The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion
Oct 2011 · Harper Collins
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The religious historian and author of God’s Battalions delivers an accessible and illuminating account of Christianity’s rise in the West.
In The Triumph of Christianity, celebrated sociologist and religious historian Rodney Stark traces the extraordinary rise of Christianity through its most pivotal and controversial moments to offer fresh perspective on the history of the world’s largest religion. Stark gathers and distills decades of authoritative research into a concise and highly readable volume that explores Christianity’s most crucial episodes.
Stark begins with an overview of the pre-Christian religious landscape before examining how Christianity spread among the Roman Empire’s elite—especially women—and then expanded throughout Europe. Eschewing dense chronologies, Stark delivers a fascinating and often surprising narrative, bringing readers right to the heart of Christian history’s most vital controversies and enduring lessons.
In The Triumph of Christianity, celebrated sociologist and religious historian Rodney Stark traces the extraordinary rise of Christianity through its most pivotal and controversial moments to offer fresh perspective on the history of the world’s largest religion. Stark gathers and distills decades of authoritative research into a concise and highly readable volume that explores Christianity’s most crucial episodes.
Stark begins with an overview of the pre-Christian religious landscape before examining how Christianity spread among the Roman Empire’s elite—especially women—and then expanded throughout Europe. Eschewing dense chronologies, Stark delivers a fascinating and often surprising narrative, bringing readers right to the heart of Christian history’s most vital controversies and enduring lessons.
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Rick Villa
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January 24, 2019
The Triumph of Christianity is an excellent book which added to my knowledge of why Christianity has been the primary factor in making the world a much better place. Rodney Stark tells us that even some of the ChiComs have figured this out. It's very good that Dr. Stark documents many of the assertions he makes because many of the points he makes are directly opposite of what popular history teaches. Among these are: Christians were stamped out in the Middle East and North Africa due to Muslim persecution and repression; that the Crusades weren't fought to make colonies, but because to protect pilgrims who wanted to see the Holy Land. There are many different ideas in his book. If you're interested in the history of the Church, I'd heartily urge you to buy this book. I'm glad I did.
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Dmytro Majewski
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May 5, 2020
Неймовірна книга, обов'язкова для прочитання.
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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, Discovering God, and The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. Stark received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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