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Rodney Stark

1934 - 2022

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Rodney Stark is the 74th most popular sociologist (up from 77th in 2024), the 10,630th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,465th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Rodney Stark ranks 74 out of 79. Before him are Anthony D. Smith, Peter Blau, Theda Skocpol, Margaret Archer, John Urry, and Robert Nisbet. After him are Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Boris Kagarlitsky, Grażyna Gęsicka, Ralph Miliband, John Bellamy Foster, and Ève Chiapello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Rodney Stark ranks 506. Before him are Elías Querejeta, Fredy Perlman, Jim Inhofe, Raymond Briggs, Hans Mild, and Tom Bridger. After him are Michael Dunn, Bud Luckey, Florence Henderson, Joe Williams, Gert Blomé, and King Curtis. Among people deceased in 2022, Rodney Stark ranks 569. Before him are Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Gerhard Roth, Dorothy E. Smith, Raymond Briggs, Bjarni Tryggvason, and Mike Hodges. After him are Naomi Judd, Javier Cárdenas, Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, Txetxu Rojo, Lenny Von Dohlen, and Keith Levene.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rodney Stark ranks 10,634 out of 20,380. Before him are Ed Powers (1954), Vincent Persichetti (1915), Proof (1973), Martin David Kruskal (1925), Ann Dvorak (1911), Leatrice Joy (1893), Alan Taylor (1959), and Grant Show (1962). After him are Logan Marshall-Green (1976), Naomi Judd (1946), Mike Conley Jr. (1987), and Jonathan Togo (1977).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In United States

Among sociologists born in United States, Rodney Stark ranks 26. Before him are Arlie Russell Hochschild (1940), George C. Homans (1910), Erik Olin Wright (1947), Jeffrey C. Alexander (1947), Theda Skocpol (1947), and Robert Nisbet (1913). After him are John Bellamy Foster (1953).

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