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Hajikhameneh, Aidin and Iannaccone, Laurence R. "God games: An experimental study of uncertainty, superstition, and cooperation". Games and Economic Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2023.01.004

Iannaccone, Laurence R. "When You Pray to God Online, Who Else Is Listening?" Freakonomics Radio podcast, July 14, 2022. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/when-you-pray-to-god-online-who-else-is-listening/

Iannaccone, Laurence R. “Smart and Spiritual: The Coevolution of Religion and Rationality,” in Religion and Human Flourishing. Edited by Adam B. Cohen, Baylor University Press, 2020.

Berman, Eli, Iannaccone, Laurence R., & Ragusa, Giuseppe. (2018). "FROM EMPTY PEWS TO EMPTY CRADLES: FERTILITY DECLINE AMONG EUROPEAN CATHOLICS." Journal of Demographic Economics, 84(2), 149-187. doi:10.1017/dem.2017.22

Franck, Raphael, and Laurence R. Iannaccone. “Religious Decline in the 20th century West: Testing Alternative Explanations." Public Choice 2014: 159:385–414.

Freakonomics Podcast Interview: “Does Religion Make you Happy?” [July 2014, 1 hour interview]

Podcast Interview on “Sacrifice, Stigma, and the Economics of Religion.” [August 2014, http://www.researchonreligion.org/, 1 hour.]

Jason Aimone, Laurence R. Iannaccone, Michael Makowsky, and Jared Rubin. “Endogenous Group Formation via Unproductive Costs." Review of Economic Studies: Oct 2013; 80(4): 1215–1236. (published online, June 2013).

Jason Aimone, Laurence R. Iannaccone, Michael Makowsky, and Jared Rubin. “Cooperation through Unproductive Costs” OUPblog of Oxford University Press, July 11, 2013.

"Extremism and the Economics of Religion." The Economic Record (Journal of the Economic Society of Australia) 88 (June, 2012), pp. 110–115.

“Funding the Faiths: Toward a Theory of Religious Finance” (with Feler Bose). The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion, edited by Rachel McCleary. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 2011, pp. 323-342.

“Lessons from Delphi: Religious Markets and Spiritual Capitals” (with Colleen E. Haight and Jared Rubin). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 77:3 (March, 2011), pp. 326-338.

“Economics of Religion.” (with William S. Bainbridge). The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion, Second Edition, edited by John Hinnells. Routledge: 2010, pp. 461-475.

“The Economics of Religion: Invest Now, Repent Later?” Faith and Economics 55 (Spring 2010): pp. 1-10.

“Economics of Religion.” (with Eli Berman). Chapter in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by Stephen Durlauf and Lawrence Blume. 2008

Doten-Snitker, Kerice, Avital Livny, and Jared Rubin. 2024. “Introduction: Religion and Culture within Historical Political Economy.” Journal of Historical Political Economy 4(2): 153-157.

Rubin, Jared. 2024. “Review of Wenkai He, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China.” Economic History Review 77(3): 1116-1117.

Rubin, Jared. 2024. “Religion, Political Legitimacy, and Complexity,” in Handbook on Institutions and Complexity (edited by Eric Alston, Lee Alston, and Bernardo Mueller). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.

Rubin, Jared. 2024. “How Did the World Become Rich?,” in The Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations (edited by Laura Grube). Beloit, WI: Beloit University Press, pp. 59-72.

Rubin, Jared. 2024. “Religion and Institutions,” in Handbook of New Institutional Economics, 2nd edition (edited by Mary Shirley and Claude Menard). New York: Springer: forthcoming.

Greif, Avner, and Jared Rubin. 2024. “Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance.” Journal of Economic History 84(3): 655-689.

Becker, Sascha O., Jared Rubin, and Ludger Woessmann. 2024. “Religion and Growth.” Journal of Economic Literature 62(3): 1094-1142.

Ma, Debin, and Jared Rubin. 2024. “Ideology and Economic Change: The Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th-Century China and Japan.” Journal of Government and Economics 15: 100122.

