Rodney William Stark (July 8, 1934 – July 21, 2022) was an American sociologist of religion who was a longtime professor of sociology and of comparative...

Few Centuries, depending on the edition), is a book by the sociologist Rodney Stark, which examines the rise of Christianity, from a small movement in Galilee...

was first applied to the West Coast of the United States in 1985 by Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge, who found that California, Oregon, and Washington...

around novel beliefs and practices. Scholars William Sims Bainbridge and Rodney Stark have argued for a further distinction between three kinds of cults: cult...

satisfy workers' demands for a larger share. According to the sociologist Rodney Stark, few Americans believe that coming from a wealthy family or having political...

Washington. During this period, he worked with departmental colleague Rodney Stark on the Stark-Bainbridge theory of religion. Upon returning to Harvard as a...

Bible, C. S. Lewis, Francis Collins, Alvin Plantinga, Stephen Jay Gould, Rodney Stark, Anne Rice, Annie Dillard, Flannery O'Connor, Jonathan Edwards, Søren...

include William Sims Bainbridge, Roger Finke, Laurence Iannaccone, and Rodney Stark. The idea of religious economy frames religion as a product and as those...

915 Christian Scientists in the United States (2,098 per million), and Rodney Stark believes this to be close to the height. However the number of Christian...

of the human race should live in perpetual indebtedness to another." Rodney Stark makes the argument in For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations...

York: Robert Appleton Company. Minnich, p. 281 "For the glory of God", Rodney Stark, p. 330, Princeton University Press, 2003, ISBN 0691114366) David Brion...

ISBN 978-3643901033 – via Google Books. Sociology: Tenth Edition by Rodney Stark, 114 Joseph R. Gusfield (1986). Symbolic crusade: status politics and...

prejudice. His book "Christian Beliefs and Anti-Semitism" co-authored with Rodney Stark is based on surveys finding quantitative data in support of a theory...

Early Medieval Period (Vol. 2). Associated University Presse, 1980: 677. Rodney Stark, One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism. Princeton University...

further argues that the Indian nations had every right to self-defense. Rodney Stark describes the bull as "magnificent" and believes the reason that, in...

protest against the prevailing societal values. The American sociologists Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge argue that sects present themselves as authentic...

this interpretation has been challenged. In 1966, Charles Glock and Rodney Stark first published public opinion polling data which showed that most Americans...

religious predictions New religious movement Bainbridge, William Sims; Rodney Stark (1979). "Cult Formation: Three Compatible Models". Sociological Analysis...

that masks its religious nature by mythologizing science". Sociologists Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge describe the SCI videotapes as largely based...

across various countries in the Muslim world. According to sociologist Rodney Stark, "the fundamental problem facing Muslim theologians vis-à-vis the morality...

with modern life and a continuous learning from antiquity). Sociologist Rodney Stark, plays down the Renaissance in favor of the earlier innovations of the...

real wages following the epidemics of bubonic plague. Social scientist Rodney Stark commented that "during their critical period of economic development...

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Conor Kostick, The Siege of Jerusalem, London, 2009. [ISBN missing] Rodney Stark, God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades, New York, 2009.[ISBN missing]...

rejected the description of the denomination as "totalitarian". Sociologist Rodney Stark states that Jehovah's Witness leaders are "not always very democratic"...

Cohen; November 22, 1921 – October 5, 2004), better known by the pseudonym Rodney Dangerfield, was an American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, and...

Hemoglobin: Genetics, Pathophysiology, and Clinical Management, pp. 725–726 Rodney Stark, "For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science,...

Gordon Melton William Dana Orcutt Robert Peel Lyman Pierson Powell Rodney Stark Irving C. Tomlinson Mark Twain James Henry Wiggin Sibyl Wilbur Bryan...

Muslims—it too, refuses to succumb to the death it deserves." The sociologist Rodney Stark of Baylor University, argued in contrast that "Christian theology was...

Christianity through the eyes of scholars Edward Gibbon, Adolf von Harnack and Rodney Stark. Author 1983: The Early Greek Concept of the Soul, Princeton University...