Rodney Stark is Professor of Sociology and of Comparative Religion, University of Washington. William SimsBainbridge is Director of the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation

• Chapter 1 Religion and the Moral Order: An Introduction; Part 1 Religion and Deviance; Chapter 2 Religion and Suicidefn2_a/We thank Daniel P. Doyle and Jesse Lynn Rushing who contibuted to an essay on which a portion of this Chapter is based.; Chapter 3 Durkheim's Suicide: An Inquest; Chapter 4 Rediscovering Moral Communitiesfn4_a/Danicl P. Doyle, Lori Kent, Robert Crutchfield, and Roger Finke contributed to essays on which portions of this Chapter are based.; Chapter 5 Religion as Context: Saving a “Lost Cause”; Chapter 6 Drugs and Alcohol; Part 2 Religion as Deviance; Chapter 7 Religious Cults; Chapter 8 Religion and Mental Illness; Chapter 9 Social Control in Utopian Communities; Chapter 10 Brief Reflections on a Research Agenda;

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