Carvalho, Jean-Paul, Jared Rubin, and Michael Sacks. 2024. “Failed Secular Revolutions: Religious Belief, Competition, and Extremism.” Public Choice 200: 561-586.

Bisin, Alberto, Jared Rubin, Avner Seror, and Thierry Verdier. 2024. “Culture, Institutions, and the Long Divergence.” Journal of Economic Growth 29(1): 1-40.

Rubin, Jared. 2024. “Religion and Cliometric Analysis,” in Handbook of Cliometrics, 3rd edition (edited by Claude Diebolt and Michael Haupert). New York: Springer Nature, pp. 1055-1074.

Jenkins, Jeffery A., and Jared Rubin. 2024. “Historical Political Economy: What Is It?” in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (edited by Jeffery A. Jenkins and Jared Rubin). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 1-14.

Greif, Avner, and Jared Rubin. 2024. “Political Legitimacy in Historical Political Economy,” in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (edited by Jeffery A. Jenkins and Jared Rubin). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 293-310.

Jenkins, Jeffery A., and Jared Rubin (eds.). 2024. The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy. New York: Oxford University Press.

Rubin, Jared. 2022. “Review of Jonathan Lawrence, Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 54(1): 191-193.

Rubin, Jared. 2022. “Review of Benjamin M. Friedman, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism.” Journal of Economic Literature 60(2): 650-652.

Karaja, Elira, and Jared Rubin. 2022. “The Cultural Transmission of Trust Norms: Evidence from a Lab in the Field on a Natural Experiment.” Journal of Comparative Economics 50(1): 1-19.

Koyama, Mark, and Jared Rubin. 2022. How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Rubin, Jared. 2022. “Religious Legitimacy and Long Run Economic Growth in the Middle East,” in: Oxford Handbook on Politics of Muslim Societies (edited by Melani Cammett and Pauline Jones). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 619-636.

Becker, Sascha O., Jared Rubin, and Ludger Woessmann. 2021. “Religion in Economic History: A Survey” in Handbook of Historical Economics (edited by Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico). London: Elsevier, p. 585-639.

Rubin, Jared. 2021. “Religion and Politics: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not.” in: Routledge Handbook on Middle East Economy (edited by Hassan Hakimian). New York: Routledge, p. 265-274.

Iyigun, Murat, Jared Rubin, and Avner Seror. 2021. “A Theory of Cultural Revivals.” European Economic Review 135(103734).

Boerner, Lars, Jared Rubin, and Battista Severgnini. 2021. “A Time to Print, A Time to Reform.” European Economic Review 138(103826).

Becker, Sascha O., Yuan Hsiao, Steven Pfaff, and Jared Rubin. 2020. “Multiplex Network Ties and the Spatial Diffusion of Radical Innovations: Martin Luther's Leadership in the Early Reformation.” American Sociological Review, 85(5): 857-894.

Rubin, Jared. 2020. “Review of Ahmet Kuru, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison.” EH.Net Economic History Services.

Rubin, Jared. 2020. “Introduction to the Special Issue on the Economics of Religion.” Journal of Demographic Economics 86(3): 207-211..

Editor, special issue on the economics of religion, Journal of Demographic Economics

Chaudhary, Latika, Jared Rubin, Sriya Iyer, and Anand Shrivastava. 2020. “Culture and Colonial Legacy: Evidence from Public Goods Games.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 173: 107-129.

Rubin, Jared. 2019. “Review of Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama, Persecution & Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom.” EH.Net Economic History Services.

Carvalho, Jean-Paul, Sriya Iyer, and Jared Rubin (eds.). 2019. Advances in the Economics of Religion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Rubin, Jared. 2019. “The Political and Economic Consequences of Religious Legitimacy.” in: Advances in the Economics of Religion (edited by Jean-Paul Carvalho, Sriya Iyer, and Jared Rubin). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 311-320.

Carvalho, Jean-Paul, Sriya Iyer, and Jared Rubin. 2019. “Introduction,” in: Advances in the Economics of Religion (edited by Jean-Paul Carvalho, Sriya Iyer, and Jared Rubin). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-21.

