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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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]...

addition, Alastair Logan uses social theory to identify Gnosticism. He uses Rodney Stark and William Bainbridge's sociological theory on traditional religion...

against the values of the rest of society. The American sociologists Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge assert that "sects claim to be authentic...

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

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...

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

ideological challenge ever mounted against slavery. According to sociologist Rodney Stark, "the fundamental problem facing Muslim theologians vis-à-vis the morality...

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

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

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Greed and Power". Time. Archived from the original on May 25, 2014. Stark, Rodney; Bainbridge, William Sims (1987). A Theory of Religion. Peter Lang....

arrival of the crusaders. According to historian Jonathan Riley-Smith and Rodney Stark, muslim authorities in the holy land often enforced harsh rules "against...

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

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

Complicated Relationship" Archived 23 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Rodney Stark, "How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity"...