• 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...
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    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...
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  • The Rise of Christianity (category Books by Rodney Stark)
    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...
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    Bible, C. S. Lewis, Francis Collins, Alvin Plantinga, Stephen Jay Gould, Rodney Stark, Anne Rice, Annie Dillard, Flannery O'Connor, Jonathan Edwards, Søren...
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  • around novel beliefs and practices. Scholars William Sims Bainbridge and Rodney Stark have argued for a further distinction between three kinds of cults: cult...
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  • include William Sims Bainbridge, Roger Finke, Laurence Iannaccone, and Rodney Stark. The idea of religious economy frames religion as a product and as those...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Washington. During this period, he worked with departmental colleague Rodney Stark on the Stark-Bainbridge theory of religion. Upon returning to Harvard as a...
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  • ISBN 978-3643901033 – via Google Books. Sociology: Tenth Edition by Rodney Stark, 114 Joseph R. Gusfield (1986). Symbolic crusade: status politics and...
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    York: Robert Appleton Company. Minnich, p. 281 "For the glory of God", Rodney Stark, p. 330, Princeton University Press, 2003, ISBN 0691114366) David Brion...
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  • 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...
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    protest against the prevailing societal values. The American sociologists Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge argue that sects present themselves as authentic...
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  • 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]...
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  • religious predictions New religious movement Bainbridge, William Sims; Rodney Stark (1979). "Cult Formation: Three Compatible Models". Sociological Analysis...
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  • this interpretation has been challenged. In 1966, Charles Glock and Rodney Stark first published public opinion polling data which showed that most Americans...
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    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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    that masks its religious nature by mythologizing science". Sociologists Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge describe the SCI videotapes as largely based...
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    Cohen; November 22, 1921 – October 5, 2004), better known by the pseudonym Rodney Dangerfield, was an American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, and...
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    with modern life and a continuous learning from antiquity). Sociologist Rodney Stark, plays down the Renaissance in favor of the earlier innovations of the...
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  • ideological challenge ever mounted against slavery. According to sociologist Rodney Stark, "the fundamental problem facing Muslim theologians vis-à-vis the morality...
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    across various countries in the Muslim world. According to sociologist Rodney Stark, "the fundamental problem facing Muslim theologians vis-à-vis the morality...
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    Early Medieval Period (Vol. 2). Associated University Presse, 1980: 677. Rodney Stark, One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism. Princeton University...
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  • 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...
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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....
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    Gordon Melton William Dana Orcutt Robert Peel Lyman Pierson Powell Rodney Stark Irving C. Tomlinson Mark Twain James Henry Wiggin Sibyl Wilbur Bryan...
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  • Donald Martin Stark (born July 5, 1954) is an American actor known for his role as Bob Pinciotti on the Fox Network sitcom That '70s Show for all eight...
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