Acts of Faith
Explaining the Human Side of Religion
By Rodney Stark; Roger Finke
(University of California Press, Paperback, 9780520222021, 343pp.)
Publication Date: August 2000
Categories: Sociology of Religion, Faith, Psychology of Religion
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"This book is a major next step in developing the sociology of religion's 'new paradigm'--an important summary of the evolving 'religious economies' theory. Stark and Finke's spirited deconstruction of antireligious secularization theories and other theories of 'irrational' religion is simply delightful. And its own constructive theory offers a valuable resource for those friendly to the rational choice approach to religion, as well as a continuing challenge to its critics."--Christian Smith, University of North Carolina











