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Rodney Stark

Sociology

#31

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#56

Historical Rank

#17

USA Rank

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Sociology

Rodney Stark's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Social Science University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Rodney William Stark was an American sociologist of religion who was a longtime professor of sociology and of comparative religion at the University of Washington. At the time of his death he was the Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University, co-director of the university's Institute for Studies of Religion, and founding editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion.

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Rodney Stark's Published Works

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Religion and society in tension (1966) (1050)
The Churching of America, 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy (1993) (869)
The future of religion: Secularization, revival, and cult formation (1980) (794)
A supply-side reinterpretation of the secularization' of Europe (1994) (720)
American Piety the Nature of Religious Commitment (1968) (621)
Hellfire and Delinquency (1969) (539)
RELIGIOUS ECONOMIES AND SACRED CANOPIES: RELIGIOUS MOBILIZATION IN AMERICAN CITIES, 1906* (1988) (473)
Secularization, R.I.P. (1999) (467)
A Theory of Religion (1987) (461)
Gender and Religiousness: Can Socialization Explanations Be Saved?1 (2002) (454)
DEVIANT PLACES: A THEORY OF THE ECOLOGY OF CRIME (1987) (437)
Religion as Context: Hellfire and Delinquency One More Time* (1996) (390)
Book Review: The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History (1996) (389)
Networks of Faith: Interpersonal Bonds and Recruitment to Cults and Sects (1980) (358)
Physiology and Faith: Addressing the “Universal” Gender Difference in Religious Commitment (2002) (339)
Christian beliefs and anti-Semitism (1967) (297)
Religion and Delinquency: the Ecology of a "Lost" Relationship (1982) (264)
Deregulating religion: the economics of church and state (1997) (240)
The rise of Christianity : how the obscure, marginal Jesus movement became the dominant religious force in the Western world in a few centuries (1997) (219)
Religion, deviance, and social control (1997) (193)
Mobilizing local religious markets : Religious pluralism in the Empire State, 1855 to 1865 (1996) (171)
Of Churches, Sects, and Cults: Preliminary Concepts for a Theory of Religious Movements (1979) (157)
Gods, Rituals, and the Moral Order (2001) (153)
Religious Choice and Competition (1998) (150)
One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism (2001) (144)
Religion, Science, and Rationality (1996) (142)
The Rise of Christianity (2020) (141)
Religions Resources and Church Growth (1995) (131)
Why the Jehovah's witnesses grow so rapidly: A theoretical application (1997) (130)
Why religious movements succeed or fail: A revised general model (1996) (122)
Beyond Durkheim: Religion and Suicide (1983) (122)
The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success (2005) (122)
The Rise of a New World Faith (1984) (121)
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT (1971) (119)
Towards a Theory of Religion: Religious Commitment (1980) (119)
Market forces and catholic commitment: exploring the new paradigm (1993) (113)
Secularization in the Netherlands ? Authors's replies (1996) (105)
Religion and Conformity: Reaffirming a Sociology of Religion (1984) (97)
Turning Pews Into People: Estimating 19th Century Church Membership (1986) (94)
Pluralism and piety : England and Wales, 1851 (1995) (92)
Rationality and the "Religious Mind." (1998) (91)
Do Catholic Societies Really Exist? (1992) (89)
Exploring Spirituality and Unchurched Religions in America, Sweden, and Japan (2005) (87)
Micro Foundations of Religion: A Revised Theory* (1999) (81)
Reconceptualizing religion, magic, and science (2001) (77)
For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery (2003) (77)
How the Upstart Sects Won America: 1776-1850 (1989) (76)
On the Incompatibility of Religion and Science: A Survey of American Graduate Students (1963) (74)
The religious dimension : new directions in quantitative research (1980) (73)
Cult Formation: Three Compatible Models (1979) (73)
FAITH AND HAPPINESS (2008) (72)
Catholic religious vocations: Decline and revival (2000) (69)
Friendship, Religion, and the Occult: A Network Study (1981) (66)
Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief (2007) (59)
American Piety: The Nature of Religious Commitment. (1968) (58)
Evaluating the Evidence: Religious Economies and Sacred Canopies (1989) (55)
Police Riots: Collective Violence and Law Enforcement. (1973) (55)
Wayward Shepherds: Prejudice and the Protestant Clergy. (1972) (51)
The 'Consciousness Reformation' Reconsidered (1981) (47)
What Americans Really Believe (2008) (46)
The New Holy Clubs: Testing Church-to-Sect Propositions (2001) (46)
Response to Lechner: Recent Religious Declines in Quebec, Poland, and the Netherlands: A Theory Vindicated (1996) (41)
Class, Radicalism, and Religious Involvement in Great Britain (1964) (39)
German and German American Religiousness: Approximating a Crucial Experiment (1997) (38)
Atheism, faith, and the social scientific study of religion (1999) (37)
THE NEW DENOMINATIONALISM (1965) (37)
Exploring the Religious Life (2004) (36)
Patterns of Religious Commitment. (1969) (34)
Deregulation and The Religious Market in Taiwan: A Research Note (2008) (33)
Crime and Delinquency in the Roaring Twenties (1983) (33)
A theory of revelations (1999) (33)
American Religion in 1776: A Statistical Portrait (1988) (32)
Catholic contexts : Competition, commitment and innovation (1998) (32)
Discriminatory Labeling and the Five-Finger Discount (1974) (32)
SSSR Presidential Address, 2004: Putting an End to Ancestor Worship (2004) (31)
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion: The Dynamics of Religious Economies (2003) (31)
Scientology: To Be Perfectly Clear (1980) (30)
Cities of God (2006) (29)
Europe's receptivity to new religious movements: round two (1993) (26)
Age and Faith: A Changing Outlook or an Old Process? (1968) (26)
Correcting Church Membership Rates: 1971 and 1980 (1987) (26)
So Far, So Good: A Brief Assessment of Mormon Membership Projections (1996) (25)
How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity (2014) (25)
Religions in context: The response of non-Mormon faiths in Utah (2004) (24)
Whose Status Counts (1979) (23)
Upper class asceticism: Social origins of ascetic movements and medieval saints : Applying theory (2003) (23)
Client and Audience Cults in America (1980) (23)
A Taxonomy of Religious Experience (1965) (23)
Reconstructing the Rise of Christianity: The Role of Women (1995) (21)
Religious movements: Genesis, exodus, and numbers (1985) (21)
In Defense of Orthodoxy: Notes on the Validity of an Index (1970) (20)
Efforts to Christianize Europe, 400‐2000 (2001) (20)
Religious effects : In praise of idealistic humbug (2000) (19)
Secularization and Cult Formation in the Jazz Age (1981) (18)
Truth? A Reply to Bruce (1995) (18)
The rise and fall of Christian science (1998) (17)
CONVENTIONAL CHRISTIAN BELIEFS AND EXPERIMENTATION WITH THE PARANORMAL (2008) (17)
Religious Competition and Roman Piety (2006) (17)
Cults of America: A Reconnaissance in Space and Time (1979) (17)
What Americans really believe : new findings from the Baylor surveys of religion (2008) (17)
Pluralism and the Churching of Latin America (2012) (16)
The Rise of Mormonism (2005) (15)
Doing field studies of religious movements: An agenda (2001) (15)
The Class Basis of Early Christianity: Inferences from a Sociological Model (1986) (14)
Melton's encyclopedia of American religions (2009) (14)
The Reliability of Historical United States Census Data on Religion (1992) (13)
Christianizing the Urban Empire: An Analysis Based on 22 Greco-Roman Cities (1991) (12)
Church and Cult in Canada (1982) (12)
Suicide, Homicide, and Religion: Durkheim Reassessed (1981) (12)
Cult Membership in the Roaring Twenties: Assessing Local Receptivity (1981) (12)
American-Born Sects: Initial Findings (1981) (12)
Epidemics, networks, and the rise of Christianity (1992) (12)
Formal Explanation of Religion: A Progress Report (1984) (12)
Social Contexts and Religious Experience (1965) (11)
Conversion to Latin American Protestantism and the Case for Religious Motivation (2010) (11)
Will ethics be the death of christianity? (1968) (11)
The Encyclopedia of American Religions@@@A Directory of Religious Bodies in the United States (1979) (10)
Is there an American protestantism? (1965) (10)
The Arithmetic of Social Movements: Theoretical Implications (1982) (9)
God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades (2009) (9)
Culture, Region, and Cross‐National Violent Crime (2018) (9)
The Triumph of Christianity (2011) (8)
Rediscovering Moral Communities (2013) (8)
The Complexities of Comparative Research (2008) (8)
Sociology of Religion: A Rodney Stark Reader (2015) (7)
