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Spencer Dew

Social Sciences · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1997Rising activity
American Constitutional Law and PoliticsMedia, Religion, Digital CommunicationReligion and Society InteractionsReligious Tourism and SpacesReligious Studies and Spiritual Practices

Publications

127

Citations

55

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

30

Publishing since 1997

Research summary
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Spencer Dew works in religious studies, with attention to how religion intersects with law, media, popular culture, and society. Much of the recent output consists of book and film reviews published in a religious studies journal, covering topics like sacred kingship, religious minorities, law and diaspora, and religion's presence in film, memoir, and popular culture. A prospective student would find this work oriented toward humanities-style analysis of religion's role in contemporary culture and public life rather than laboratory or quantitative social science research.

Religion and lawReligion in media and popular cultureReligious minorities and societyBook and film criticism in religious studiesSacred kingship and political theology

Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, with a dip around 2020-2021, followed by a resurgence in 2024-2025, and an overall five-year average of about 9 publications per year.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 9.0/year recently
2017: 12 publications172018: 8 publications182019: 24 publications24192020: 1 publication202021: 2 publications212022: 5 publications222023: 5 publications232024: 14 publications242025: 20 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Religious Studies Review×80
  • American Religion×4
  • Religion×2
  • Journal of Law and Religion×1
  • Political Theology×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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