Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
211 Oswald Tower
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-2527
Fax: 814-863-7216
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Roger Finke
Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies
402 Oswald Tower |
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1984, Sociology
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Sociology of Religion, Organizations, Comparative and Historical Sociology,Theory
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Director of the Association of Religion Data Archives, 2006 to present.
President of the Association of the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture, 2006 to present.
Fellow of the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, 2006 to pressent.
Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus/George Mason University Consortium for the Economic Study of Religion, 2003 to present.
Director of the American Religion Data Archive (www.TheARDA.com), 1996 to 2005.
A visiting professor at the Sino-U.S.-European Summer Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion, Renmin University, Beijing, China, 2005.
Chair of the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Section, 2003-2004.
Received the 2001 Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Section for Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion (with Rodney Stark).
Received the 1993 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for the The Churching of America 1776-1990 (with Rodney Stark).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
Finke, Roger and Rodney Stark. 1992. The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in our Religious Economy. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ( Second Edition,2005).
Stark, Rodney and Roger Finke. 2000. Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Articles
Grim, Brian J. and Roger Finke. 2007 "Religious Persecution in Cross-National Context: Clashing Civilizations or Regulated Religious Economies?" American Sociological Review 72: 633-658.
Finke, Roger, Matt Bahr and Chris Scheitle. 2006 "Toward Explaining Congregational Giving." Social Science Research 35: 620-641. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.04.001.
Finke, Roger and Rodney Stark. 2004. "The Dynamics of Religious Economies." in Michele Dillon (ed.), Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Finke, Roger. 2004. "Innovative Returns to Tradition: Using Core Beliefs as the Foundation for Innovative Accommodation." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 43: 19-34.
Finke, Roger and Kevin Dougherty. 2002. “The Effects of Professional Training: The Social and Religious Capital Acquired in Seminaries.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41: 103-120.
Wybraniec, John and Roger Finke. 2001. "Religious Regulation and the Courts: The Judiciary's Changing Role in Protecting Minority Religions from Majoritarian Rule." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 40: 427-444. Reprinted in James T. Richardson (ed.). 2003. Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Finke, Roger and Rodney Stark. 2001. “The New Holy Clubs: Testing Church-to-Sect Propositions.” Sociology of Religion 62: 175-189.
Finke, Roger and Patricia Wittberg. 2000. "Organizational Revival from Within: Explaining Revivalism and Reform in the Roman Catholic Church." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 39:154-170.
Finke, Roger. 1997. "The Consequences of Religious Competition: Supply-side Explanations for Religious Change." in Lawrence A. Young (ed.), Rational Choice Theory and Religion, New York: Routledge Press.
Finke, Roger. 1997. "The Illusion of Shifting Demand: Supply-Side Interpretations of American Religious History." in Thomas Tweed (ed.), Retelling U.S. Religious History. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Finke, Roger. 1997. "An Orderly Return to Tradition: Explaining Membership Growth in Catholic Religious Orders." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 36: 218-230.
Iannaccone, Laurence R., Roger Finke, and Rodney Stark. 1997. "Deregulating Religion: Supply-Side Stories of Trends and Change in the Religious Marketplace." Economic Inquiry 35: 350-364.
Finke, Roger, Avery Guest, and Rodney Stark. 1996. "Mobilizing Religious Markets: Religious Pluralism in the Empire State, 1865." American Sociological Review 61: 203-218.
Finke, Roger. 1990. "Religious Deregulation: Origins and Consequences." Journal of Church and State 32: 609-626.