Hajikhameneh, Aidin, and Jared Rubin. 2019. “Exchange in the Absence of Legal Enforcement: Reputation and Multilateral Punishment under Uncertainty.” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 35(1): 192-237.

Ma, Debin, and Jared Rubin. 2019. “The Paradox of Power: Principal-Agent Problems and Administrative Capacity in Imperial China (and other Absolutist Regimes).” Journal of Comparative Economics 47(2): 277-294.

Rubin, Jared. 2018. “Review of Jean-Philippe Platteau, Islam Instrumentalized: Religion and Politics in Historical Perspective.” Journal of Economic Literature 56(4): 1601-1603.

Rubin, Jared. 2018. “Review of Bas van Bavel, The Invisible Hand? How Market Economies Have Emerged and Declined since AD 500.” EH.Net Economic History Services.

Kuran, Timur, and Jared Rubin. “The Financial Power of the Powerless,” VoxEU, April 28, 2018.

Rubin, Jared, Anya Samek, and Roman Sheremeta. 2018. “Loss Aversion and the Quantity-Quality Trade-off.” Experimental Economics 21(2): 292-315.

Kuran, Timur, and Jared Rubin. 2018. “The Financial Power of the Powerless: Socio-Economic Status and Interest Rates under Partial Rule of Law.” Economic Journal 128(609): 758-796.

Rubin, Jared. 2018. “Global Divergence and Economic Change.” in: An Economist’s Guide to Economic History (edited by Matthias Blum and Chris Colvin). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 193-200.

Rubin, Jared. 2018. “Islamic Law and Economic Development.” in: Research Handbook on the History of Corporate Law (edited by Harwell Wells). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 17-32.

Becker, Sascha O., and Jared Rubin. 2017. “The Protestant Reformation’s Impact in Europe.” in: The Long Economic Shadow of History (edited by Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou). VOX E-book, p. 63-70.

Rubin, Jared. 2017. Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not, New York: Cambridge University Press.

Rubin, Jared. "Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not," Cambridge University Press 1584 Blog, May 25, 2017.

Rubin, Jared. 2017. “Review of Metin Cosgel and Bogaç Ergene, The Economics of Ottoman Justice: Settlement and Trial in the Sharia Courts.” EH.Net Economic History Services.

Rubin, Jared, and Roman Sheremeta. 2016. “Principal-Agent Settings with Random Shocks.” Management Science 62(4): 985-999.

Rubin, Jared. 2016. “Review of Murat Iyigun, War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God.” Journal of Economic History 76(3): p. 953-954.

Chaudhary, Latika, and Jared Rubin. 2016. “Religious Identity and the Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from the Indian Princely States.” Journal of Comparative Economics 44(3): 461-483.

Becker, Sascha O., Steven Pfaff, and Jared Rubin. 2016. “Causes and Consequences of the Protestant Reformation.” Explorations in Economic History 62: 1-25.

Rubin, Jared. 2015. “Review of Murat Iyigun, War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God.” EH.Net Economic History Services.

Rubin, Jared. 2015. “Bills of Exchange, Financial Networks, and Quasi-Impersonal Exchange in Western Europe and the Middle East.” in: Union in Separation - Diasporic Groups and Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean (1100-1800) (edited by Georg Christ, Franz-Julius Morche, Roberto Zaugg, Wolfgang Kaiser, Stefan Burkhardt, and Alexander D. Beihammer). Rome: Viella, p. 545-553.

Kimbrough, Erik, Jared Rubin, Roman Sheremeta, and Timothy Shields. 2015. “Commitment Problems in Conflict Resolution.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 112: 33-45.

Kimbrough, Erik, and Jared Rubin. 2015. “Sustaining Group Reputation.” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 31(3): 599-628.

Rubin, Jared. 2014. “Islamic Institutions and Underdevelopment.” in: Handbook on Islam and Economic Life (edited by M. Kabir Hassan and Mervyn K. Lewis). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 593-609.

Rubin, Jared. 2014. “Centralized Institutions and Cascades.” Journal of Comparative Economics 42(2): 340-357.

