Roger Finke's Information
POSITION TITLE: Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies and Director of the Association of Religion Data Archives (www.theARDA.com)
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Historical and comparative study of religion; theory.
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| PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE:
1984-1986 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Concordia College
1986-1989 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Loyola University of Chicago
1989-1992 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Purdue University
1992-2000 Associate Professor of Sociology, Purdue University
2000-present Professor of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
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| HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FELLOWSHIPS:
1993 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for The Churching of America, 1776-1990. Rutgers University Press
1995 Visiting Professor, Pew Younger Scholars Program, Summer,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
1996 Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Center Fellow, Purdue University
2000 Visiting Professor, Pew Younger Scholars Program, Summer,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
2001 Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Section for Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion. University of California Press
2003-present Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus/George Mason University Consortium for the Economic Study of Religion
2004-2005 Chair of the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Section
2005 The Pennsylvania State University's Liberal Arts Distinction in the Social
Sciences Award
2005 Visiting Professor, Sino-U.S.-European Summer Institute for the
Scientific Study of Religion, Renmin University, Beijing, China
2006-2009 Chair of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture
2009 Penn State President's Award for Excellence in Academic Integration
2009 Distinguished Article Award from the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Section for "Religious Persecution in Cross-National Context: Clashing Civilizations or Regulated Religious Economies?" American Sociological Review 72: 633-658
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Finke, R.
(1990).
"Religious Deregulation: Origins and Consequences."
Journal of Church and State 32:609-626.
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Finke, R.
(1992).
"An Unsecular America." In
Bruce, S.
(Ed.)
, Religion and Modernization: Sociologists and Historians Debate the Secularization Thesis.
Oxford:
Clarendon Press.
(pp. 145-169)
Finke, R.
and
R. Stark
(1992).
The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in our Religious Economy.
New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press.
Finke, R.
and
R. Stark
(1992).
"Four Religious Eruptions." In
Finke, R.
(Ed.)
, The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in our Religious Economy.
New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press.
Finke, R.
and
R. Stark
(1992).
"A New Approach to American Religious History." In
Finke, R.
(Ed.)
, The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in our Religious Economy.
New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press.
Finke, R.
and
L.R. Iannaccone
(1993).
"Supply-Side Explanations for Religious Change."
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 527:27-39.
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Finke, R.
and
R. Stark
(1993).
"Revising American Religious History: The Churching of America, 1776-1990."
Image File: A Journal of the Curt Teich Postcard Archives 7:2-6.
Stark, R.
and
R. Finke
(1993).
"A Rational Approach to the History of American Cults and Sects." In
Bromley, D.G.
and
J.K. Hadden
(Eds.)
, Handbook on Cults and Sects in America.
J.A.I. Press.
Finke, R.
(1994).
"The Quiet Transformation: Changes in Size and Leadership of Southern Baptist Churches."
Review of Religious Research 36:3-22.
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Stark, R.
,
R. Finke
and
L.R. Iannaccone
(1995).
"Pluralism and Piety: England and Wales, 1851."
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 34:431-444.
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Finke, R.
,
A. Guest
and
R. Stark
(1996).
"Mobilizing Religious Markets: Religious Pluralism in the Empire State, 1865."
American Sociological Review 61:203-218.
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Stark, R.
,
L.R. Iannaccone
and
R. Finke
(1996).
"Religion, Science, and Rationality."
American Economic Review 86:433-437.
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Finke, R.
(1997).
"The Consequences of Religious Competition: Supply-side Explanations for Religious Change." In
Young, L.A.
(Ed.)
, Rational Choice Theory and Religion.
New York, NY:
Routledge Press.
Finke, R.
(1997).
"The Illusion of Shifting Demand: Supply-Side Interpretations of American Religious History." In
Tweed, T.
(Ed.)
, Retelling U.S. Religious History.
Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Finke, R.
(1997).
