Publications

Publications

Scientology Life Improvement Centre, 2022. © Roy Katzenberg, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters

Forthcoming

Essays, book reviews, blog posts, and newspaper articles

Podcast interviews and recorded guest lectures

Forthcoming

Database of Religious History (DRH)

  • Danielson, Andrew J., Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod, Matthew J. Hamm, Gino Canlas, Ian E. Randall, Diana K. Moreiras Reynaga, Julian Weideman, and M. Willis Monroe. “Testing and Disrupting Ontologies: Using the Database of Religious History as a Pedagogical Tool.” Religions 13, no. 9 (2022): 793. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090793.
  • Monroe et al. “On the Category of Religion : A Taxonomic Analysis of a Large-Scale Database.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2023, lfad065. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad065.
  • Monroe, M. Willis. 2023. “Quantifying Thick Descriptions with the Database of Religious History.” In Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods, edited by Sandra Blakely and Megan Daniels, 223–46. Lockwood Press. https://doi.org/10.5913/2023518.09.
  • Muthukrishna, Michael, Joseph Henrich, and Edward Slingerland. “Psychology as a Historical Science.” Annual Review of Psychology 72, no. 1 (2021): 717–49. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-082820-111436.
  • Poulsen, Victor Møller, and Simon DeDeo. “Inferring Cultural Landscapes with the Inverse Ising Model,” 2022. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2212.08168.
  • Slingerland, Edward, and Brenton Sullivan. “Durkheim with Data: The Database of Religious History.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 85, no. 2 (2017): 312–47. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfw012.
  • Slingerland, Edward, M. Willis Monroe, and Michael Muthukrishna. “The Database of Religious History (DRH): Ontology, Coding Strategies and the Future of Cultural Evolutionary Analyses.” Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2023, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2200825.
  • Slingerland, Edward, Quentin D. Atkinson, Carol R. Ember, Oliver Sheehan, Michael Muthukrishna, Joseph Bulbulia, and Russell D. Gray. “Coding Culture: Challenges and Recommendations for Comparative Cultural Databases.” Evolutionary Human Sciences 2 (2020): e29. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.30.
  • Spicer, Rachel, M. Willis Monroe, Matthew Hamm, Andrew Danielson, Gino Canlas, Ian Randall, and Edward Slingerland. “Religion and Ecology: A Pilot Study Employing the Database of Religious History.” Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology 3 (2022): 100073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100073.
  • Sullivan, Brenton, Michael Muthukrishna, Frederick S. Tappenden, and Edward Slingerland. “Exploring the Challenges and Potentialities of the Database of Religious History for Cognitive Historiography.” Journal of Cognitive Historiography 3, no. 1–2 (2018): 12–31. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.31656.
  • Tappenden, Frederick S., and Edward Slingerland. “Introduction: Digital Humanities, Cognitive Historiography, and the Study of Religion.” Journal of Cognitive Historiography 3, no. 1–2 (2018): 7–11. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.34446.
  • Wormley, Alexandra S., and Adam B. Cohen. “Pathogen Prevalence and Food Taboos: A Cross-Cultural Analysis.” Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology 3 (2022): 100056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100056.

Inform

  • Barker, Eileen ([1989] 1995), New Religious Movements: A practical Introduction. London: HMSO.
  • Barker, Eileen. 2001. “INFORM: Bringing the Sociology of Religion to the Public Space” in Chercheurs de dieux dans l’espace public - Frontier Religions in Public Space P. Côté (ed)., 21-34. University of Ottawa Press. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1ckpcj1.7](http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1ckpcj1.7)
  • Barker, Eileen. 2006. “What Should We Do About the Cults? Policies, Information and the Perspective of INFORM,” in The New Religious Question: State Regulation or State Interference? , 371-94: Oxford, Peter Lang. [https://inform.ac/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Barker-What-Should-We-Do-About-the-Cults-in-New-Religious-Question.pdf](https://inform.ac/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Barker-What-Should-We-Do-About-the-Cults-in-New-Religious-Question.pdf)
  • Barker, Eileen. 2011. “Stepping out of the Ivory Tower: A Sociological Engagement in ‘the Cult Wars’, Methodological Innovations Online 6(1): 18-39. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.4256/mio.2010.0026
  • Newcombe, Suzanne and Sarah Harvey. 2024. “Balancing pragmaticism and precision: Inform’s approach to cult rhetoric,” in ‘Cult’ Rhetoric in the 21st Century: Deconstructing the Study of New Religious Movements, edited by Aled Thomas and Edward Graham-Hyde, 21-40. London: Bloomsbury. https://oro.open.ac.uk/97568/.