| The elusive dream: The power of race in interracial churches KL Edwards OUP USA, 2008 | 279 | 2008 |
| Against all odds: The struggle for racial integration in religious organizations B Christerson, KL Edwards, MOO Emerson NYU Press, 2005 | 231 | 2005 |
| Race, religious organizations, and integration KL Edwards, B Christerson, MO Emerson Annual Review of Sociology 39, 211-228, 2013 | 136 | 2013 |
| Bring race to the center: The importance of race in racially diverse religious organizations KL Edwards Journal for the scientific study of religion 47 (1), 5-9, 2008 | 82 | 2008 |
| Growing up in America: The power of race in the lives of teens B Christerson, KL Edwards, RW Flory Stanford University Press, 2010 | 63 | 2010 |
| For richer, for poorer, whether dark or light: Skin tone, marital status, and spouse’s earnings K Edwards, K Carter-Tellison, C Herring Skin deep: How race and complexion matter in the “color-blind” era, 65-81, 2004 | 55 | 2004 |
| Race, religion, and worship: Are contemporary African‐American worship practices distinct? KL Edwards Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48 (1), 30-52, 2009 | 51 | 2009 |
| Role strain theory and understanding the role of head clergy of racially diverse churches KL Edwards Sociology of Religion 75 (1), 57-79, 2014 | 48 | 2014 |
| Estranged pioneers: The case of African American and Asian American multiracial church pastors KL Edwards, R Kim Sociology of religion 80 (4), 456-477, 2019 | 30 | 2019 |
| INSTITUTIONAL PATTERNS AND TRANSFORMATIONS: RACE AND ETHNICITY IN HOUSING, Education, LABOR MARKETS AE Lewis, M Krysan, SM Collins, K Edwards, G Ward The changing terrain of race and ethnicity, 67, 2004 | 29 | 2004 |
| Presidential address: Religion and power—A return to the roots of social scientific scholarship KL Edwards Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 58 (1), 5-19, 2019 | 24 | 2019 |
| Doing identity: Power and the reproduction of collective identity in racially diverse congregations KB Priest, KL Edwards Sociology of Religion 80 (4), 518-541, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
| The space between: Exploring how religious leaders reconcile religion and politics KL Edwards Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55 (2), 271-287, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
| Smart suits, tattered boots: Black ministers mobilizing the Black church in the twenty-first century KL Edwards, M Oyakawa Smart Suits, Tattered Boots, 2022 | 12 | 2022 |
| Deconstructing a research journey: Methods and lessons of the religious leadership and diversity project KL Edwards Sociology of Religion 80 (4), 415-434, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| Much ado about nothing? Rethinking the efficacy of multiracial churches for racial reconciliation KL Edwards Christians and the color line, 231-254, 2014 | 9 | 2014 |
| Divine callings: Understanding the call to ministry in black Pentecostalism KL Edwards Sociology of Religion 73 (3), 345-346, 2012 | 4 | 2012 |
| Estranged Pioneers: Race, Faith, and Leadership in a Diverse World KL Edwards, RY Kim Oxford University Press, 2024 | 2 | 2024 |
| Seeing Bellah’s civil religion through a black feminist lens KL Edwards Civil religion today, 95-117, 2021 | 2 | 2021 |
| Beyond segregation: Understanding how interracial churches work KL Edwards University of Illinois at Chicago, 2004 | 2 | 2004 |