"An Orderly Return to Tradition: Explaining the Recruitment of Members into Catholic Religious Orders."
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 36(2):218-230.
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Finke, R.
(1997).
"The Rewards of a Costly Community."
Review for Religious 56:412-427.
Iannaccone, L.R.
,
R. Finke
and
R. Stark
(1997).
"Deregulating Religion: The Economics of Church and State."
Economic Inquiry 35(2):350-364.
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Finke, R.
and
R. Stark
(1998).
"Religious Choice and Competition."
American Sociological Review 63(5):761-766.
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Iannaccone, L.R.
,
R. Stark
and
R. Finke
(1998).
"Rationality and the 'Religious Mind'."
Economic Inquiry 36(3):373-389.
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Pyle, R.
and
R. Finke
(1998).
"Forward to the Past: Predictions for the Future of U.S. Religion." In
Shupe, A.
and
B. Misztal
(Eds.)
, Religion, Mobilization, and Social Action.
Westport, CT:
Praeger.
Brunette-Hill, S.
and
R. Finke
(1999).
"A Time for Every Purpose: Updating and Extending Blizzard's Survey on Clergy Time Allocation."
Review of Religious Research 41(1):48-64.
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Finke, R.
and
R. Stark
(1999).
"Church Membership Has Increased throughout American History, Especially in the Most Demanding Groups." In
Allitt, P.
(Ed.)
, Major Problems in American Religious History.
Boston:
Houghton Mifflin.
(pp. 12-17)
Finke, R.
,
J. McKinney
and
M. Bahr
(1999).
"Democratizing Access to Data: The American Religion Data Archive."
International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology Quarterly (IASSIST) 23:11-13.
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Finke, R.
and
P. Wittberg
(2000).
"Organizational Revival from Within: Explaining Revivalism and Reform in the Roman Catholic Church."
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 39(2):154-170.
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Finke, R.
,
J. McKinney
and
M. Bahr
(2000).
"Doing Research and Teaching with the American Religion Data Archive: Initial Efforts to Democratize Access to Data." In
Hadden, J.K.
and
D.E. Cowan
(Eds.)
, Religion on the Internet.
J.A.I. Press.
Stark, R.
and
R. Finke
(2000).
Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion.
Berkeley:
University of California Press. Chinese translation published by the People's University Press of China, 2004.
Stark, R.
and
R. Finke
(2000).
"Catholic Religious Vocations: Decline and Revival."
Review of Religious Research 42(2):125-145.
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Finke, R.
(2001).
"An Unsecular America." In
Monahan, S.C.
,
W.A. Mirola
and
M.O. Emerson
(Eds.)
, Sociology of Religion: A Reader.
Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice-Hall.
(pp. 213-224)
Finke, R.
and
R. Stark
(2001).
"Four Religious Eruptions." In
Kivisto, P.
(Ed.)
, Exploring the Social: Readings in Contemporary Sociology.
Boston:
McGraw-Hill.
(pp. 353-363)
Finke, R.
and
R. Stark
(2001).
"The New Holy Clubs: Testing Church-to-Sect Propositions."
Sociology of Religion 62(2):175-189.
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Wybraniec, J.
and
R. 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(3):427-444.
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Finke, R.
and
K.D. Dougherty
(2002).
"The Effects of Professional Training: The Social and Religious Capital Acquired in Seminaries."
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41(1):103-120.
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Finke, R.
,
L.R. Iannaccone
and
R. Stark
(2002).
"Market Constraints and Religious Vitality."
Inchiesta 32(136):88-97.
McKinney, J.
and
R. Finke
(2002).
"Reviving the Mainline: An Overview of Clergy Support for Evangelical Renewal Movements."
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41(4):771-783.
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Stark, R.
and
R. Finke
(2002).
"Beyond Church and Sect: Dynamics and Stability in Religious Economies." In
Jelen, T.G.
(Ed.)