Rokeach, Religion, and Reviewers: Keeping an Open Mind (1970) (6)
Do Christian Beliefs Cause Anti-Semitism?--A Comment (1973) (6)
The churching of America, 1776-1990 : winners and losers in our religious economy (1995) (5)
How sane people talk to the gods: A rational theory of revelations (1992) (5)
Contemporary Social Research Methods@@@Social Research Using Micro Case (1997) (4)
Regional, structural, and demographic predictors of violent victimization: A cross-national, multilevel analysis of 112 countries (2020) (4)
Religion and Society in Tension@@@The Sociology of Religion (1966) (3)
Dmitri Shalin Interview with Rodney Stark about Erving Goffman entitled "Goffman Was Trying to Get Away with the Descriptions of Those Fairly Sane People as He Laid Out His Notion of Mental Illness" (2008) (3)
DECLINE AND REVIVAL (2016) (3)
Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History (2016) (3)
On Theory-Driven Methods (1998) (2)
Dimensions of Religious Commitment 1966 (1999) (2)
Economics of Religion (2021) (2)
Reactions to Reed (1974) (2)
Support for the American Left, 1920-1924: The Opiate Thesis Reconsidered (1992) (2)
Through A Stained Glass Darkly: Reciprocal Protestant-Catholic Images in America (1964) (2)
Religion@@@The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy. (1993) (2)
The Role of Women in Christian Growth (2020) (1)
How Christianity (and Capitalism) Led to Science (2006) (1)
Does faith give you better health (2014) (1)
Toward a Theory of Religion: Religious Commitment (2019) (1)
Returning God to the Social Scientific Study of Religion : A ‘ Field ’ Analysis (2005) (1)
Doing sociology : an introduction through MicroCase (1992) (1)
Review of: Robert J. Kisala and Mark R. Mullins, eds., Religion and Social Crisis in Japan: Understanding Japanese Society through the Aum Affair (2003) (1)
Chapter 1. A New Approach to American Religious History (2020) (1)
8. A Theoretical Model of Religious Economies (2019) (1)
Crucible of the Millennium: The Burned-Over District of New York in the 1840s.Michael Barkun (1989) (1)
Early Christianity: Opiate of the Privileged? (2009) (1)
5. Modernization, Secularization, and Mormon Growth (2005) (1)
Reply to Newman and Halvorson (1988) (0)
Feedbackfrom our readers (1968) (0)
Reply to Jorgensen (1981) (0)
6. The Basis of Mormon Success (2005) (0)
4. God's Kingdom: Religious Persistence (2001) (0)
Some Unkind Words for Jack Sanders (1992) (0)
5. Religious Choices: Conversion and Reaffiliation (2019) (0)
Religion and religiosity in America : studies in honor of Joseph H. Fichter (1984) (0)
4. Rationality and Mormon Sacrifice (2005) (0)
[Sociology and New Testament Studies: A Critical Evaluation of Rodney Stark's Contribution]: Response (1990) (0)
3. Mormon Networks of Faith (2005) (0)
Chapter 5. Methodists Transformed, Baptists Triumphant (2020) (0)
ONE Conversion and Christian Growth (2006) (0)
Sociology / Rodney Stark (1985) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
4. The Micro Foundations of Religion (2019) (0)
Appendix. Profile Tables, 1776 and 1850 (2020) (0)
1. A New Look at Old Issues (2019) (0)
9. Religious Competition and Commitment: An International Assessment (2019) (0)
Chapter 2. The Colonial Era Revisited (2020) (0)
RAC volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2005) (0)
Chapter 4. The Coming of the Catholics, 1850–1926 (2020) (0)
Religion and Mental Illness (2013) (0)
Conversations (2005) (0)
Spirituality & Unchurched Religions in America, Sweden & Japan (2004) (0)
World Christian Encyclopedia, by David B. Barrett. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982, 1010 pp. $95.00 (1983) (0)
2. Joseph Smith Among the Revelators (2005) (0)
Rodney Stark delivers first of four Templeton/Vanderbilt lectures (2006) (0)
Chapter 3. The Upstart Sects Win America, 1776–1850 (2020) (0)
5. God's Grace: Pluralism and Civility (2001) (0)
APPENDIX: Propositions and Definitions (2019) (0)
Chapter 6. Why Unification Efforts Fail (2020) (0)
10. Church-to-Sect Movements (2019) (0)
Police Riots: An Anatomical Report (1972) (0)
CHH volume 73 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (2004) (0)
1.God's Nature: A Theory of Gods (2001) (0)
1. Extracting Social Scientific Models from Mormon History (2005) (0)
Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation (2018) (0)
Back Matter (1985) (0)
Chapter 7. Why “Mainline” Denominations Decline (2020) (0)
6. Religious Group Dynamics (2019) (0)
The Future of Religion (2023) (0)

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The Rise of Mormonism