title: Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion
author:  Rodney Stark 
description: A "crucial exposition in an increasingly combative dispute about method in the sociology of religion."--"Times Literary Supplement
zlib_text: Acts of Faith
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  The publisher gratefully acknowledges 
  the generous contribution to this book 
  provided by the General Endowment Fund 
  of the Associates of the University of California Press.
  
  Acts of Faith
  Explaining the Human Side of Religion
  Rodney Stark 
  and 
  Roger Finke
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  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
  Berkeley
  Los Angeles
  London
  
  University of California Press
  Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
  University of California Press, Ltd.
  London, England
  ©  by the Regents of the University of California
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Stark, Rodney.
  Acts of faith : explaining the human side of religion / Rodney Stark and Roger Finke.
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  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN --- (alk. paper)—ISBN --- (pbk. : alk. paper)
  . Religion and sociology.
  I. Finke, Roger, –
  II. Title.
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