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41
Citations
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4856
National Ranking
2304

Overview

Roger Finke is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, History, Health, and Demography.

Their research covers a variety of topics centered on the interactions between religion and society. These topics include Religion and Society Interactions, American Constitutional Law and Politics, Religion, Society, and Development, Mormonism, Religion, and History, Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, Culture, Economy, and Development Studies, and Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies.

Roger Finke has contributed publications in several venues, with frequent publications in Rutgers University Press eBooks, Religions, Social Compass, and The American Sociologist.

Recent publications from Roger Finke include:

  • "Reconciling state promises and practices: Constitutional promises and discrimination against religious minorities", 2021, Social Compass
  • "The Churching of America, 1776-2005", 2020, Rutgers University Press eBooks

Other recent papers in related research, coauthored by others, include works by Jonathan Fox and Landon Schnabel in venues such as Religions and The American Sociologist.

Frequent co-authors of Roger Finke are:

  • Rodney Stark
  • Dane R. Mataic
  • Jonathan Fox
  • Olga Breskaya
  • Landon Schnabel

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

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

    Roger Finke;Rodney Stark

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

    Wade Clark Roof;Roger Finke;Rodney Stark

  • The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century

    Brian J. Grim;Roger Finke

  • Deregulating religion: The economics of church and state

    Laurence R. Iannaccone;Roger Finke;Rodney Stark

  • International Religion Indexes: Government Regulation, Government Favoritism, and Social Regulation of Religion.

    Brian J Grim;Roger Finke

  • Supply-Side Explanations for Religious Change

    Roger Finke;Laurence R. Iannaccone

  • Religious Deregulation: Origins and Consequences

    Roger Finke

  • Religious Persecution in Cross-National Context: Clashing Civilizations or Regulated Religious Economies?

    Brian J. Grim;Brian J. Grim;Roger Finke

  • Religion, Science, and Rationality

    Rodney Stark;Laurence R. Iannaccone;Roger Finke

  • Religious Choice and Competition

    Roger Finke;Rodney Stark

  • CROSS‐NATIONAL MORAL BELIEFS: The Influence of National Religious Context

    Roger Finke;Amy Adamczyk

  • Mobilizing local religious markets : Religious pluralism in the Empire State, 1855 to 1865

    Roger Finke;Avery M. Guest;Rodney Stark

  • RATIONALITY AND THE “RELIGIOUS MIND”

    Laurence Iannaccone;Rodney Stark;Roger Finke

  • How the Upstart Sects Won America: 1776-1850

    Roger Finke;Rodney Stark

  • Accounting for the uncounted : Computing correctives for the 2000 RCMS data

    Roger Finke;Christopher P. Scheitle

  • The Effects of Professional Training: The Social and Religious Capital Acquired in Seminaries

    Roger Finke;Kevin D. Dougherty

  • The churching of America, 1776-1990 : winners and losers in our religious economy

    Roger Finke;Rodney Stark

  • Secularism and State Policies Toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey

    Roger Finke

Frequent Co-Authors

Rodney Stark
Rodney Stark Baylor University
Laurence R. Iannaccone
Laurence R. Iannaccone Chapman University
John Wilson
John Wilson University of Southern California

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