Rodney Stark

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Rodney Stark is an American sociologist of religion. Stark is as of 2006 teaching at Baylor University. He is a major and respected advocate of the application of Rational choice theory in the sociology of religion.

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Stark has published 27 books and 138 articles according to his Curriculum Vitae. The list below is incomplete; see his Curriculum Vitae for the full list.

  • The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult formation (1985), with William Sims Bainbridge
  • The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History (1996)
  • Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion (2000), with Roger Finke
  • One True God: Historical Consequence of Monotheism (2001)
  • For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery (2003)
  • Exploring the Religious Life (2004)
  • The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success (2005)
  • The Rise of Mormonism (2005)

  • Rodney Stark and John Lofland Becoming a World- Saver: A Theory of Conversion to a Deviant Perspective American Sociological Review of 1965. (an early and influential conversion theory based on the observations of the then unknown Unification Church)
  • Rodney Stark and Williams Sims Bainbridge (1979) Of Churches, Sects, and Cults: Preliminary Concepts for a Theory of Religious Movements Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 18, no 2: 117-33

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