Louisa Roberts

Dr. Roberts' research explores the direction in which our cultural beliefs and world views are moving -- especially on a global scale. She is currently working to complete a 3-article project on change over time in worldwide religiosity. This project examines international survey data to understand whether (as secularization theorists have proposed) modernization indeed makes people less religious. Dr. Roberts wrote her dissertation, and has previously published, on the partial globalization of the acceptance of homosexuality. In other prior research, she has examined moral dimensions of the legal response to the Rwandan genocide. She has also co-authored a book with Cambridge University Press on the historic use and evolution of left-wing anti-Semitic rhetoric in West European politics.

Global Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Statistical Research Methods, Medical Sociology, Courtship and Marriage, Introduction to Sociology

Understanding and explaining trends in worldwide religiosity, Globalization of culture and ideas

Roberts, Louisa, Is the West Exceptional in Experiencing Religious Decline? Worldwide Trends and Generational Patterns in Religiosity, 1981-2020. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles. (August 06, 2022)
Roberts, Louisa, Do Modern Conditions Cause Secularization? An Analysis of Trends in and Influences on Worldwide Religiosity, 1981-2014. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association (August 10, 2021)
Roberts, Louisa, Do Modern Social Conditions Really Make People Less Religious? An Analysis of Worldwide Data, 1981-2014. Presented at the Website of the Global Religion Research Initiative, Web presentaiton. (May 2021)
Roberts, Louisa, Is Religious Decline Confined to the West? An Analysis of Worldwide Change in Average Levels of Religiosity and Variation across Generations, 1981-2020". Presented at the Website of the Global Religion Research Initiative, Web presentation. (May 2021)
Roberts, Louisa, Is Religious Decline Confined to the West? An Analysis of Worldwide Change in Average Levels of Religiosity and Variation across Generations, 1981-2020". Presented at the Second Annual Social Science Interdisciplinary Consortium (SSIC) Conference, Vermillion, SD. (April 2021)
Roberts, Louisa, "Do Modern Social Conditions Really Make People Less Religious? An Analysis of Worldwide Data, 1981-2014". Presented at the First Annual Social Science Interdisciplinary Consortium (SSIC) Conference, online (due to covid). (December 2020)
Roberts, Louisa, "Do Modern Social Conditions Cause Secularization? An Analysis of Trends in and Influences on Worldwide Religiosity, 1981-2014" . Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association (Cancelled Due to Covid-19) (August 11, 2020)
Roberts, Louisa, "Do Modern Social Conditions Reduce Religiosity, and Do They Do So Universally? An Examination of Trends in and Influences on Worldwide Religiosity, 1981-2014" . Presented at the Research and Analysis in the Study of Religion (RASR) Workshop, South Bend, IN. (March 2020)
Roberts, Louisa L., Is Cultural Globalization Shaping the Ideological Structure of Worldwide Attitudes? The Influence of Individualism as an Organizing Principle, 1994 to 2012. Presented at the Future of World Society Theory Mini-Conference, New York, NY. (August 09, 2019)
Roberts, Louisa L., Explaining Changing Levels of Religiosity, Worldwide: What Role for Wealth and Cultural Globalization?. Presented at the Younger Scholars in the Sociology of Religion Conference, South Bend, Indiana. (April 26, 2019)
Roberts, Louisa, Global Policy Diffusion via Domestic Public Opinion? The Case of Same-Sex Unions and Anti-Discrimination Policy. Presented at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting Pre-Conference: The Sociology of International Organizations, Philadelphia, PA. (August 10, 2018)

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