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zingerella: "Exchange between humans and gods: In the later version of Stark’s theory, religious life is analyzed in terms of the conditions influencing the nature of the exchanges envisioned between humans and gods in terms of the relative rewards and costs of the different kinds of transactions imagined."
commodorified: I seem to recall this. Rodney Stark, as in Stark and Bainbridge? Or as we used to oh-so-sensitively refer to them, Stark and Raving?[1]
zingerella: Stark, Rodney, The Sociology of Religion. It's from the glossary to the textbook I'm proofreading.
commodorified: Alternately, awesome prompt for Tony Stark/Thor.
zingerella: That was kind of where my mind went.
[1] The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation is... a very ODD book.
zingerella: "Exchange between humans and gods: In the later version of Stark’s theory, religious life is analyzed in terms of the conditions influencing the nature of the exchanges envisioned between humans and gods in terms of the relative rewards and costs of the different kinds of transactions imagined."commodorified: I seem to recall this. Rodney Stark, as in Stark and Bainbridge? Or as we used to oh-so-sensitively refer to them, Stark and Raving?[1]zingerella: Stark, Rodney, The Sociology of Religion. It's from the glossary to the textbook I'm proofreading.commodorified: Alternately, awesome prompt for Tony Stark/Thor.zingerella: That was kind of where my mind went.[1] The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation is... a very ODD book.