Rubin, Jared. 2014. “Printing and Protestants: An Empirical Test of the Role of Printing in the Reformation.” Review of Economics and Statistics 96(2): 270-286.

“Endogenous Group Formation via Unproductive Costs” (with Jason A. Aimone, Laurence R. Iannaccone, and Michael D. Makowsky), Review of Economic Studies, 80(4): pp. 1215-1236

“An Agent-Based Model of Centralized Institutions, Social Network Technology, and Revolution” (with Michael D. Makowsky), PLoS ONE 8(11): e80380

“Timur Kuran’s Framework and Economic Underdevelopment in the Islamic World,” in: The Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations (edited by Joshua Hall), Beloit University Press, pp. 85-94

“Cooperation through unproductive costs,” with Jason A. Aimone, Laurence R. Iannaccone, and Michael D. Makowsky, OUPblog, July 11, 2013.

“Trade and Commerce,” in: The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (edited by Gerhard Bowering, Patricia Crone, Wadad Kadi, Devin J. Stuart, and Muhammad Qasim Zaman), Princeton University Press, pp. 552-554

"Political Legitimacy and Technology Adoption" (with Metin M. Cosgel and Thomas J. Miceli), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 168, no. 3: 339-361

“The Political Economy of Mass Printing: Legitimacy, Revolt, and Technological Change in the Ottoman Empire” (with Metin M. Cosgel and Thomas J. Miceli), Journal of Comparative Economics 40, no. 3: 357-371

"Reading, Writing, and Religion: Institutions and Human Capital Formation" (with Latika Chaudhary), Journal of Comparative Economics 39, no. 1: 17-33

"Lessons from Delphi: Religious Markets and Spiritual Capitals" (with Laurence R. Iannaccone and Colleen E. Haight), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 77, no. 3: 326-338

"Institutions, the Rise of Commerce, and the Persistence of Laws: Interest Restrictions in Islam & Christianity" Economic Journal 121, no. 557: 1310-1339.

“Institutions, religion, and the rise of Europe vis-à-vis the Middle East: A long-run reversal of fortunes,” VoxEU, December 22, 2011.

“Review of Deirdre McCloskey, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World,” EH.Net Economic History Services, February 23, 2011.

"Bills of Exchange, Interest Bans, and Impersonal Exchange in Islam and Christianity", Explorations in Economic History 47, no. 2: 213-227

"Social Insurance, Commitment, and the Origin of Law: Interest Bans in Early Christianity", Journal of Law & Economics 52, no. 4: 761-777

"The Lender’s Curse: A New Look at the Origin and Persistence of Interest Bans in Islam and Christianity", Dissertation Summary, Journal of Economic History 68, no. 2: 575-579

"Restricting Access to Books on the Internet: Some Unanticipated Effects of U.S. Copyright Legislation" (with Paul A. David), Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues 5, no. 1: 23-53

Clark, Tom, Scott A. Desmond and Christopher D. Bader. 2024. “Measuring Religious Evil: Examining the use of Single-Item Measures in Religious Research.” Review of Religious Research.

Bader, Christopher and Pete Simi. 2024. "How Many Americans Support Political Violence? A State of Science Assessment." Report to the US Department of Homeland Security.

Desmond, Scott A., Tom Clark & Christopher D. Bader. 2022. “Sympathy for the Devil: Belief in Satan and Moral Beliefs,” Deviant Behavior DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2022.2092786

Mencken, F. Carson, Christopher D. Bader and L. Edward Day. Forthcoming 2021. "Fear of Crime on Community Engagement: Nonadditive and Nonlinear Effects by Gender." The Sociological Quarterly.

Baker, Joseph O., Christopher D. Bader and Amy Edmonds. Forthcoming 2021. "Xenophobia, Partisanship, and Support for Donald Trump and the Republican Party." Race and Social Problems.

Bader, Christopher, D., Joseph O. Baker, L. Edward Day and C. Ann Gordon. 2020. Fear Itself: The Causes and Consequences of Fear in America. New York: NYU Press.

