Daniel Winchester
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
42
Citations
688
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
21
Publishing since 2006
Daniel Winchester studies religion as a lived, social phenomenon, focusing on how people develop religious beliefs, emotions, and habits through everyday practice, ritual, and bodily experience. His work draws on sociology and ethnography (in-depth qualitative fieldwork) to examine topics like religious conversion, prayer, moral motivation, and controversies within American and Christian religious communities. He also contributes to broader theoretical debates about how sociologists should study and conceptualize religion.
Publication output has fluctuated but shows an uptick in recent years, with a dip in 2024 followed by a rebound in 2025 and 2026.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Religion Unbundled: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Paradigm for the Sociology of American Religion
American Sociological Review · 2026
- Guiding God's Marriage: Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling Guiding God's Marriage: Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling, by IrbyCourtney Ann. New York: New York University Press, 2024. 255 pp. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 9781479822140.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2026
- Religion Unbundled: Toward a Twenty-first Century Paradigm for the Sociology of American Religion
2026
- Religion Unbundled: Toward a Twenty-first Century Paradigm for the Sociology of American Religion
SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) · 2026
- Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · 2025
- Making a Martyr?: Scandal, Symbolic Power, and the Controversial Death of Evangelical Missionary John Chau
Qualitative Sociology · 2025
- Social Theory Re-Wired
2023
- Doing It: Ethnography, Embodiment, and the Interpretation of Religion
Policy Press eBooks · 2022
- Doing It:
Bristol University Press eBooks · 2022
- Doing It: Ethnography, Embodiment, and the Interpretation of Religion
Bristol University Press eBooks · 2022
- Doing It: Ethnography, Embodiment, and the Interpretation of Religion
2022
- Doing It: Ethnography, Embodiment, and the Interpretation of Religion
Bristol University Press eBooks · 2022
- Sensing the Sacred: Religious Experience, Somatic Inversions, and the Religious Education of Attention
Sociology of Religion · 2021
- Mediating the Sacred: Thinking Through Religious Experience in the Classics and Beyond
Handbooks of sociology and social research · 2021
- What Happens When We Practice Religion?: Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life, by ROBERT WUTHNOW
Sociology of Religion · 2021
- Sociology of Religion×3
- Bristol University Press eBooks×3
- Sociological Theory×2
- Qualitative Sociology×2
- Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion×2
- Daniel V. A. Olson
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Fenggang Yang
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Christopher H. Seto
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Andrew L. Whitehead
Social Sciences · Indiana University
- Jacqui Frost
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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