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Rodney Stark
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Rodney William Stark (July 8, 1934 – July 21, 2022) was an American sociologist of religion who was a longtime professor of sociology and of comparative religion at the University of Washington. At the time of his death he was the Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University, co-director of the university's Institute for Studies of Religion, and founding editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion.
Stark had written over 30 books, including The Rise of Christianity (1996), and more than 140 scholarly articles on subjects as diverse as prejudice, crime, suicide, and city life in ancient Rome. He twice won the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, for The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation (1985, with William Sims Bainbridge), and for The Churching of America 1776–1990 (1992, with Roger Finke).
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On this view religion and science, each verified in its own way from hour to hour and from life to life, would be co‐eternal. Primitive thought, with its belief in individualized personal forces, seems at any rate as far as ever from being driven by science from the field to‐day.
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
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The general conclusion of the book which the reader has before him is that religion is something eminently social. Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities; the rites are a manner of acting which take rise in the midst of the assembled groups and which are destined to excite,…
Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
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Coinciding with the on-line transition, the second striking change is the extent to which research and education networks are becoming the new medium of scholarly communication. The existing Internet and the pending National Education and Research Network (NREN) represent the new meeting ground where scholars are going for bibliographic information, scholarly dialogue and feedback, the most…
Library of Congress, Workshop on Electronic Texts
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- Comparative religion
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- Roman Empire
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- Nazism
- University of California, Berkeley
- Secularization
- Crusades
- Christianity
- William Sims Bainbridge
- Alvin Plantinga
- Evolution
- American Enterprise Institute
- Theory of religious economy
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Part of Gnosticism.