It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
Bio: Rodney William Stark was an American sociologist of religion who was a long time professor of sociology and of comparative religion at the University of Washington.
Known for:
The Rise of Christianity (1996)
God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades (2009)