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73
Citations
41775
World Ranking
614
National Ranking
292

Overview

Rodney Stark was affiliated with Baylor University in the United States. Their research spanned multiple fields and subfields within the social sciences and humanities, focusing particularly on areas related to political science, history, and religious studies.

The primary fields of study for Rodney Stark included:

  • Social Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities

The subfields where they contributed were:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • History
  • Religious studies
  • Marketing
  • Sociology and Political Science

The main topics addressed in their work involved:

  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Mormonism, Religion, and History
  • Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies
  • American History and Culture
  • Religion and Society Interactions

Rodney Stark coauthored with several researchers, most frequently with Roger Finke, with whom they collaborated on multiple publications. Another known coauthor was Reginald W. Bibby.

Their published books included titles from prestigious university presses. One notable publication was The Rise of Christianity (2020) released by Princeton University Press, which had accumulated 208 citations.

Recent papers involved several works published in 2020 via Rutgers University Press eBooks, including:

  • The Churching of America, 1776-2005
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Index

All of these recent papers were authored or coauthored with Roger Finke and contributed to the same publication venue.

The frequent publication venue for Rodney Stark's research was Rutgers University Press eBooks, where four of their papers appeared.

Best Publications

  • Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion

    Rodney Stark;Roger Finke

  • The Churching of America, 1776-2005

    Roger Finke;Rodney Stark

  • The Churching of America, 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy

    Roger Finke;Rodney Stark

  • The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival and Cult Formation

    Rodney Stark;William Sims Bainbridge

  • A Theory of Religion

    Rodney Stark;William Sims Bainbridge;Jeffrey K. Hadden

  • The Rise of Christianity

    Rodney Stark

  • American Piety: The Nature of Religious Commitment

    Rodney Stark;Charles Y. Glock

  • A supply-side reinterpretation of the secularization' of Europe

    Rodney Stark;Laurence R. Iannaccone

  • Becoming a world-saver: a theory of conversion to a deviant perspective

    John Lofland;Rodney Stark

  • Religion and society in tension

    Charles Y. Glock;Rodney Stark

  • The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History

    Rodney Stark

  • Christian beliefs and anti-Semitism

    Charles Y. Glock;Rodney Stark

  • Hellfire and Delinquency

    Travis Hirschi;Rodney Stark

  • RELIGIOUS ECONOMIES AND SACRED CANOPIES: RELIGIOUS MOBILIZATION IN AMERICAN CITIES, 1906*

    Roger Finke;Rodney Stark

  • DEVIANT PLACES: A THEORY OF THE ECOLOGY OF CRIME

    Rodney Stark

  • The Churching of America 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy.

    Wade Clark Roof;Roger Finke;Rodney Stark

  • Gender and Religiousness: Can Socialization Explanations Be Saved?1

    Alan S. Miller;Rodney Stark

  • Secularization, R.I.P.

    Rodney Stark

  • Networks of Faith: Interpersonal Bonds and Recruitment to Cults and Sects'

    Rodney Stark;William Sims Bainbridge

  • Physiology and Faith: Addressing the “Universal” Gender Difference in Religious Commitment

    Rodney Stark

  • Religion and Society in Tension

    Martin B. Bradley;Charles Y. Glock;Rodney Stark

  • American Piety: The Nature of Religious Commitment.

    Dennison Nash;Rodney Stark;Charles Y. Glock

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger Finke
Roger Finke Pennsylvania State University
Laurence R. Iannaccone
Laurence R. Iannaccone Chapman University
Herbert J. Gans
Herbert J. Gans Columbia University
Robert Wuthnow
Robert Wuthnow Princeton University
John Wilson
John Wilson University of Southern California
Travis Hirschi
Travis Hirschi University of Arizona

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