Rodney Stark
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3630577 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rodney Stark |
| PRENOMES | Rodney |
| SOBRENOME | Stark |
| ASSINATURA | STARK R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Washington |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 158 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2697 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 158 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1963 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 22 |
The Future of Religion
Future of Religion
Regional, structural, and demographic predictors of violent victimization
Routine activities and lifestyles theories emphasize structural and demographic predictors that affect the opportunity to commit crime and the likelihood of being victimized. Past research tends to focus on either the individual- or country-level with few studies incorporating both. Additionally, past research primarily draws on the International Crime Victimization Survey, which results in small country samples that are biased toward developed n…
Acts of Faith
Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to discredit it as irrational, ignorant, or foolish—and Rodney Stark and Roger Finke have played a major role in this new approach. Acknowledging that science cannot assess the supernatural side of religion (and therefore should not claim to do so), Stark and Finke analyze the observable, human side of faith. In clear and engaging prose, the authors comb…
On Becoming a World-Saver
This chapter outlines a model of the conversion process through which a group of people came to see the world in terms set by the doctrines of one such obscure and devalued perspective—a small millenarian religious cult. The model suggests some rudiments of a general account of conversion to deviant perspectives. The chapter investigates two genres of conditions or factors to account for the process by which persons came to be world-savers for th…
Culture, Region, and Cross‐National Violent Crime
Past cross‐national crime research has focused on structural factors with considerably less attention paid to cultural predictors. We extend the culture of honor thesis by identifying the importance of cultural gender inequality and test a direct measure of it on cross‐national violent crime rates. While prior research typically uses regional variables as proxies for culture, by using a direct cultural measure we are also able to identify whether…
Why God
Religion, Deviance, and Social Control
Does religion have the power to regulate human behavior? If so, under what conditions can it prevent crime, delinquency, suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, or joining cults? Despite the fact that ordinary citizens assume religion deters deviant behavior, there has been little systematic scientific research on these crucial questions. This book is the first comprehensive analysis, drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary data, and writ…
Pluralism and the Churching of Latin America
Reliable data on Protestant and Catholic membership in 18 Latin American nations show that Protestants have recruited a larger percentage of the population in many nations than previously estimated. Analysis of these data shows that, as predicted by the theory of religious economies, the Catholic Church has been invigorated by the Protestant challenge: Catholic mass attendance has risen to unprecedented levels, and is highest in nations where Pro…
Deregulation and The Religious Market in Taiwan
The religious economy model predicts that when encountered with competition, loosely organized religions will fail or will be transformed into congregational religions. Over time, competition will drive congregational religions to establish an extended relationship with their consumers by generating exclusivist claims and exclusivist socialization. And thus exclusive religion tends to occupy the biggest market share. This model, however, has rare…
Exploring the Religious Life
Though religion is for most people one of the most important aspects of their lives, social scientists and other observers of human society too often misunderstand and misrepresent the nature and role of religion in history and in daily life. From the supposed decline of religious attitudes in Western Europe and the venal motivations attributed to the Christian Crusaders to the very definition of religion, personal biases and an inadequate grasp …
Exploring Spirituality and Unchurched Religions in America, Sweden, and Japan
A typology of churched and unchurched religions is developed and then used to analyse the status of unchurched spirituality in the United States, Sweden, and Japan. In the United States, churched religions remain strong, while most of those who say they have no religious preference are quite religious, merely unchurched. In Sweden, the lack of participation in the state church seems to be more than offset by a rapid rise in unchurched religion, e…
Religions in Context
SSSR Presidential Address, 2004
The Dynamics of Religious Economies
An immense intellectual shift is taking place in the social scientific study of religion. During the past few years many of its most venerated theoretical positions – faithfully passed down from the famous founders of the field – have been overturned. The changes have become so dramatic and far-reaching that R. Stephen Warner identified them “as a paradigm shift in progress” (1993:1044), an assessment that since then “has been spectacularly fulfi…
Upper Class Asceticism
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One True God
Acts of Faith
Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to discredit it as irrational, ignorant, or foolish--and Rodney Stark and Roger Finke have played a major role in this new approach. Acknowledging that science cannot assess the supernatural side of religion (and therefore should not claim to do so), Stark and Finke analyze the observable, human side of faith. In clear and engaging prose, the authors com…
One True God
Pentecostalism
Acts of Faith
One True God
Journal Article One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism, by Rodney Stark. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001, 319 pp. $24.95 (cloth) Get access Nancy T. Ammerman Nancy T. Ammerman Hartford Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 63, Issue 4, Winter 2002, Pages 548–550, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712312 Published: 01 December 2002
Physiology and Faith
That men are less religious than women is a generalization that holds around the world and across the centuries. However, there has been virtually no study of this phenomenon because it has seemed so obvious that it is the result of differential sex role socialization. Unfortunately, actual attempts to isolate socialization effects on gender differences in religiousness have failed, as have far more frequent and careful efforts to explain gender …
