| Elective affinities of the Protestant ethic: Weber and the chemistry of capitalism AM McKinnon Sociological Theory 28 (1), 108-126, 2010 | 142 | 2010 |
| Sociological definitions, language games, and the" essence" of religion A McKinnon Method & Theory in the study of Religion 14 (1), 61-83, 2002 | 129 | 2002 |
| ReadingOpium of the People': Expression, protest and the dialectics of religion AM McKinnon Critical Sociology 31 (1-2), 15-38, 2005 | 122 | 2005 |
| Ideology and the market metaphor in rational choice theory of religion: A rhetorical critique of ‘religious economies’ AM McKinnon Critical Sociology 39 (4), 529-543, 2013 | 65 | 2013 |
| Bourdieu, capital, and conflict in a religious field: The case of the ‘homosexuality’conflict in the Anglican communion AM McKinnon, M Trzebiatowska, CC Brittain Journal of Contemporary Religion 26 (3), 355-370, 2011 | 64 | 2011 |
| Homosexuality and the construction of “Anglican orthodoxy”: The symbolic politics of the Anglican communion CC Brittain, A McKinnon Sociology of Religion 72 (3), 351-373, 2011 | 54 | 2011 |
| Opium as dialectics of religion: metaphor, expression and protest AM McKinnon Marxism, Critical Theory and Religion, 11-29, 2006 | 53 | 2006 |
| Sociological epistemology: Durkheim’s paradox and Dorothy E. Smith’s actuality RJ Hart, A McKinnon Sociology 44 (6), 1038-1054, 2010 | 52 | 2010 |
| The religious, the paranormal, and church attendance: A response to Orenstein AM McKinnon Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42 (2), 299-303, 2003 | 52 | 2003 |
| Sociological theory and the question of religion A McKinnon, M Trzebiatowska Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2014 | 47* | 2014 |
| Energy and society: Herbert Spencer’s ‘energetic sociology’of social evolution and beyond AM McKinnon Journal of Classical Sociology 10 (4), 439-455, 2010 | 45 | 2010 |
| Religion and social class: Theory and method after Bourdieu A McKinnon Sociological Research Online 22 (1), 161-173, 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
| Christians, Muslims and traditional worshippers in Nigeria: Estimating the relative proportions from eleven nationally representative social surveys A McKinnon Review of religious research 63 (2), 303-315, 2021 | 28 | 2021 |
| George Herbert Mead on humans and other animals: social relations after human-animal studies R Wilkie, A McKinnon Sociological Research Online 18 (4), 182-194, 2013 | 25 | 2013 |
| Elementary forms of the metaphorical life: Tropes at work in Durkheim’s theory of the religious A McKinnon Journal of Classical Sociology 14 (2), 203-221, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| Belonging without believing: Religion and attitudes towards gay marriage and abortion rights in Northern Ireland BC Hayes, A McKinnon Religion, State & Society 46 (4), 351-366, 2018 | 21 | 2018 |
| The sociology of religion: The foundations A McKinnon The new Blackwell companion to the sociology of religion, 33-51, 2010 | 20 | 2010 |
| Metaphors in and for the Sociology of Religion: Towards a Theory after Nietzsche AM McKinnon Journal of Contemporary Religion 27 (2), 203-216, 2012 | 19 | 2012 |
| The Anglican Communion at a crossroads: The crises of a global church CC Brittain, A McKinnon Penn State Press, 2018 | 14 | 2018 |
| Demography of Anglicans in Sub-Saharan Africa: Estimating the Population of Anglicans in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda A McKinnon Journal of Anglican Studies 18 (1), 42-60, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
