| Religion online: Finding faith on the Internet LL Dawson, DE Cowan Psychology Press, 2004 | 660 | 2004 |
| Comprehending cults: The sociology of new religious movements LL Dawson Oxford Univ. Press, 2007 | 480 | 2007 |
| Talking to Foreign Fighters: Insights into the Motivations for Hijrah to Syria and Iraq LL Dawson, A Amarasingam Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 40 (3), 191-210, 2017 | 229 | 2017 |
| New religions and the Internet: Recruiting in a new public space LL Dawson, J Hennebry Journal of contemporary religion 14 (1), 17-39, 1999 | 194 | 1999 |
| Researching religion in cyberspace: Issues and strategies LL Dawson Religion on the Internet, 25-54, 2000 | 192 | 2000 |
| Cults and new religious movements: A reader LL Dawson Blackwell, 2003 | 172 | 2003 |
| Shop'til you drop: Shopping as recreational and laborious activity R Prus, L Dawson Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, 145-164, 1991 | 162 | 1991 |
| When prophecy fails and faith persists: A theoretical overview LL Dawson Nova Religio 3 (1), 60-82, 1999 | 158 | 1999 |
| Religion and the quest for virtual community LL Dawson Religion Online, 75-90, 2013 | 148 | 2013 |
| The mediation of religious experience in cyberspace LL Dawson Religion and cyberspace, 15-37, 2005 | 136 | 2005 |
| The study of new religious movements and the radicalization of home-grown terrorists: Opening a dialogue LL Dawson Terrorism and Political Violence 22 (1), 1-21, 2009 | 123 | 2009 |
| Anti-modernism, modernism, and postmodernism: Struggling with the cultural significance of new religious movements LL Dawson Sociology of Religion 59 (2), 131-156, 1998 | 123 | 1998 |
| Who joins new religious movements and why: Twenty years of research and what have we learned? LL Dawson Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 25 (2), 141-161, 1996 | 118 | 1996 |
| Crises of charismatic legitimacy and violent behavior in new religious movements LL Dawson Cults, Religion, and Violence, 80-101, 2002 | 102 | 2002 |
| Self-affirmation, freedom, and rationality: Theoretically elaborating" active" conversions L Dawson Journal for the scientific study of religion, 141-163, 1990 | 86 | 1990 |
| The neglected role of charismatic authority in the study of terrorist groups and radicalization DC Hofmann, LL Dawson Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 37 (4), 348-368, 2014 | 78 | 2014 |
| The cultural significance of new religious movements and globalization: A theoretical prolegomenon LL Dawson Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 580-595, 1998 | 73 | 1998 |
| Challenging the curious erasure of religion from the study of religious terrorism LL Dawson Numen 65 (2-3), 141-164, 2018 | 71 | 2018 |
| Psychopathologies and the attribution of charisma: A critical introduction to the psychology of charisma and the explanation of violence in new religious movements LL Dawson Nova Religio 10 (2), 3-28, 2006 | 65 | 2006 |
| Interactionist ethnography and postmodernist discourse: Affinities and disjunctures in approaching human lived experience LL Dawson, RC Prus Studies in symbolic interaction 15, 147-177, 1993 | 60 | 1993 |