, Sacred Markets and Sacred Canopies: Essays on Religious Markets and Religious Pluralism.
Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield.
Finke, R.
and
P. Schwadel
(2003).
"Religion and Religious Affiliation." In
Dictionary of American History.
Charles Scribner's Sons.
Adamczyk, A.
,
J. Wybraniec
and
R. Finke
(2004).
"Religious Regulation and the Courts: Documenting the Effects of Smith and RFRA."
Journal of Church and State 46(2):237-262.
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Finke, R.
(2004).
"Innovative Returns to Tradition: Using Core Teachings as the Foundation for Innovative Accommodation."
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 43(1):19-34.
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Finke, R.
(2004).
"Innovative Returns to Tradition: Using Core Teachings as the Foundation for Innovative Accommodation."
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 43(1):19-34.
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Finke, R.
(2004).
"Observing Religion and Health." In
Schaie, K.W.
,
N.M. Krause
and
A. Booth
(Eds.)
, Religious Influences on Health and Well-Being in the Elderly.
New York:
Springer Publishing Company.
Finke, R.
and
R. Stark
(2004).
"The Dynamics of Religious Economies." In
Dillon, M.
(Ed.)
, Handbook of the Sociology of Religion.
New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Stark, R.
and
R. Finke
(2004).
"Religions in Context: The Response of Non-Mormon Faiths in Utah."
Review of Religious Research 45(3):293-298.
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Finke, R.
(2005).
"Church Membership in America: Trends and Explanations." In
Ebaugh, H.R.
(Ed.)
, Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions.
Plenum Press.
(pp. 335-352)
Finke, R.
and
C.P. Scheitle
(2005).
"Accounting for the Uncounted: Computing Correctives for the 2000 RCMS Data."
Review of Religious Research 47(1):5-22.
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Finke, R.
and
R. Stark
(2005).
The Churching of America, 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in our Religious Economy, Second Edition.
New Brunswick:
Rutgers University Press.
Grim, B.J.
and
R. Finke
(2005).
"Documenting Religion Worldwide: Decreasing the Data Deficit."
IASSIST Quarterly 29:11-16.
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Finke, R.
,
M. Bahr
and
C.P. Scheitle
(2006).
"Toward Explaining Congregational Giving."
Social Science Research 35(3):620-641.
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Grim, B.J.
and
R. Finke
(2006).
"International Religion Indexes: Government Regulation, Government Favoritism, and Social Regulation of Religion."
Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 2(Article 1).
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Grim, B.J.
,
R. Finke
,
J. Harris
,
C. Meyers
and
J. VanEerden
(2006).
"Measuring International Socio-Religious Values and Conflict by Coding U.S. State Department Reports." In
JSM Proceedings, AAPOR-Section on Survey Research Methods [CD-ROM].
Alexandria, VA:
American Statistical Association.
(pp. 4120-4127)
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Finke, R.
,
C.D. Bader
and
E.C. Polson
(2007).
"A Growing Web of Resources: The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) www.TheARDA.com."
Review of Religious Research 49(1):21-34.
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Grim, B.J.
and
R. Finke
(2007).
"Religious Persecution in Cross-National Context: Clashing Civilizations or Regulated Religious Economies?."
American Sociological Review 72(4):633-658.
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Finke, R.
and
A. Adamczyk
(2008).
"Cross-National Moral Beliefs: The Influence of National Religious Context."
Sociological Quarterly 49(4):617-652.
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Scheitle, C.P.
and
R. Finke
(2008).
"Maximizing Congregational Resources: Selection Versus Production."
Social Science Research 37(3):815-827.
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Finke, R.
and
C.P. Scheitle
(2009).
"Understanding Schisms: Theoretical Explanations for Their Origins." In
Lewis, J.R.
and
S.M. Lewis
(Eds.)
, Sacred Schisms: How Religions Divide.
New York:
Cambridge University Press.
(pp. 11-34)
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