» Dr. Christopher Bader

Professor

Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of Sociology

George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics

Email:

bader@chapman.edu

Education

Evergreen State College, Bachelor of Arts
Bowling Green State University, Master of Arts
University of Washington, Ph.D.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

Molle, Andrea and Christopher D. Bader. The Birth of "Paranormal Science" in Italy. (Forthcoming, 2012). In Paranormal Cultures, edited by Olu Jenzen and Sally R. Munt. London: Ashgate.

Desmond, Scott, Jeffrey Ulmer and Christopher D. Bader. (Forthcoming, 2012). "Religion, Self Control and Substance Use." Deviant Behavior.

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

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 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.

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.

Mencken, F. Carson, Christopher D. Bader and Jeanne Kim. (2009) "Round Trip to Hell in a Flying Saucer: The Relationship between Normative and Non-Normative Supernatural Beliefs in the United States." Sociology of Religion 70(1): 65-85..

Mencken, F. Carson, Christopher D. Bader and Elizabeth Embry. 2009. "In God We Trust: Images of God and Trust in the United States among the Highly Religious." Sociological Perspectives 52: 23-38.

Dougherty, Kevin D., Christopher D. Bader, Paul Froese, Edward Polson and Buster Smith. (2009). “Religious Diversity in a Conservative Baptist Congregation.” Review of Religious Research. 50(3): 321-334.