Sociology of Religion: A Rodney Stark Reader

Rodney Stark

Sociology of Religion: A Rodney Stark Reader
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Country
United States
Published
15 August 2015
Pages
648
ISBN
9781602589728

Sociology of Religion: A Rodney Stark Reader

Rodney Stark

For the last five decades, Rodney Stark has been one of sociology’s most prolific and important scholars of religion. The theoretical depth, the scientific rigor, and the clarity of style manifested in Stark’s oeuvreaover 30 books and 140 articlesahave made his work the standard texts. Stark’s research career encompasses a wide spectrum of the necessary topics in sociology of religion. He has applied groundbreaking theory and method to issues of secularization, religion and society, religious movements, social theory, and the history of religion. Sociology of Religion: A Rodney Stark Reader mirrors Stark’s influential career by highlighting these very topics. In this anthology, Stark’s significant articles are not only, for the first time, collected together but also clearly organized according to the thematic trajectory of Stark’s carefully developed theory of religion. This volume is the essential reader for any scholar, teacher, or student encountering the work of one of this century’s most compelling sociologists.

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