Baker, Joseph, Andrea Molle and Christopher D. Bader. (2020). "The Flesh and The Devil: Belief in Religious Evil and Views of Sexual Morality." Review of Religious Research. 62: 133-151.

Bader, Christopher. (2020). "UFO Cults." The Sage Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Bader, Christopher and Joseph O. Baker. 2019. Deviance Management: Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders and Drifters. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

Bader, Christopher, Andrea Molle, James Coyle and Benjamin Gurrentz. 2017. "For the Wrath of God: Fatalism and Images of God in Violent Regions of the World." Sociology of Religion 78(2): 173-191.

Fox, Jonathan, Christopher Bader, & Jennifer McClure “Don’t Get Mad: The Disconnect between Religious Discrimination and Individual Perceptions of Government” Conflict Management & Peace Science, 2017, DOI: 10.1177/0738894217723160.

Bader, Christopher, Joseph O. Baker and F. Carson Mencken. Paranormal America (2nd Edition). New York: NYU Press.

Finke, Roger and Christopher Bader. Faithful Measures: The Art and Science of Measuring Religion. New York: NYU Press.

Baker, Joseph O., Christopher D. Bader and F. Carson Mencken. 2016. "A Bounded Affinity Theory of Religion and the Paranormal." Sociology of Religion 77(4): 334-358.

Froese, Paul and Christopher D. Bader. (2015). American's Four Gods (2nd Edition). New York: Oxford University Press.

Bader, Christopher and Roger Finke. (2014) "Toward Assessing and Improving Survey Measures on Religion: The ARDA's Measurement Wizard." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53(3): 652-661.

Baker, Joseph O. and Christopher D. Bader. (2014). "A Social Anthropology of Ghosts in 21st Century America." Social Compass. 61:4.

Baker, Joseph O., Christopher D. Bader and Kittye Hirsch. (2014) "Desecration, Moral Boundaries, and the Movement of Law: The Case of Westboro Baptist Church." Deviant Behavior 36(1): 42-67.

Molle, Andrea and Christopher D. Bader. The Birth of "Paranormal Science" in Italy. (2013). In Paranormal Cultures, edited by Olu Jenzen and Sally R. Munt. London: Ashgate.

Desmond, Scott, Jeffrey Ulmer and Christopher D. Bader. (2013). "Religion, Self Control and Substance Use." Deviant Behavior. 34:5, 384-406.

Bader, Christopher, Joseph O. Baker and Andrea Molle. (2012).

"Countervailing Forces: Religiosity and Paranormal Belief in Italy." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 51(4): 705-720.

Bader, Christopher and Ashley Palmer. 2011. "Scared into Church? Conceptions of God, Exclusivity, and Religious Practice in the United States." Religion, Spirituality and Everyday Practice, edited by Giuseppe Giordan and William H. Swatos, Jr. New York: Springer.

Finke, Roger, Christopher D. Bader and Andrew Whitehead. (2011). "Innovations in the Development and Use of Social Science Data Archives." Leadership in Science and Technology: A Reference Handbook, edited by William Sims Bainbridge.

Finke, Roger and Christopher D. Bader. (2011). “Data and Directions for Research in the Economics of Religion.” The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion, edited by Rachel McCleary. Oxford University Press.

Bader, Christopher, Scott Desmond, F. Carson Mencken and Byron Johnson. (2010) "Divine Justice: How Images of God Impact Attitudes Toward Criminal Punishment." Criminal Justice Review 35(1): 90-106.

Bader, Christopher D., F. Carson Mencken and Joseph Baker. (October, 2010) Paranormal America: Ghost encounters, UFO sightings, Bigfoot hunts and other Curiosities in Religion and Culture. NYU Press.

Paul Froese and Christopher D. Bader. (October, 2010) America's Four Gods: What we say about God and what that says about us. Oxford University Press.

Bader, Christopher D. and Roger Finke. (2010). “Religion and Moral Attitudes.” Handbook on the Sociology of Morality, edited by Steven Hitlin and Steven Vaisey. Springer.

