Does religion have the power to regulate human behavior? If so, under what conditions can it prevent crime, delinquency, suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, or joining cults? Despite the fact that ordinary citizens assume religion deters deviant behavior, there has been little systematic scientific research on these crucial questions. This book is the first comprehensive analysis, drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary data, and written in a style that will appeal to readers from many intellectual backgrounds.
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Accessible to both general reader and social scientist. Undergraduates will appreciate the balance between theory, quantitative evidence, and historical description.
–Religious Studies Review
Readers who were impressed by an earlier issue of this journal that focused on corrections and religion will be interested in reading this book..
– ICCA Journal, April 1997
–Religious Studies Review
Readers who were impressed by an earlier issue of this journal that focused on corrections and religion will be interested in reading this book..
– ICCA Journal, April 1997
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Rodney Stark is Professor of Sociology and of Comparative Religion, University of Washington. William Sims Bainbridge is Director of the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation
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As the social sciences emerged from philosophy at the end of the eighteenth century, their founders were unanimous in their assertion that religion reinforced the moral order. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
church member rate, correlation between church membership, cult rates, church membership rate, secular communes, religious insanity, moral integration, religious utopias, religious effects, secular utopias, religious utopians, religious communes, religious deviance, cirrhosis deaths, membership rates, religious excitement, cult movements, population turnover, small cults Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Christian Science, New England, West Coast, Temperance Movement, Bureau of the Census, Eighteenth Amendment, New Age, Great Britain, Christian Scientists, Divine Science, Eastern Europe, Pliny Earle, Roman Catholic Church, Transcendental Meditation, United Kingdom, Durkheim's Suicide, Emile Durkheim, General Social Surveys, Isaac Ray, John Humphrey Noyes, Liberal Catholics, Los Angeles, West Germany, Whitney Pope New!
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As the social sciences emerged from philosophy at the end of the eighteenth century, their founders were unanimous in their assertion that religion reinforced the moral order. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
church member rate, correlation between church membership, cult rates, church membership rate, secular communes, religious insanity, moral integration, religious utopias, religious effects, secular utopias, religious utopians, religious communes, religious deviance, cirrhosis deaths, membership rates, religious excitement, cult movements, population turnover, small cults Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Christian Science, New England, West Coast, Temperance Movement, Bureau of the Census, Eighteenth Amendment, New Age, Great Britain, Christian Scientists, Divine Science, Eastern Europe, Pliny Earle, Roman Catholic Church, Transcendental Meditation, United Kingdom, Durkheim's Suicide, Emile Durkheim, General Social Surveys, Isaac Ray, John Humphrey Noyes, Liberal Catholics, Los Angeles, West Germany, Whitney Pope New!
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- Religion and Mental Health by John F. Schumaker in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Positive Philosophy (Language, man, and society: foundations of the behavioral sciences) by Auguste Comte on page 1, and Back Matter
- The Communistic Societies of the United States: Economic Social and Religious Utopias of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Nordhoff on page 158, and Back Matter
- The Authoritarian Personality (Studies in prejudice) by Theodor W. Adorno on page 152, and Back Matter
- University of Chicago by Dan Dry in Back Matter
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- The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule by Michael Shermer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Bearing False Witness?: An Introduction to the Christian Countercult by Douglas E. Cowan on page 216, and Back Matter
- Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet by Douglas E. Cowan in Back Matter
- Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective by Philip Clayton on page 77
- One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism by Rodney Stark in Back Matter
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