Recent Publications: Rodney Stark

The Complexities of Comparative Research, Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, Volume 2008, Article 4.

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Deregulation and the Religious Market in Taiwan: A Research Note
By Yunfeng Lu, Byron Johnson and Rodney Stark, The Sociological Quarterly, Volume 49 pp 138-153, 2008.

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Religious Competition and Roman Piety
By Rodney Stark , Interdisclinary Journal of Research on Religion Volume 2, 2006, Article 6.

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Religious Competition and Revival in Italy: Exploring European Exceptionalism
By Rodney Stark and Massimo Introvigne, Interdisclinary Journal of Research on Religion Volume 1, 2005, Article 5.

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SSSR Presidential Address, 2004: Putting an End to Ancestor Worship
By Rodney Stark, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion volume 43, Number 4, pp. 465-475, 2004.

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Religions in Context: The Response of Non-Morman Faiths in Utah
By Rodney Stark and Roger Finke Review of Religious Research, Volume 45, pp. 294-299, 2004.

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Upper Class Asceticism: Social Origins of Ascetic Movements and Medieval Saints
By Rodney Stark, Review of Religious Research, 2003 Volume 45:1, pp 5-19.

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False Conflict: Christianity is Not Only Compatible with Science - It Created It
By Rodney Stark, The American Enterprise Volume 14, pp. 27-33, Oct/Nov 2003.

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Gender and Religiousness: Can Socialization Explanations Be Saved?
By Alan S. Miller and Rodney Stark, American Journal of Sociology, Volume 107, Number 6, pp. 1399-1423, May 2002.

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Physiology and Faith: Addressing the Universal Gender Difference in Religious Commitment
By Rodney Stark, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 41, Number 3, pp. 495-507, 2002.

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The New Holy Clubs: Testing Church-to-Sect Propositions
By Roger Finke and Rodney Stark, Sociology of Religion volume 62, Number 2, pp. 175-189, 2001.

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Efforts to Christianize Europe, 400-2000
By Rodney Stark, Journal of Contemporary Religion Volume 16, Number 1, pp. 105-123, 2001.

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Doing Field Studies of Religious Movements: An Agenda
By Susan Pitchford, Christopher Bader and Rodney Stark, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 40, Number 3, pp. 379-.92, 2001.

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Gods, Rituals, and the Moral Order
By Rodney Stark, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Volume 40, Number 4, pp. 619-636, 2001.

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Catholic Religious Vocations: Decline and Revival
By Rodney Stark, Review of Religious Research Volume 42, Number 2, pp. 125-145, 2000.

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Reconceptualizing Religion, Magic, and Science
By Rodney Stark, Review of Religious Research, 2001, Volume 43:2, pp 101-120.

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Religious Effects: In Praise of "Idealistic Humbug"
By Rodney Stark, Review of Religious Research, 2000, Volume 41:3, pp 289-310.

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