Since the author was very young he often wondered about God. Does he really exist? If so, where he before he revealed himself to Abraham? Were many generations of humans condemned to live and die i…
Why do people join cults? Why do they leave? And how do they manage to stay in them, if that's what they've decided to do? What are cults, anyway? Moonies? Hare Krishnas? The Mormons? The Moral Maj…
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 o…