{"id":4827,"date":"2022-03-28T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/?p=4827"},"modified":"2022-03-28T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T20:39:11","slug":"an-idea-a-tribe-and-their-critics-rational-choice-and-the-sociology-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/2022\/03\/28\/an-idea-a-tribe-and-their-critics-rational-choice-and-the-sociology-of-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"An Idea, a Tribe, and Their Critics: Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The case of rational choice is one of a tribe within the broader tribe of sociologists of religion, identified by a distinctive sense of embattlement and by a particular jargon. The writing of the highly prolific founding scholar, Rodney Stark, is interspersed with dismissive, even offensive, remarks and often sarcastic attacks on the secularization thesis and its defenders (<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-pixabay-257037.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4878\" width=\"750\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-pixabay-257037.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-pixabay-257037-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-pixabay-257037-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-pixabay-257037-370x251.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-pixabay-257037-760x515.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\" id=\"Read-document\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/adlehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Rational-Choice-approach-to-Religion.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/adlehmann\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Rational-Choice-approach-to-Religion.pdf noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case of rational choice is one of a tribe within the broader tribe of sociologists of religion, identified by a distinctive sense of embattlement and by a particular jargon. The writing of the highly prolific founding scholar, Rodney Stark, is interspersed with dismissive, even offensive, remarks and often sarcastic attacks on the secularization thesis and its defenders (<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","category-published-papers"],"wbAuthor":{"name":"adlehmann","link":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/author\/adlehmann\/"},"wbDate":"Mar 28, 2022","wbCategories":{"space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/category\/publications\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Publications<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/category\/publications\/published-papers\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Published Papers<\/a>","coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/category\/publications\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Publications<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/category\/publications\/published-papers\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Published Papers<\/a>"},"wbComment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4916,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions\/4916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidlehmann.org\/lehmann\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}