Rodney Stark: 16 books

Religion, Deviance, and Social Control

by Rodney Stark, William Sims Bainbridge
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

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...

Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies

Essays on Religious Markets and Religious Pluralism

by William Sims Bainbridge, Steve Bruce, Roger Finke
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003

Can individual decisions concerning whether or where to attend church, to contribute time or money to religious organizations, or to forgo certain activities be explained as a special case of economic theory? In Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies, Ted G. Jelen brings together the leading scholars in...

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