | 227 |
| 9 | Racialization and Muslims: Situating the Muslim Experience in Race Scholarship Saher Selod, David G. Embrick · Sociology Compass | Aug 2013 | 216 |
| 10 | The Cognitive Structure of a Moral Crusade: Conservative Protestantism and Opposition to Pornography Darren E. Sherkat, Christopher G. Ellison · Social Forces | Mar 1997 | 215 |
| 11 | Measuring the Image of God: The God Image Inventory and the God Image Scales Richard T. Lawrence · Journal of Psychology and Theology | Jun 1997 | 213 |
| 12 | Spirituality, Gender, and Expressive Selfhood Eeva Sointu, Linda Woodhead · Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 22 May 2008 | 213 |
| 13 | Autoethnography as a Transformative Research Method Dwayne Custer · The Qualitative Report | 13 Oct 2014 | 208 |
| 14 | Faith and Health: Psychological Perspectives James K. Boehnlein · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease | Nov 2002 | 207 |
| 15 | Adolescence as a Sensitive Period for Spiritual Development Marie Good, Teena Willoughby · Child Development Perspectives | 31 Mar 2008 | 177 |
| 16 | An 'Ecospiritual' Perspective: Finally, a Place for Indigenous Approaches Joseph Coates · The British Journal of Social Work | Apr 2006 | 175 |
| 17 | WHEN GOD TALKS BACK. UNDERSTANDING THE AMERICAN ENGANGELICAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. ALFRED A KNOPF, NEW YORK. Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Reviewed by Hatib Abdul Kadir · Al-Albab | Dec 2012 | 166 |
| 18 | God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity' Sarah Coakley | 29 Aug 2013 | 157 |
| 19 | The Integral Role of Pastoral Counseling by African-American Clergy in Community Mental Health John L. Young, Ezra E. H. Griffith, David R. Williams · Psychiatric Services | 28 Apr 2003 | 156 |
| 20 | Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope Calvin L. Warren · CR The New Centennial Review | Mar 2015 | 154 |
| 21 | Training and education in religion/spirituality within APA-accredited clinical psychology programs. Peter A. Brawer, Paul J. Handal, Anthony N. Fabricatore et al. · Professional Psychology Research and Practice | Apr 2002 | 152 |
| 22 | Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence: Moving to the Scientific Mainstream Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Peter Benson, Pamela Ebstyne King et al. | 2006 | 146 |
| 23 | Instrumental, Narrow, Normative? Reviewing recent work on religion and development Ben Jones, Marie Juul Petersen · Third World Quarterly | Aug 2011 | 144 |
| 24 | A Gender Lens on Religion Orit Avishai, Afshan Jafar, Rachel Rinaldo · Gender & Society | 9 Jan 2015 | 142 |
| 25 | Lived religion: the praxis of Practical Theology R.R. Ganzevoort, Johan Roeland · International Journal of Practical Theology | 5 Jun 2014 | 137 |
| 26 | The Phenomenology of Spirit Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel, Terry Pinkard, Michael Baur · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 12 Feb 2018 | 134 |
| 27 | Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing Thomas J. Csordas · Medical Anthropology Quarterly | Jun 1988 | 132 |
| 28 | MORAL DEVELOPMENT, RELIGIOUS THINKING, AND THE QUESTION OF A SEVENTH STAGE Lawrence Kohlberg, Clark Power · Zygon® | 2 Sep 1981 | 128 |
| 29 | Religion and Spirituality in the Face of Illness Teresa E. Woods, Gail H. Ironson · Journal of Health Psychology | May 1999 | 127 |
| 30 | Spirituality in the academy: reclaiming from the margins and evoking a transformative way of knowing the world Riyad A. Shahjahan · International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education | 20 Oct 2005 | 126 |
| 31 | White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Biko Mandela Gray · Political Science Quarterly | 2021 | 125 |
| 32 | The Observing Self: Mysticism and Psychotherapy Justin Simon · American Journal of Psychiatry | Aug 1983 | 123 |
| 33 | Critical spirituality: enhancing transformative leadership through critical theory and African American prophetic spirituality Michael E. Dantley · International Journal of Leadership in Education | 2003 | 123 |
| 34 | Developing the notion of ubuntu as African theory for social work practice Adrian Du Plessis van Breda · Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk | Oct 2019 | 122 |
| 35 | Religion and mental health: what should psychiatrists do? Harold George Koenig · Psychiatric Bulletin | 30 May 2008 | 121 |
| 36 | RESEARCH: "At the Crossroads of Sexuality and Spirituality: The Sanctification of Sex by College Students" Nichole A. Murray‐Swank, Kenneth I. Pargäment, Annette Mahoney · International Journal for the Psychology of Religion | Jul 2005 | 121 |
| 37 | Medical School Curricula in Spirituality and Medicine Auguste H. Fortin · JAMA | 16 Jun 2004 | 121 |
| 38 | Psychiatrists’ religious attitudes in relation to their clinical practice: a survey of 231 psychiatrists Jan Neeleman, M. Bruce King · Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica | Dec 1993 | 120 |
| 39 | Spiritual Lifemaps: A Client-Centered Pictorial Instrument for Spiritual Assessment, Planning, and Intervention David R. Hodge · Social Work | 2005 | 115 |
| 40 | Suffering Presence: Theological Reflections on Medicine, the Mentally Handicapped, and the Church William W. Clinkenbeard · Journal of Medical Ethics | Sep 1987 | 115 |
| 41 | Patterns of spirituality in persons with advanced HIV disease Beverly A. Hall · Research in Nursing & Health | Apr 1998 | 114 |
| 42 | The Culture of Privilege: Color‐blindness, Postfeminism, and Christonormativity Abby L. Ferber · Journal of Social Issues | Mar 2012 | 114 |
| 43 | The child and childhood in feminist theory Erica Burman, Jackie Stacey · Feminist Theory | Dec 2010 | 113 |
| 44 | Intrapersonal Correlates of Nonspontaneous Helping Behavior Peter Benson, John Dehority, Lynn Garman et al. · The Journal of Social Psychology | Feb 1980 | 112 |
| 45 | Theology and Spirituality: Strangers, Rivals, or Partners? Sandra Marie Schneiders · Horizons | 1986 | 112 |
| 46 | Stages of faith and identity: birth to teens James W. Fowler, Mary Lynn Dell · Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America | 2004 | 111 |
| 47 | An Investigation of the Relations Between Altruism, Empathy, and Spirituality John Thomas Huber, Douglas A. MacDonald · Journal of Humanistic Psychology | 7 Mar 2011 | 108 |
| 48 | The psychological type profile of Anglican churchgoers in England: compatible or incompatible with their clergy? Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins, Charlotte L. Craig · International Journal of Practical Theology | 2011 | 108 |
| 49 | Care-Based and Altruistically Based Morality Gustavo Carlo | 21 Apr 2006 | 105 |
| 50 | God as a Secure Base: Attachment to God and Theological Exploration Richard Beck · Journal of Psychology and Theology | Jun 2006 | 103 |
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