Toro, Matthew and Steven Pfaff. 2024. “Promises Betrayed? Ideological Commitments and Revolutionary Outcomes.” Online first, Rationality & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/10434631241298068

Doten-Snitker, Kerice, Steven Pfaff and Yuan Hsiao. 2024. “Ideational Diffusion and the Great Witch Hunt in Central Europe.” Online first, Theory & Society. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-024-09576-1

Gaddis, S. Michael, Charles Crabtree, John Holbein and Steven Pfaff. 2024 “Local Political Party Voting Context Moderates Public School Principals’ Levels of Racial/Ethnic Discrimination.” SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4767032 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4767032

Review of James Delgado, The Curse of the Somers: The Secret History Behind the U.S. Navy’s Most Infamous Mutiny (Oxford, 2022), in International Journal of Maritime History, summer 2024.

Molle, A., Haynes, J. (2024) “Political Violence and Religion”, in Haynes, J. (ed) The Routledge Handbook of Politics and Religion in Contemporary America. London: Routledge.

Molle, A. (2024) “Tehran’s proxy war in the Middle East”, in Pagani, A. (ed) Europe and the wars of our time. Cespi Yearbook. Rome: Donzelli.

Molle, A. (2023) “Exploring Militant Accelerationism from the Far-Left to the Far-Right”, in Bertolotti C. (ed). 5th REACT Report on Terrorism and Radicalization in Europe. Lugano: START InSight Editions.

https://www.huffingtonpost.it/autori/andrea_molle/

Molle, A. (2023) Pandemic emergency and Defense: quantitative and/or qualitative analysis of the critical issues and vulnerabilities that emerged during the deployment phase and strategic impact, IRAD Reports, Institute for Defense Research and Analysis (Italian MoD)

Molle, A. (2023) “The collapse of the democratic state" the overriding citizens movements”, in Bertolotti C. (ed). 4th REACT Report on Terrorism and Radicalization in Europe. Lugano: Edizioni START InSight.

Molle, A. (2022) “Civil Unrest and COVID-19 between militant conspiracy theories and NoVAX movements” Lugano: Edizioni START InSight.

Molle, A. (2022) “Dugin’s Neo-Eurasian Design”, AirPress, n.1 April (132).

Molle, A. (2022) "SIMTERRORISM. Modeling religious terrorism in

populations impacted by climate change", Lugano: Edizioni START InSight.

Molle, A. (2022) “The Manson Family”, in L. Cox Han and T. Han (eds) Political Violence in America [2 volumes]: Historical Flashpoints and Modern-Day Trends. ABC. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio.

Springs, A. (2022). “A new wave of 'Space Nationalism' in the United States: why are Evangelicals good with it?”, Space Policy, 101523.

Molle, A. (2022) For Zion' sake: Krav Maga and the Making of Modern Israel. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield International.

Molle, A. (2021) “Conspiracy theories from pop culture to violent militancy: the NoVax paradox”, in Bertolotti C. (ed). 3rd REACT Report on Terrorism and Radicalization in Europe. Lugano: START InSight Editions.

Meyer, M., Molle, A., Judkins, B. & Bowman, P. (2021). “Martial Arts in the Pandemic.” Martial Arts Studies, 11, pp.7–31.

Molle, A. (2021) “The terrorist movement of QAnon: its evolution from the Pizzagate to the assault on Capitol Hill”, START InSight

Molle, A. (2021) “QAnon: the new global threat?”, START InSight

Molle, A. (2021) “Conspiracy theories: a clear and present danger to national security and global stability?”, START InSight

Tenzi L., Molle, A. (2021) “Chaos at Capitol Hill: what went wrong?”, START InSight

Molle, A. (2021) “The end of Trump is not the end of QAnon, the Trojan horse of the far right”, Formiche.net

Mor, G., Molle, A. (2021) "Should the State of Israel pursue Krav Maga as an intangible cultural heritage of the Jewish people? History and politics say yes", International Journal of Martial Arts, 7, pp. 10-19

Gersi, A., Molle, A. (2021) “Is the enemy of my enemy my friend? The Middle East after the Abraham Accords”, Conscience and Freedom.

