Rodney Stark | |
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| Born | Rodney William Stark July 8, 1934 Jamestown, North Dakota, US |
| Died | July 21, 2022 (aged 88) |
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| Thesis | Police riots: collective violence and law enforcement (1971) |
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| Notable ideas | Stark–Bainbridge theory of religion |
| Influenced | Dana Evan Kaplan |
| Website | www |
Rodney William Stark (July 8, 1934 – July 21, 2022)[1] 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.[2]
Stark had written over 30 books, including The Rise of Christianity (1996), and more than 140 scholarly articles on subjects as diverse as prejudice, crime, suicide, and city life in ancient Rome.[3] He twice won the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, for The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation (1985, with William Sims Bainbridge), and for The Churching of America 1776–1990 (1992, with Roger Finke).[4]
- ^ "Celebrating Rodney Stark, Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences | Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion | Baylor University".
- ^ Curriculum vitae, Baylor University.
- ^ "Rodney Stark". Baylor University. 15 March 2013. Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
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