Damon Mayrl

Current Research Projects

Historical and Comparative Methods

How are comparative and historical methods actually practiced in the social sciences, and what can that tell us about knowledge production and epistemic pluralism?

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Church and State in Local and Judicial Politics

How do municipal officials and religious leaders negotiate the church-state relationship at the local level? How do courts interact with other political venues to define religious freedom?

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Symbolic Politics and the State

How do classification struggles and other cultural dynamics shape public understandings of the state?

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Religion and Social Stratification

How does religion intersect with race and gender to shape political attitudes and structural inequalities?

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Previous Research

Secularization and the State

How do political institutions shape the position of religion in public life?

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Institutional Influences on Individual Religiosity

How do higher education and the family shape individual belief and practice?

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Other Work on Politics, Culture, and Knowledge

Various writings on local officials, social movements, consecration, law, diversity, and public sociology

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Mental Health and Criminal Justice

How and under what conditions do mental health diversion courts work?

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