Drawn largely from Stark and Bainbridge's theory of religion, a modified rational choice model of religious behavior is presented and tested using data from the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in ...

The legal and administrative apparatus responsible for the social control of organizations relies extensively on the deterrent effects of punishment. This strategy presumes a rational choice model of ...

Some ideas are so potent as to be world-changing. For Rodney Stark, Christianity encompasses just such a set of ideas. In his view, Christian beliefs and images of God shaped the course of Western ...