Rodney Stark
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The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World’s Largest Religion
$15.99 Add to cartCelebrated 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 w… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0062007696
- Language: English
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Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome
$16.99 Add to cartHow 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 Christ
- Author: Stark, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0061349887
- Language: English
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How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
$18.00 Read moreFinally 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 We… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 161017139X
- Language: English
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America’s Blessings: How Religion Benefits Everyone, Including Atheists
$18.95 Read moreA few years ago, a debate between atheists and religious believers spilled out from the halls of academia and the pews of America’s churches and into the public spotlight. A crop of atheist manifesto
- Author: Stark, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 159947445X
- Language: English
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Reformation Myths: Five Centuries Of Misconceptions And (Some) Misfortunes
$14.99 Add to cartWhat 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… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0281078270
- Language: English
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The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History
$19.95 Add to cartA landmark reinterpretation of why Christianity became the dominant faith of the West
The idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor is a widely accepted notion. Yet it is- Author: Stark, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0691248044
- Language: English
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God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
$17.99 Add to cartThe truth about the Christian Crusades and Muslim Jihad.
- Author: Stark, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0061582603
- Language: English
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The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries
$18.99 Add to cartRodney Stark’s “fresh, blunt, and highly persuasive account of how the West was won–for Jesus” (Newsweek)–a provocative report that challenges conventional wisdom and finds that Christianity’s astou
- Author: Stark, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 09 1997
- ISBN10: 0060677015
- Language: English
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Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History
$18.95 Add to cartAs we all know and as many of our well-established textbooks have argued for decades, the Inquisition was one of the most frightening and bloody chapters in Western history; Pope Pius XII was anti-Se
- Author: Stark, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1599475367
- Language: English
