Rodney Stark: 16 books
by Rodney Stark
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
Will Mormonism be the next world faith, one that will rival Catholicism, Islam, and other major religions in terms of numbers and global appeal? This was the question Rodney Stark addressed in his much-discussed and much-debated article, "The Rise of a New World Faith" (1984), one of several...
Reformation Myths
Five Centuries Of Misconceptions And (Some) Misfortunes
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
What has the Reformation ever done for us?
A lot less than you might think, as Rodney Stark shows in this enlightening and entertaining antidote to recent books about the rise of Protestantism and its legacy.
‘Rodney Stark takes no prisoners as he charges through five hundred years...
How the West Won
The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Finally the Truth about the Rise of the West
Modernity developed only in the West—in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights,...
The Victory of Reason
How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Many books have been written about the success of the West, analyzing why Europe was able to pull ahead of the rest of the world by the end of the Middle Ages. The most common explanations cite the West’s superior geography, commerce, and technology. Completely overlooked is the fact that faith...
For the Glory of God
How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Rodney Stark's provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. Continuing his project of identifying the widespread consequences of monotheism, Stark shows that the Christian conception of God resulted--almost inevitably...
Cities of God
The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
How did the preaching of a peasant carpenter from Galilee spark a movement that would grow to include over two billion followers? Who listened to this "good news," and who ignored it? Where did Christianity spread, and how? Based on quantitative data and the latest scholarship, preeminent...
God's Battalions
The Case for the Crusades
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
In God’s Battalions, distinguished scholar Rodney Stark puts forth a controversial argument that the Crusades were a justified war waged against Muslim terror and aggression. Stark, the author of The Rise of Christianity, reviews the history of the seven major crusades from 1095-1291 in this fascinating work of religious revisionist history.
False testimonianze
Come smascherare alcuni secoli di storia anticattolica
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Nella vulgata politicamente corretta sono merce corrente non poche conclamate falsità storiche sulla Chiesa e sul cattolicesimo. Da molti secoli – in particolare dal tempo della Riforma – versioni distorte della verità, accettate dai più come fatti indiscutibili, sono sistematicamente usate...
Acts of Faith
Explaining the Human Side of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to discredit it as irrational, ignorant, or foolish—and Rodney Stark and Roger Finke have played a major role in this new approach. Acknowledging that science cannot assess the supernatural side of religion...
The Triumph of Christianity
How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Celebrated religious and social historian Rodney Starktraces the extraordinary rise of Christianity through its most pivotal andcontroversial moments to offer fresh perspective on the history of the world’slargest religion. In The Triumph of Christianity, the author of God’sBattalions and The...
Discovering God
The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Winner of the 2008 Christianity Today Award of Merit in Theology/Ethics
The History of God
In Discovering God, award-winning sociologist Rodney Stark presents a monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age and wrestles with the central questions of religion and belief.
The Triumph of Faith
Why the World is More Religious Than Ever
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The**Triumph of Faith explodes the myth that people around the world are abandoning religion. Stark marshals an incredible amount of data—surveys of more than a million people in 163 nations—to paint the full picture that both scholars and popular commentators have missed. He explains why the...
Religious Hostility
A Global Assessment of Hatred and Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Stark and Corcoran have assembled remarkable facts and figures with which to assess religious hatred and terrorism around the world. Not content merely to document the extent of religious hatred and terrorism, they also to explain why it occurs and whether it can be overcome. The world is aflame with...
Il trionfo della fede
Perché il mondo non è mai stato così religioso
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Nel suo ultimo saggio Stark dimostra con il consueto rigore l'infondatezza del mito secondo cui il mondo starebbe abbandonando la fede e la religione. Basandosi su un sondaggio che abbraccia più di un milione di persone in 163 nazioni, arriva alla conclusione opposta, ne spiega le ragioni e prevede...
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