The Rise of Christianity
How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Relgious Force.....
By Rodney Stark
(HarperOne, Paperback, 9780060677015, 272pp.)
Publication Date: May 9, 1997
Categories: Sociology of Religion, Christian Life - General, Christianity - History - General
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Description
Sociologist Rodney Stark combines his expertise in social science with historical evidence to offer a provocative report. Stark finds that early Christianity attracted the privileged rather than the poor, and that Christianity's astounding dominance of the Western world arose from its offer of a better, more secure way of life. Index. 9 photos. Map. Tables.
About the Author
Rodney Stark is the Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University. His thirty books on the history and sociology of religion include The Rise of Christianity; Cities of God; For the Glory of God, which won the 2004 Award of Merit for History/Biography from Christianity Today; Discovering God, which won the 2008 Award of Merit for Theology/Ethics from Christianity Today; and The Victory of Reason.
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