Rodney Stark is an American sociologist of religion. Stark is as of 2006 teaching at Baylor University. He is a major and respected advocate of the application of Rational choice theory in the sociology of religion.

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Stark has published 27 books and 138 article according to his Curriculum Vitae. The list below is incomplete; see his Curriculum Vitae for the full list.

Books

• The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult formation (1985), with Williams Sims Bainbridge
• The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History (1996)
• Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion (2000), with Roger Finke
• One True God: Historical Consequence of Monotheism (2001)
• For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery (2003)
• Exploring the Religious Life (2004)
• The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success (2005)
• The Rise of Mormonism (2005)

Articles

• Rodney Stark and John Lofland Becoming a World- Saver: A Theory of Conversion to a Deviant Perspective American Sociological Review of 1965. (an early and influential conversion theory based on the observations of the then unknown Unification Church)
• Rodney Stark and Williams Sims Bainbridge (1979) Of Churches, Sects, and Cults: Preliminary Concepts for a Theory of Religious Movements Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 18, no 2: 117-33

External links

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• Rodney Stark his homepage
• Stark interrogated in court as an expert