Molle, A. (2020) “Immigration, why the naval blockade is unfeasible”, Formiche.net

Molle, A. (2020) “War and Peace in the Mediterranean: understanding the Turkish escalation between the Chinese expansionism in Africa and the reshaping of Middle Eastern equilibria”, START InSight

Molle, A. (2020) “SARS-COV-2 and the (dark) future of society: a Machiavellian approach to the end of body sovereignty and the beginning of bio-feudalism”, Sociologica. International Journal for Sociological Debate, 14(3), pp. 25-41

Gjerstad, S., Molle, A. (2020) “Comorbidity Factors Influence COVID-19 Mortality Much More than Age"

Molle, A. (2020) “Estimating the number of unidentified cases of COVID-19 in Italy as of March 31st using South Korean and Chinese mortality rates”, START InSight.

Molle, A., (2020) “Nation of Warriors: The Impact of Krav Maga on the Ethno-Religious Identity of the Jewish People”, OnIrAsia (Aix-Marseille Univ – France), 6th Martial Arts Studies Conference.

Baker JO, Molle, A. & Bader, C.D. (2020) “The Flesh and The Devil: Belief in Religious Evil and Views of Sexual Morality”, Review of Religious Research, 61(1), pp. 133-151

Molle, A. (2019) “Religion and Right-wing Populism in Italy: Using 'Judeo-Christian roots' to kill the European Union”, Religion, State & Society, 47(1), pp. 157-168

Gobo, G., Molle A. (2017). Doing ethnography (2nd Edition). Wise.

Bader, C. D., Molle, A., Gurrentz, B., & Coyle, J. J. (2017). "For the Wrath of God: Fatalism and Images of God in Violent Regions of the World.", Sociology of Religion, 78(2), pp. 173-191.

Molle, A., (2017) “Panem et Circenses: Do martial arts make less violent citizens and promote social conformity?” Proceedings of the 50th Japanese Academy of Budo Conference.

Molle, A. (2016) “Alexander C. Bennett, Kendo: The Culture of the Sword”, Martial Arts Studies, 1(2), pp. 113-116.

Molle, A., Bader, CD (2013) “Paranormal science from America to Italy: a case of cultural homogenization”, in O. Jenzen & SR Munt (eds.) The Ashgate Research Companion To Paranormal Cultures. London: Ashgate Publishing.

Molle, A. (2013) “The Italian East”, in E. Pace (ed.) Religions in a Changing Italy, pp. 73-83. Rome: Carocci.

Bader, C.D., Baker, J.O. & Molle, A. (2012) “Countervailing Forces: Religiosity and Paranormal Belief in Italy”, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 51(4), pp. 705-720.

Molle, A. (2010) “Towards a sociology of budo' Spirituality: Studying the implicit religious issues”, Implicit Religion, 13, pp. 85-104.

Molle, A., Sterchele D. (2011). Religions and Society. Journal of Social Sciences of Religion, 71. Special Issue on Religion and Sport. IN ITALIAN

Molle, A. (2011) “Spiritual Life in Modern Japan: Understanding Religion in Everyday Life”, in G. Giordan & W. H. Swatos (eds.) Religion, Spirituality and Everyday Practice, pp. 131-139. New York: Springer.

Molle, A. “MERCS: Models of Emerging Religious Conflict in Society”, poster presented at the 1st JSPS Multidisciplinary Science Forum, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, [http://www.jspsusa.org/Alumni_association/20110311_MSF/20110311_Proceedings_of_MSF.pdf].

“Mahikari no Waza: Possession, Illness, and Purification in a New Japanese Religious Movement,” in M. Bontempi & A. Maturo (eds.) Salute e Salvezza, pp. 181–194. Milan: Franco Angeli. IN ITALIAN

New Religious Movements. Rome: Carocci. IN ITALIAN

with Brown, DHK, and Jennings, G. “Faith in the martial arts: Exploring relationships between Asian martial arts and religion,” STADION, 35(2009), pp. 47-66. [published in 2011]

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