Gender and Religiousness
It has long been assumed in sociology that gender differences in religiousness are a product of differential socialization. Yet, there is little empirical support for this assumption. To address this gap in the literature, this study draws on an extensive investigation of the relationship between differential socialization and differential religiousness. Using the American General Social Surveys and the World Values Survey, this article analyzes …
The rise of Christianity
Acts of Faith
Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to discredit it as irrational, ignorant, or foolish—and Rodney Stark and Roger Finke have played a major role in this new approach. Acknowledging that science cannot assess the supernatural side of religion (and therefore should not claim to do so), Stark and Finke analyze the observable, human side of faith. In clear and engaging prose, the authors comb…
Becoming a World-Saver
Religious Economies and Sacred Canopies
For generations, sociologists have believed that cities are less hospitable to religion than are rural areas and that where many faiths compete for followers, the credibility of each is reduced. In this essay we attempt to explain why these received truths are, in fact, nostalgic myths. We try to demonstrate that religious participation is and ought to be higher in cities and that competition among religious bodies increases levels of religious m…
A Supply-Side Reinterpretation of the "Secularization" of Europe
We propose a theory of religious mobilization that accounts for variations in religious participation on the basis of variations in the degree of regulation of religious economies and consequent variations in their levels of religious competition. To account for the apparent 'secularization of many European nations, we stress supply-side weaknesses - inefficient religious organizations within highly regulated religious economies - rather than a l…
Hellfire and Delinquency
Religious training is assumed to prevent delinquency by promoting the development of moral values, acceptance of conventional authority, and belief in the existence of supernatural sanctions. The relations between church attendance and these presumed consequences are examined. Children who attend church are no more likely than non-attenders to accept ethical principles; they are only slightly more likely than non-attenders to respect conventional…
Gender and Religiousness
It has long been assumed in sociology that gender differences in religiousness are a product of differential socialization. Yet, there is little empirical support for this assumption. To address this gap in the literature, this study draws on an extensive investigation of the relationship between differential socialization and differential religiousness. Using the American General Social Surveys and the World Values Survey, this article analyzes …
Religion as Context
More than 10 years ago the author proposed a contextual-interactional explanation of the fact that research done on the West Coast fails to find a relationship between religious commitment and delinquency, while studies done elsewhere invariably find a strong negatit)e correlation. Unfortunately, because of various deficiencies, subsequent studies that claimed to test the contextual explanation have not done so-leaving the literature more confuse…
Physiology and Faith
That men are less religious than women is a generalization that holds around the world and across the centuries. However, there has been virtually no study of this phenomenon because it has seemed so obvious that it is the result of differential sex role socialization. Unfortunately, actual attempts to isolate socialization effects on gender differences in religiousness have failed, as have far more frequent and careful efforts to explain gender …
Deviant Places
It is well known that high rates of crime and deviance can persist in specific neighborhoods despite repeated, complete turnovers in the composition of their populations. That this occurs suggests that more than "kinds of people" explanations are needed to account for the ecological concentration of deviance-that we also need to develop "kinds of places" explanations. This essay attempts to codify more than a century of ecological research on cri…
Networks of Faith
A long tradition in social science explains recruitment to religious cults and sects on the basis of a congruence between the ideology of a group and the deprivations of those who join. A more recent approach to recruitment argues that interpersonal bonds between members and potential recruits are the essential element. In this paper we first show that these are complementary, not competing, approaches. Then, because the available evidential base…
Christian beliefs and anti-Semitism
Mobilizing Local Religious Markets
Recent theoretical developments propose that when the state deregulates religion pluralism and competition will emerge and overall levels of religious participation will be high. In this essay we return to nineteenth century America when a religious free market was first emerging to examine how pluralism generated higher levels of church attendance. We use data from the state census of 1865 to explore the religious situation in 942 towns and citi…
Gods, Rituals, and the Moral Order
The functionalist 'law' that religion sustains the moral order must be amended. As is demonstrated in this study, religion has this effect only as it is based on belief in powerful, active, conscious, morally-concerned gods. Contrary to Durkheim's claims, participation in religious rituals per se has little independent impact on morality and none when done on behalf of gods conceived as unconscious essences, or as conscious gods of small scope an…
Religious Choice and Competition
Of Churches, Sects, and Cults
This paper constructs a set of concepts needed for a theory of religious movements. First, the boundaries for such a theory are set by defining religion and then by translating this definition into terms more useful for theorizing. Next, we demonstrate why a faulty understanding of ideal types has led to conceptualizations of church and sect that prevent theorizing. We adopt Benton Johnson's solution for defining the underlying church-sect axis. …
Why religious movements succeed or fail
In this essay I refine and greatly expand the scope of my 1987 theory of why religious groups succeed or fail. The initial version was limited to new religions (cult movements). This version applies to all movements, including sects. The theory now consists of 10 propositions which attempt to specify the necessary and sufficient conditions for success or failure
Market Forces and Catholic Commitment
