2025
“How I Fell for Guns,” Contexts 24:3 (Summer 2025):68–70.
“Guns in America: A liberal gun-owning sociologist offers 5 observations to understand America’s culture of firearms,” The Conversation, 1 May 2025.
2023
Review of American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center Forum, 27 November 2023.
Review: American Gun Offers Only Part of the AR-15’s Story, The Reload, 9 November 2023.
“Guns are Normal and Normal People Use Guns,” University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center Forum, 14 August 2023.
David Yamane, “Gun Culture 2.0: Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America,” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , Volume 704, Issue 1 (November 2022, published online first June 2023).
“Taking Students to the Range to Learn About Gun Culture Firsthand,” Uncommon Courses, The Conversation, 26 June 2023.
David Yamane, “Understanding and Misunderstanding American Gun Culture and Violence,” Journal of Lutheran Ethics, Volume 23, Issue 2 (April/May 2023).
Review of A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah by Matteo Bortolini, International Sociology 38:2 (March 2023).
2022
“What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Gun Safety,’” The BulletPoints Project, California Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis, 18 October 2022.
“Guns are Normal and Normal People Use Guns,” The Reload, 14 June 2022.
Trent Steidley and David Yamane, “Special Issue Editor’s Introduction: A Sociology of Firearms for the 21st Century,” Sociological Perspectives (February 2022).
2021
David Yamane, Riley Satterwhite, and Paul Yamane, “A Woman’s Place in Gun Advertisements: The American Rifleman, 1920-2019,” in Craig Hovey and Lisa Fischer, eds., Understanding America’s Gun Culture, 2nd Edition (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021).
“Understanding and Misunderstanding America’s Gun Culture,” in Craig Hovey and Lisa Fischer, eds., Understanding America’s Gun Culture, 2nd Edition (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021).
David Yamane, Jesse DeDeyne, and Alonso Octavio Aravena Méndez, “Who Are the Liberal Gun Owners?” Sociological Inquiry, 91:2 (May 2021).
“Gun Culture 2.0 and the Great Gun-Buying Spree of 2020,” Discourse, 2 February 2021.
2020
David Yamane, Paul Yamane, and Sebastian L. Ivory, “Targeted Advertising: Documenting the emergence of Gun Culture 2.0 in Guns magazine, 1955–2019,” Palgrave Communications 6, Article 61 (2020).
2019
David Yamane, Sebastian L. Ivory, and Paul C. Yamane, “The Rise of Self-Defense in Gun Advertising: The American Rifleman, 1918-2017,” in Jennifer Carlson, Kristen Goss, and Harel Shapira, eds., Guns: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Politics, Policy, and Practice (New York: Routledge, 2019).
“’The First Rule of Gunfighting is Have a Gun’: Technologies of Concealed Carry in Gun Culture 2.0,” in Jonathan Obert, Andrew Poe, and Austin Sarat, eds., The Lives of Guns (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
2017
“What’s Next? Understanding and Misunderstanding America’s Gun Culture,” pp. 157-68 in Craig Hovey and Lisa Fischer, eds., Understanding America’s Gun Culture (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017).
“Sociology of Religion,” in Kathleen Korgen, ed., The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology (New York: Cambridge University Press).
“The Sociology of U.S. Gun Culture,” Sociology Compass 11:7 (July 2017). DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12497
2016
“Awash in a Sea of Faith and Firearms: Rediscovering the Connection between Religion and Gun Ownership in America,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55:3 (September 2016):622-636.
“Sport,” pp. 67-87 in David Yamane, ed., Handbook of Religion and Society (New York: Springer).
“Introduction,” pp. 1-7 in David Yamane, ed., Handbook of Religion and Society (New York: Springer, 2016).
2014
“Initiation into America’s Original Megachurch,” “Reinventing Rites of Passage in Contemporary America,” and “Easter Rite of Initiation Bring Good News for American Catholics,” Oxford University Press blog, 18-20 April, 2014.
2012
“Initiation Rites in the Contemporary Catholic Church: What Difference Do They Make?” Review of Religious Research 54:4 (December):401-420.
