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    William Sims Bainbridge (born October 12, 1940) is an American sociologist who currently resides in Virginia. He is co-director of Cyber-Human Systems...
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  • journalist Maury Terry, and in the early 1970s, the sociologist William Sims Bainbridge. In 1974, MacLean and de Grimston separated. The latter tried to...
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  • Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation (1985, with William Sims Bainbridge), and for The Churching of America 1776–1990 (1992, with Roger...
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  • footballer William G. Bainbridge (1925–2008), U.S. Army officer William Sims Bainbridge (born 1940), American sociologist William Seaman Bainbridge (1870–1947)...
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    the West Coast of the United States in 1985 by Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge, who found that California, Oregon, and Washington had the United...
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    nature by mythologizing science". Sociologists Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge describe the SCI videotapes as largely based on the Bhagavad Gita...
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    No Other Gods: Emergent Monotheism in Israel (1997), p. 167. William Sims Bainbridge, eGods: Faith versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming (2013), p. 57....
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  • (did not graduate), film and TV actress William Attwood '37, diplomat and journalist William Sims Bainbridge '58, sociologist Felix Barker (exchange student)...
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    Seaman's descendants include surgeon William Seaman Bainbridge (Lucy's son) and sociologist William Sims Bainbridge (Lucy's great-grandson). De Forest,...
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  • book Theory of Religion, American sociologists Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge propose that the formation of cults can be explained through the...
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    the rest of society. The American sociologists Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge assert that "sects claim to be authentic purged, refurbished version...
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    William Seaman Bainbridge (February 17, 1870 – September 22, 1947) was an American surgeon and gynecologist. He served as a naval physician in the United...
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  • Bizarre and Terrifying Propaganda Art of the Children of God". Vice. William Sims Bainbridge, The Endtime Family: Children of God (New York: State University...
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    reader. In a study of fantasy and science fiction literature, William Sims Bainbridge (1986: 136) explained: "The author uses evocative language and...
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    Religious Science, and Moorish Science Temple of America. Sociologist William Sims Bainbridge cites Scientology's origins in the subcultures of science fiction...
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  • University Press. pp. 753–767. ISBN 978-0-253-34687-2. OCLC 61711172. Bainbridge, William Sims (November 2004). "Religion and science". Futures. 36 (9): 1009–1023...
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  • of the ceremony, I was asked to kneel in front of the altar." Bainbridge, William Sims (1997). The Sociology of Religious Movements. New York: Routledge...
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  • of organized religions. Major proponents of the theory include William Sims Bainbridge, Roger Finke, Laurence Iannaccone, and Rodney Stark. The idea of...
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    fortifications as dry run before proceeding to Japan. Sociologist William Sims Bainbridge has recounted this version of Thompson's Navy espionage adventures:...
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  • that trace back to the Enlightenment. Following this dialogue, William Sims Bainbridge, a sociologist of religion, conducted a pilot study, published...
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  • MissingNo. A 2007 paper, co-authored by sociologist William Sims Bainbridge and his daughter Wilma Bainbridge (then a cognitive science student), refers to...
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  • raw material for a postmodern creation myth. — Karl W. Giberson William Sims Bainbridge disagreed with de Chardin's optimism about a future Omega point...
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    Morrison suggested the lawyers obtain a copy of a book written by William Sims Bainbridge in 1978, titled Satan's Power: A Deviant Psychotherapy Cult, which...
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    Religions Behind Final Fantasy" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-02-02. Bainbridge, William Sims; Bainbridge, Wilma Alice (2007). "Electronic game research methodologies:...
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  • In their study of religion in video games (2007), William Sims Bainbridge and Wilma Alice Bainbridge examined several offline and online video games, among...
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  • modern world. Routledge. pp. 33. ISBN 0-415-25747-6. Stark, Rodney; William Sims Bainbridge (1986). The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult...
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    collectivity as 'in error'." In 1975, the sociologists Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge distinguish three types of cults, classified on the basis of the...
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    among others by the sociologists Rodney Stark (1934 – 2022) and William Sims Bainbridge (1940 – ). They see religions as systems of "compensators", and...
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  • sins." In his book The Sociology of Religious Movements (1996), William Sims Bainbridge cites the research of Roy Wallis, in noting "Scientology ... has...
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