The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal, Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries by Rodney Stark

The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal, Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries



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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 Rodney Stark
Language: English
Page: 263
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0060677015, 9780060677015
Publisher: HarperCollins

"A provocative, insightful, challenging account of the rise of Christianity." -- -- Andrew M. Greeley, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago

"Compelling reading...highly recommended." -- Library Journal

"Rodney Stark's new book will challenge, provoke, and irritate. But anyone who has puzzled over Christianity's rise to dominance in the Roman Empire, after a scant four centuries, must read it. Here is theoretical brashness combined with disarming common sense, a capacious curiosity, and a most uncommon ability to tell a complicated story in simple prose." -- Wayne A. Meeks, Yale University

"Stark finds that Christians prospered the old-fashioned way: by providing a better, happier and more secure way of life.... In the end, Stark concludes, Christians 'revitalized' the Roman Empire." -- Kenneth Woodward, Newsweek

"This book raises, simply and brilliantly, just the kinds of questions anyone concerned with early Christianity should ask." -- Christian Century

"This book raises, simply and brilliantly, just the kinds of questions anyone concerned with early Christianity should ask." -- -- The Christian Century "Compelling reading" (Library Journal) that is sure to "generate spirited argument" (Publishers Weekly) , this account of Christianity's remarkable growth within the Roman Empire is already the subject of much fanfare. "Anyone who has puzzled over Christianity's rise to dominance... must read it," says Yale University's Wayne A. Meeks, for The Rise of Christianity makes a compelling case for startling conclusions. Combining his expertise in social science with historical evidence and his insight into contemporary religion's appeal, Stark finds that early Christianity attracted the privileged rather than the poor, that most early converts were women or marginalized Jews -- and ultimately "that Christianity was a success because it proved those who joined it with a more appealing, more assuring, happier, and perhaps longer life" (Andrew M. Greely, University of Chicago).

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