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020			_a9780062007681 (hardback)
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100	1		_aStark, Rodney. _914000
245	1	4	_aThe triumph of Christianity : _bhow the Jesus movement became the world's largest religion / _cby Rodney Stark.
260			_aNew York : _bHarperOne, _c2011.
300			_a506 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aInclided bibliographical references (pages 419-406) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- The religious context -- Many Judaisms -- Jesus and the Jesus movement -- Missionizing the Jews and the Gentiles -- Christianity and privilege -- Misery and mercy -- Appeals to women -- Persecution and commitment -- Assessing Christian growth -- Constantine's very mixed blessings -- The demise of paganism -- Islam and the destruction of Eastern and North African Christianity -- Europe responds : the case for the Crusades -- The "Dark Ages" and other mythical eras -- The people's religion -- Faith and the scientific "Revolution" -- Two "churches" and the challenge of heresy -- Luther's reformation -- The shocking truth about the Spanish Inquisition -- Pluralism and American piety -- Secularization : facts and fantasies -- Globalization -- Conclusion.
520			_a"Religious historian and sociologist Rodney Stark has spent his career engaging with that very question. Indeed, after thirty highly regarded books on the matter, he has created a true master course in Christian history. Now, for the first time, he distills his research to just the most important and interesting episodes--the seminal moments in the story that, he now believes, demand new perspectives. Stark gets right to the events of greatest interest, often turning them on their heads: He argues that Constantine's conversion did the Church a great deal of harm, for example, and that the majority of converts to early Christianity were women. And he asks the questions at the heart of the human story: What role did Jesus's family play in the early Church? How was Christianity's rise influenced by the misery of daily life in Greco-Roman cities? What role did vigorous competition play in the success, and failure, of churches in colonial America? Finally, having brought readers to the present day, Stark makes a compelling case that the popular notion that religion must disappear to make room for modernity is amply disproved by the sociological evidence. No one is better equipped than Rodney Stark to get to the heart of the story that has shaped two millennia's worth of history. For scholars and armchair historians alike, The Triumph of Christianity is a brisk and thought-provoking journey through events we think we know--and need to reconsider"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aChurch history. _9117
650		7	_aRELIGION _xGeneral. _2bisacsh _914001
650		7	_aChurch history. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00860740 _9117
650		7	_aChurch history. _2sears _9117
650		7	_aChristentum. _2idszbz _92535
650		7	_aKirchengeschichte. _2idszbz _914002
650		7	_aSozialgeschichte. _2idszbz _914003
650		7	_aReligionssoziologie. _2idszbz _914004
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