»Christopher Bader

Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Society
Professor, Sociology, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Studies Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department

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E-mail: bader@chapman.edu

Ph.D. Sociology, University of Washington, 2002
M.A. Sociology, Bowling Green State University, 1995
B.A. Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College, 1991

Christopher D. Bader is a professor of Sociology and chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department of Chapman University in Orange, California. Dr. Bader is co-director of the Association of Religion Data Archive (www.thearda.com). He is the author of six books and co-authors the forthcoming Paranormal Britain: Alternative Belief Systems in Britain (Bloomsbury). He has published over fifty peer-reviewed journal articles.

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Clark, Tom, Scott A. Desmond and Christopher D. Bader. 2024. “Measuring Religious Evil: Examining the use of Single-Item Measures in Religious Research.” Review of Religious Research.

Bader, Christopher and Pete Simi. 2024. "How Many Americans Support Political Violence? A State of Science Assessment." Report to the US Department of Homeland Security.

Desmond, Scott A., Tom Clark & Christopher D. Bader. 2022. “Sympathy for the Devil: Belief in Satan and Moral Beliefs,” Deviant Behavior DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2022.2092786

Mencken, F. Carson, Christopher D. Bader and L. Edward Day. Forthcoming 2021. "Fear of Crime on Community Engagement: Nonadditive and Nonlinear Effects by Gender." The Sociological Quarterly.

Baker, Joseph O., Christopher D. Bader and Amy Edmonds. Forthcoming 2021. "Xenophobia, Partisanship, and Support for Donald Trump and the Republican Party." Race and Social Problems.

Bader, Christopher, D., Joseph O. Baker, L. Edward Day and C. Ann Gordon. 2020. Fear Itself: The Causes and Consequences of Fear in America. New York: NYU Press.

Baker, Joseph, Andrea Molle and Christopher D. Bader. (2020). "The Flesh and The Devil: Belief in Religious Evil and Views of Sexual Morality." Review of Religious Research. 62: 133-151.

Bader, Christopher. (2020). "UFO Cults." The Sage Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Bader, Christopher and Joseph O. Baker. 2019. Deviance Management: Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders and Drifters. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

Bader, Christopher, Andrea Molle, James Coyle and Benjamin Gurrentz. 2017. "For the Wrath of God: Fatalism and Images of God in Violent Regions of the World." Sociology of Religion 78(2): 173-191.

Fox, Jonathan, Christopher Bader, & Jennifer McClure “Don’t Get Mad: The Disconnect between Religious Discrimination and Individual Perceptions of Government” Conflict Management & Peace Science, 2017, DOI: 10.1177/0738894217723160.

Bader, Christopher, Joseph O. Baker and F. Carson Mencken. Paranormal America (2nd Edition). New York: NYU Press.

Finke, Roger and Christopher Bader. Faithful Measures: The Art and Science of Measuring Religion. New York: NYU Press.

Baker, Joseph O., Christopher D. Bader and F. Carson Mencken. 2016. "A Bounded Affinity Theory of Religion and the Paranormal." Sociology of Religion 77(4): 334-358.

Froese, Paul and Christopher D. Bader. (2015). American's Four Gods (2nd Edition). New York: Oxford University Press.

Bader, Christopher and Roger Finke. (2014) "Toward Assessing and Improving Survey Measures on Religion: The ARDA's Measurement Wizard." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53(3): 652-661.

Baker, Joseph O. and Christopher D. Bader. (2014). "A Social Anthropology of Ghosts in 21st Century America." Social Compass. 61:4.

Baker, Joseph O., Christopher D. Bader and Kittye Hirsch. (2014) "Desecration, Moral Boundaries, and the Movement of Law: The Case of Westboro Baptist Church." Deviant Behavior 36(1): 42-67.

Molle, Andrea and Christopher D. Bader. The Birth of "Paranormal Science" in Italy. (2013). In Paranormal Cultures, edited by Olu Jenzen and Sally R. Munt. London: Ashgate.

Desmond, Scott, Jeffrey Ulmer and Christopher D. Bader. (2013). "Religion, Self Control and Substance Use." Deviant Behavior. 34:5, 384-406.

Bader, Christopher, Joseph O. Baker and Andrea Molle. (2012). "Countervailing Forces: Religiosity and Paranormal Belief in Italy." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 51(4): 705-720.

Bader, Christopher and Ashley Palmer. 2011. "Scared into Church? Conceptions of God, Exclusivity, and Religious Practice in the United States." Religion, Spirituality and Everyday Practice, edited by Giuseppe Giordan and William H. Swatos, Jr. New York: Springer.

Finke, Roger, Christopher D. Bader and Andrew Whitehead. (2011). "Innovations in the Development and Use of Social Science Data Archives." Leadership in Science and Technology: A Reference Handbook, edited by William Sims Bainbridge.

Finke, Roger and Christopher D. Bader. (2011). “Data and Directions for Research in the Economics of Religion.” The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion, edited by Rachel McCleary. Oxford University Press.

Bader, Christopher, Scott Desmond, F. Carson Mencken and Byron Johnson. (2010) "Divine Justice: How Images of God Impact Attitudes Toward Criminal Punishment." Criminal Justice Review 35(1): 90-106.

Bader, Christopher D., F. Carson Mencken and Joseph Baker. (October, 2010) Paranormal America: Ghost encounters, UFO sightings, Bigfoot hunts and other Curiosities in Religion and Culture. NYU Press.

Paul Froese and Christopher D. Bader. (October, 2010) America's Four Gods: What we say about God and what that says about us. Oxford University Press.

Bader, Christopher D. and Roger Finke. (2010). “Religion and Moral Attitudes.” Handbook on the Sociology of Morality, edited by Steven Hitlin and Steven Vaisey. Springer.

Co-Principal Investigator on Learning from the Past and Building for the Future: Designing and Disseminating Measures of Spiritual Information for a New Era. Templeton Foundation. ($992,034). Dates Fall 2011—Fall 2013.

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