Books
2021. Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools. Oxford University Press. Here’s a PDF of the first chapter: Agents of God Chapter 1.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Forthcoming. Becker, Elisabeth, Rachel Rinaldo, and Jeffrey Guhin. “Classifying Muslims: Contextualizing Religion and Race in the United States and Germany” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.PDF
Forthcoming. “Traces of the Dead, Actions of the Not-Alive: A Prologue to a Theory of Agentification.” American Behavioral Scientist.PDF
2023. Guhin, Jeffrey, Mirya Holman, Travis Coan, and Constantine Boussalis. “When to Preach about Poverty and Race: How Location, Race, and Ideology Shape White Evangelical Sermons” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 62(2): 312-335. PDF
2022. Guhin, Jeffrey and Joseph Klett. “School Beyond Stratification: Internal Goods, Alienation, and an Expanded Sociology of Education” Theory and Society. 51: 371-398. PDF
2022 Rinaldo, Rachel and Jeffrey Guhin. “How and Why Interviews Work: Ethnographic Interviews and Meso-level Public Culture” Sociological Methods and Research. 51(1): 34-67. PDF
2021. Guhin, Jeffrey, Jessica McCrory Calarco, and Cynthia Miller-Idriss. “Whatever Happened to Socialization?” Annual Review of Sociology. 47: 109-129. PDF
2020 “The Boundaries of Pragmatism in Muslim Education: Comparing the Islamic Pedagogies of Sayyid Qutb and Fethullah Gulen” Critical Research on Religion. PDF
2019 Crosbie, Thomas, and Jeffrey Guhin “On the Ambivalence of the Aphorism in Sociological Theory” Sociological Theory 37(4): 381-400. PDF
2019 “Defining Du’a: A Study of Contested Meanings in Immigrant Muslims Schools in the New York City Area” Journal of Education in Muslim Societies 1(1): 26-43. PDF
2019 “Religion as Source, Resource, Evaluation, and Hindrance: Intellectual Humility and the Relationship Between Religion and Politics” Political Power and Social Theory. 36: 23-46. PDF
2019 Winchester, Daniel and Jeffrey Guhin. “Praying ‘Straight from the Heart’: Evangelical Sincerity and Normative Frames of Culture in Action” Poetics. 72: 32-42. PDF
2018 “Colorblind Islam: The Racial Hinges of Immigrant Muslims in the United States” Social Inclusion. 6(2): 87-97. PDF
2017 Gorski, Philip and Jeffrey Guhin. “The Ongoing Plausibility of Peter Berger: Sociological Thoughts on The Sacred Canopy at Fifty.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 85(4): 1118-1131. PDF
2016 “Why sociologists of education are moral (personally) but don’t write about morality (professionally): a cultural sociology of education.” Sociologia e Politche Sociali. 19(2): 34-51. PDF
2016 “Why Worry about Evolution? Boundaries, Practices, and Moral Salience in Sunni and Evangelical High Schools.” Sociological Theory. 34(2): 151-174. PDF
2015 “Religion as Site Rather Than Religion as Category: On the Sociology of Religion’s Export Problem.” Sociology of Religion. 75(4): 579-593. PDF
2013 Guhin, Jeffrey and Jonathan Wyrtzen. “The Violences of Knowledge: Edward Said, Sociology, and Post-Orientalist Reflexivity.” Political Power and Social Theory. 24: 231-262. PDF
2013 “Is Irony Good for America?: The Threat of Nihilism, The Need for Romance, and The Power of Cultural Forms.” Cultural Sociology. 7(1): 23-38. PDF
Working Papers
On Being Kicked Out of a Fieldsite
Book Chapters
2021. Why Study Schools? The Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory, published by Springer and edited by Seth Abrutyn and Omar Lizardo.
2019. Robert Bellah’s Catholic Imagination The Anthem Companion to Robert Bellah. Ed. Matteo Bortolini.
2018 Urban Public Schools: Self-Actualization versus Citizenship? (pp. 23-46) The Content of Their Character: Inquiries into the Varieties of Moral Formation. Ed. James Davison Hunter and Ryan S. Olson. Finstock & Tew.
Book Reviews
2021. The Subversive Evangelical: The Ironic Charisma of an Irreligious Megachurch American Journal of Sociology 126(5): 1293-1295.
2019. “A ‘Homosexual Sociology of Catholicism” that Wasn’t” [Review of In the Closet of the Vatican by Frédéric Martel]
2019. “Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology by Daniel Chernilo.” Contemporary Sociology. 48(1): 44-46.
2017. “Religion Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report by Saba Mahmood.” Sociology of Religion. 78(3): 372-374
2017 “Democracy and the Passions” [Review of Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought by James T. Kloppenberg] 19(2).
2017 “Muslimism in Turkey and Beyond: Religion in the Modern World, by Neslihan Cevik.” Contemporary Sociology. 46(3): 297-298.
2017 “Political Choice Matters: Explaining the Strength of Class and Religious Cleavages in Cross-National Perspective, edited by Geoffrey Evans and Nan Dirk de Graaf.” Contemporary Sociology. 46(1): 66-67.
2016 “Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia by Rachel Rinaldo.” Social Forces. 95(1): 1-2.
2016 “Race Still Matters” [Review of The Racial Order by Mustafa Emirbayer and Matthew Desmond and Grounds for Difference by Rogers Brubaker]. The Hedgehog Review. 18(2).
2016 “Polling the Soul” [On Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s Faith by Robert Wuthnow].” Los Angeles Review of Books.
2015 “Finding Mecca in America: How Islam is Becoming an American Religion by Mucahit Bilici.” Contemporary Islam. 9(1): 101-103.
2014 “Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod.” The Hedgehog Review.
2013 “Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age by Robert Bellah.” Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review. 74(3): 416-417.
2011 Gorski, Philip S. and Jeffrey Guhin. “What is a Person? by Christian Smith.” The Hedgehog Review.