the books The Future of Religion (1985) and A Theory of Religion (1987) with Bainbridge. Their theory, which aims to explain religious involvement in terms of rewards and compensators, is seen as a precursor of the more explicit recourse to economic principles in the study of religion as later developed by Laurence Iannaccone and others.

Criticism of secularization theories

Stark was one of the most vocal critics of theories of secularization.

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