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Daniel Winchester

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

Mid career · publishing since 2006

Publications

42

Citations

688

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

21

Publishing since 2006

Research summary
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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.

Sociology of religionReligious experience and embodimentEthnographic methodsMoral motivation and cultural sociologySocial theory

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

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.8/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 2 publications182019: 2 publications192020: 1 publication202021: 3 publications212022: 5 publications5222023: 1 publication23242025: 4 publications252026: 4 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Sociology of Religion×3
  • Bristol University Press eBooks×3
  • Sociological Theory×2
  • Qualitative Sociology×2
  • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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