Jörg Stolz

1.1k total citations
55 papers, 547 citations indexed

About

Jörg Stolz is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Jörg Stolz has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 547 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 16 papers in Health and 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Jörg Stolz's work include Religion and Society Interactions (37 papers), Religion, Society, and Development (32 papers) and Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (16 papers). Jörg Stolz is often cited by papers focused on Religion and Society Interactions (37 papers), Religion, Society, and Development (32 papers) and Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (16 papers). Jörg Stolz collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Serbia. Jörg Stolz's co-authors include Detlef Pollack, Nan Dirk de Graaf, David Voas, Jean‐Philippe Antonietti, Mark Chaves, Francesco Molteni, Pascal Tanner, Martin Baumann, Ferruccio Biolcati and Alexi Gugushvili and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and British Journal of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

Jörg Stolz

47 papers receiving 490 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jörg Stolz Switzerland	12	459	228	75	61	43	55	547
Ruth Braunstein United States	13	421 0.9×	129 0.6×	23 0.3×	154 2.5×	49 1.1×	24	502
Lawrence A. Young United States	9	272 0.6×	128 0.6×	19 0.3×	82 1.3×	16 0.4×	29	367
Clive D. Field United Kingdom	8	250 0.5×	49 0.2×	27 0.4×	101 1.7×	13 0.3×	48	351
Ronald L. Johnstone United States	7	196 0.4×	68 0.3×	33 0.4×	39 0.6×	28 0.7×	17	278
William H. Willimon United States	8	115 0.3×	50 0.2×	44 0.6×	20 0.3×	23 0.5×	39	247
Matthew T. Loveland United States	8	335 0.7×	181 0.8×	16 0.2×	53 0.9×	3 0.1×	15	412
A. Leland Jamison	3	352 0.8×	158 0.7×	43 0.6×	84 1.4×	13 0.3×	8	479
Ignatius Swart South Africa	11	317 0.7×	35 0.2×	85 1.1×	18 0.3×	9 0.2×	46	380
Elizabeth Poole United Kingdom	10	421 0.9×	12 0.1×	31 0.4×	136 2.2×	83 1.9×	20	580
Jaco Beyers South Africa	8	179 0.4×	21 0.1×	92 1.2×	14 0.2×	13 0.3×	45	283

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20 of 20 papers shown

Stolz, Jörg, Nan Dirk de Graaf, Conrad Hackett, & Jean‐Philippe Antonietti. (2025). The three stages of religious decline around the world. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7202–7202. 1 indexed citations

Stolz, Jörg, et al.. (2025). The Sequential Rise of Female Religious Leadership. Sociological Science. 12. 180–201.

Stolz, Jörg, et al.. (2024). Diversity Dynamics: How Local Religious Groups Appear, Persist, or Disappear over Time. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 63(3). 519–542.

Stolz, Jörg. (2023). The theory of social games: outline of a general theory for the social sciences. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 10(1). 5 indexed citations

Stolz, Jörg, Alexi Gugushvili, Francesco Molteni, & Jean‐Philippe Antonietti. (2023). A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival. British Journal of Sociology. 74(4). 581–597. 9 indexed citations

Stolz, Jörg & David Voas. (2023). Explaining Religious Revival in the Context of Long-Term Secularization. Religions. 14(6). 723–723. 14 indexed citations

Stolz, Jörg, et al.. (2023). The Three Religious Revivals. Pentecostal, Islamic, and Orthodox Upswings in the Context of Long-Term Secularization. 10(1-2). 138–161. 2 indexed citations

Stolz, Jörg, et al.. (2021). Teaching mixed methods: Using the Titanic datasets to teach mixed methods data analysis. Methodology. 17(3). 231–249. 1 indexed citations

Stolz, Jörg, Detlef Pollack, Nan Dirk de Graaf, & Jean‐Philippe Antonietti. (2020). Losing My Religion as a Natural Experiment: How State Pressure and Taxes Led to Church Disaffiliations between 1940 and 2010 in Germany. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 60(1). 83–102. 4 indexed citations

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Stolz, Jörg. (2020). Secularization theories in the twenty-first century: Ideas, evidence, and problems. Presidential address. Social Compass. 67(2). 282–308. 63 indexed citations

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Stolz, Jörg, et al.. (2019). Does establishment suppress the political activities of religious congregations? Evidence from Switzerland. Politics and Religion. 13(1). 28–56. 1 indexed citations

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Stolz, Jörg, et al.. (2019). Growth and Decline of Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, Pentecostals, and Charismatics in Switzerland 1970–2013. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 58(3). 604–625. 3 indexed citations

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Stolz, Jörg, et al.. (2014). Phänomen Freikirchen. Analysen eines wettbewerbsstarken Milieus. IRIS. 2 indexed citations

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Stolz, Jörg. (2009). A Silent Battle. Theorizing the Effects of Competition between Churches and Secular Institutions. IRIS. 17 indexed citations

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Stolz, Jörg. (2009). Explaining religiosity: towards a unified theoretical model¹. British Journal of Sociology. 60(2). 345–376. 63 indexed citations

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Stolz, Jörg. (2008). Salvation goods and religious markets : theory and applications. IRIS. 6 indexed citations

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Stolz, Jörg. (2008). Gods and social mechanisms. New perspectives for an explanatory sociology of religion. 3 indexed citations

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Stolz, Jörg. (2005). Explaining islamophobia. A test of four theories based on thecase of a Swiss City. Swiss Journal of Sociology. 31(3). 547–566. 37 indexed citations

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Stolz, Jörg, et al.. (2005). The Evangelical Milieu: Defining Criteria and Reproduction across the Generations. Social Compass. 52(2). 169–183. 8 indexed citations

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Stolz, Jörg. (2000). Die evangelikale Bekehrung aus systemtheoretischer Sicht. IRIS.

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