2011
“Thoughts on Teaching on the Occasion of Publishing a Sociology of Religion Textbook, or Textbook Pedagogy,” American Sociological Association Religion Section Newsletter 12 (Summer 2011):6.
2010
“Playing for Whom? Sport, Religion, and the Double-Movement of Secularization in America,” pp. 81-94 in Earl Smith, ed., Sociology of Sport and Social Theory (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics).
2009
“Welcome to Sociology of Religion 2.0,” Sociology of Religion 70(1):1-4.
2007
“Introduction: Habits of the Heart at 20,” for a symposium on the 20th anniversary of Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. Sociology of Religion 68(2):179-87.
“Beyond Beliefs: Religion and the Sociology of Religion in America.” Social Compass 54(1):33-48.
“Civil Religion,” pp. 506-7 in George Ritzer, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Volume II. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
2006
“Religion in the Legislative Arena: Affiliation, Salience, Advocacy, and Public Policy-Making,” with Elizabeth Oldmixon. Legislative Studies Quarterly 31 (August):433-60.
“Course Preparation Assignments: A Strategy for Creating Discussion-Based Courses.” Teaching Sociology 34 (July):236-48.
“Religious Advocacy in the Wisconsin Statehouse,” pp. 151-76 in Edward Cleary, ed., Representing God at the Statehouse: Religion and Politics in the American States. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
2004
“Nuevos Pasos Hacia una Sociología de la Experiencia Religiosa: Comprensión del Significado a Través de la Narrativa,” pp. 51-72 in José Pérez Vilariño, ed., Religión y Sociedad en España y los Estados Unidos: Homenaje a Richard A. Schoenherr. Madid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas.
“Representing Catholicism in the Statehouses,” American Catholic Studies Newsletter 31 (Spring 2004):1, 7-10. (Published by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame).
2003
“Non-Hispanic Catholics in the 2004 Election,” Religion in the News 6 (Fall 2003, Supplement): 5, 17.
“The Bishops and Politics,” Commonweal (23 May 2003): 17-20.
2000
“Naked Public Square or Crumbling Wall of Separation? Evidence from Legislative Hearings in Wisconsin.” Review of Religious Research 42 (December):175-92.
“Narrative and Religious Experience.” Sociology of Religion 61 (Summer):171-89.
1999
“Faith and Access: Personal Religiosity and Religious Group Advocacy in a State Legislature.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 38 (December):543‑50.
1998
“A Sociologist Comments on Sommerville: The Whole is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 37 (June):254-56.
1997
“Secularization on Trial: In Defense of a Neo-Secularization Paradigm.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 36 (March):107-20.
“Religious Experience,” “William James,” “Robert N. Bellah,” “Pentecostals,” “Charismatic Movement,” and 10 other entries in William Swatos, Jr., ed., Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.
“Where Angels Fear to Tread: Richard Schoenherr (1935-1996),” with Elizabeth Park. The American Sociologist 28 (Spring):136-42.
1996
“The Battle of the Books at Berkeley: In Search of the Culture Wars in Debates Over Multiculturalism” in James L. Nolan, Jr., ed., The American Culture Wars: Current Contests and Future Prospects. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia.
“Collaboration and Its Discontents: Steps Toward Overcoming Barriers to Successful Group Research Projects.” Teaching Sociology 24 (October):378-83.
“Life as a Seamless Garment: Richard Schoenherr (1935-1996),” with Elizabeth Park. Sociology of Religion 57 (Fall):319-21.
“Reply to Scheff,” Teaching Sociology 23 (January 1996):54-55.
1994
“Ways of Seeing Ecstasy in Modern Society: Experiential-Expressive and Cultural-Linguistic Views,” with Megan Polzer. Sociology of Religion 55 (Spring):1-25. (Reprinted in Sociology of Religion, edited by S. Monahan, W. Mirola, and M. Emerson [Prentice‑Hall, 2000]; Nominated for Outstanding Article Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion).
“Professional Socialization for What?” American Sociological Association Footnotes (March 1994):7.
“The View from Below: A Student’s Response to Profscam,” Teaching Sociology 22 (January 1994):81-86.