🗣️"This isn’t just inside talk about religion debates. Evidence of ideological bias in the production of social scientific knowledge is emerging beyond religious faith, extending to political orientations" #SocialScience #AcademicSky

🗣️"The secularization debate is not going away anytime soon. Our study does not prove that one side is objective while the other is biased. But it does suggest that researchers should pay closer attention to the preconceptions they bring to their work." @valeriarainero.bsky.social #SocialScience

Out now in @jssreligion.bsky.social with @ruudluijkx.bsky.social Using topic modeling on 1600+ academic articles, we provide a systematization of secularization literature and test whether researchers tend to study their own communities 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fascinating paper! Scholars who are secular are more likely to believe in secularization & find evidence of it in their research. The opposite pattern is true for scholars who are religious. This is worth your time to read in full: sociologicalscience.com/download/vol...

My first paper is out in #SociologicalScience! With Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx, we found robust evidence of ideological #bias in #secularization research: researchers' own religiosity is correlated with their probability of finding evidence of religious decline in their publications. Read more: 👇