The traditional paradigm in the sociology of religion sees strength in religious monopolies, attributing to them the ability to sustain an unchallenged, taken-for-granted sacred canopy. The newer paradigm regards religious monopolies as weak, locating religious vitality in pluralism and competition. A crucial test of these competing paradigms arises in the hypothesis that rank-and-file Catholic commitment varies inversely to the proportion nomina…
On the Incompatibility of Religion and Science
IN recent years a lull has settled over the battle which once raged between science and religion.l The militant and crusading spirit of an earlier era seems to be dissipated, and the public forums no longer ring with cries of superstition or heresy. In these calmer days, a spate of recent apologetics suggests that a major preoccupation of many American theologians is to show either that there never was any basis for conflict between science and r…
Why the Jehovah's witnesses grow so rapidly
This paper applies a general theory of why religious movements succeed or fail to explain why the Jehovah's Witnesses are the most rapidly growing religious movement in the western world. In addition to qualitative assessments of Witness doctrines, organisational structures, internal networks, and socialisation, we utilise quantitative data from a variety of sources to assess such things as the impact of failed prophesies, how “strictness”; elimi…
Towards a Theory of Religion
Exploring Spirituality and Unchurched Religions in America, Sweden, and Japan
A typology of churched and unchurched religions is developed and then used to analyse the status of unchurched spirituality in the United States, Sweden, and Japan. In the United States, churched religions remain strong, while most of those who say they have no religious preference are quite religious, merely unchurched. In Sweden, the lack of participation in the state church seems to be more than offset by a rapid rise in unchurched religion, e…
Micro Foundations of Religion
In a major revision of my earlier theoretical work on religion, I attempt to identify and connect the basic micro elements and processes underlying religious expression. I show that all primary aspects of religion-belief, emotion, ritual, prayer, sacrifice, mysticism, and miracle-can be understood on the basis of exchange relations between humans and supernatural beings. Although I utilize a cognitive definition of religion, this new version of t…
Evaluating the Evidence
Religion and Conformity
Journal Article Religion and Conformity: Reaffirming a Sociology of Religion Get access Rodney Stark Rodney Stark University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 45, Issue 4, Winter 1984, Pages 273–282, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711294 Published: 01 December 1984
How the Upstart Sects Won America
Using our reconstructed denominational statistics for 1776 and 1850, we demonstrate that the so-called Protestant mainline began to collapse rapidly, not in the past several decades as is widely supposed, but late in the 18th Century. Hence, by 1850 the Baptists and Methodists vigorous, evangelical sects in that era dominated the religious landscape. Treating the Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists as firms c…
On the Incompatibility of Religion and Science
IN recent years a lull has settled over the battle which once raged between science and religion.l The militant and crusading spirit of an earlier era seems to be dissipated, and the public forums no longer ring with cries of superstition or heresy. In these calmer days, a spate of recent apologetics suggests that a major preoccupation of many American theologians is to show either that there never was any basis for conflict between science and r…
Class, Radicalism, and Religious Involvement in Great Britain
permissive white college students are low on church attendance, tend not to believe in romantic love and report falling in love relatively often. The equally permissive Negro students lack these characteristics; their permissiveness seems to be a consequence of a long-standing supporting tradition. This interpretation of the distinction between more and less permissive subcultures is further supported by the contrast between the two extreme group…
Amish Society
Through A Stained Glass Darkly
The paper reports some empirical findings concerning the images which Protestants and Catholics currently hold of themselves and one another. The data were collected from a random sample of the church-member population of four West Coast counties. Protestants are somewhat anxious about Catholic power and Catholics are relatively confident about being powerful. Both groups agree that they have inflicted inequities upon one another. While Protestan…
Is there an American protestantism
Becoming a World-Saver
Social Contexts and Religious Experience
"The "New Denominationalism
A Taxonomy of Religious Experience
Religion and Society in Tension
Religion and Society in Tension
Journal Article Religion and Society in Tension. By Charles Y. Glock and Rodney Stark. Chicago: Rand McNally and Company, 1965. Pp. xii, 306. No price indicated Get access Richard Robbins Richard Robbins Hampton Institute Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 27, Issue 3, Fall 1966, Pages 173–175, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710391 Published: 01 October 1966
Religion and Society in Tension
Religion and Society in Tension
Christian Beliefs and Anti-Semitism
Christian Beliefs and Anti-Semitism
Journal Article Christian Beliefs and Anti-Semitism . By Charles Y. Glock and Rodney Stark. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Pp. xii, 266. $8.50 Get access James J. Vanecko James J. Vanecko University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and The National Opinion Research Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 28, Issue 2, 1967, Pages 97–101, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710358 Published: 01…
Christian Beliefs and Anti-Semitism
Christian Beliefs and Antisemitism
Will ethics be the death of christianity
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American Piety
American Piety: The Nature Of Religious Commitment. By Rodney Stark and Charles Y. Glock. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968. Pp. x, 230. $6.75 James R. Kelly James R. Kelly Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 29, Issue 3, Fall 1968, Pages 164–166, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710152 Published: 01 October 1968
Age and Faith
It has long been widely believed that personal religious commitment increases with age, partly because of anxiety over death. Past evidence has lent support to this notion. However, it is also believed that secularization has been going on in our society, hence these correlations may reflect social change rather than increases in piety associated with aging. This paper attempts to resolve these different interpretations and reports distinct evide…
American Piety
Patterns of Religious Commitment
American Piety
American Piety
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