Rodney Stark is University Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University. He is the author of more than twenty books, including
For the Glory of God and
Exploring the Religious Life.Reid L. Neilson is the author and editor of several books on Mormonism. He is currently a doctoral candidate in religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
24 Ebooks by Rodney Stark
Rodney Stark: The Rise of Mormonism
Will Mormonism be the next world faith, one that will rival Catholicism, Islam, and other major religions in terms of numbers and global appeal? This was the question Rodney Stark addressed in his mu …
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Rodney Stark: Bearing False Witness
The following historical statements all appear in well-established textbooks, and have become part of our common culture. Which of them would you say are true?
* The Catholic Church incited and …
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€13.99
Rodney Stark: Reformation Myths
What 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 it …
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Roger Finke & Rodney Stark: Acts of Faith
Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to discredit it as irrational, ignorant, or foolish—and Rodney Stark and Roger Finke have played a major …
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Rodney Stark: One True God
Western history would be unrecognizable had it not been for people who believed in One True God. There would have been wars, but no religious wars. There would have been moral codes, but no Commandme …
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Rodney Stark: For the Glory of God
Rodney Stark’s provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. Continuing his project of identifying the widespread con …
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Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies
Can individual decisions concerning whether or where to attend church, to contribute time or money to religious organizations, or to forgo certain activities be explained as a special case of …
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€55.31
William Sims Bainbridge & Rodney Stark: Religion, Deviance, and Social Control
Does religion have the power to regulate human behavior? If so, under what conditions can it prevent crime, delinquency, suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, or joining cults? Despite the fact that …
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€68.57
William Sims Bainbridge & Rodney Stark: Religion, Deviance, and Social Control
Does religion have the power to regulate human behavior? If so, under what conditions can it prevent crime, delinquency, suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, or joining cults? Despite the fact that …
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€68.41
Stark Rodney Stark: America’s Blessings : How Religion Benefits Everyone, Including Atheists
A 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 man …
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€14.96
Stark Rodney Stark & Wang Xiuhua Wang: A Star in the East : The Rise of Christianity in China
What is the state of Christianity in China? Some scholars say that China is invulnerable to religion. In contrast, others say that past efforts of missionaries have failed, writing off those conv …
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€16.33
Stark Rodney Stark: Why God? : Explaining Religious Phenomena
Why is it that the majority of people, from all socio-economic, education, and ethnic backgrounds, ascribe to some sort of faith? What draws us to religion? What pushes us away? And what exactl …
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Rodney Stark: The Rise of Christianity
A 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 i …
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Rodney Stark: Gottes Krieger
Dieses Buch räumt mit der gängigen Sicht auf, die Kreuzzüge seien ein brutaler, imperialistischer, räuberischer Feldzug des christlichen Abendlandes gegen einen gebildeten, toleranten und friedlichen …
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Rodney Stark: Sociology of Religion
For the last five decades, Rodney Stark has been one of sociology’s most prolific and important scholars of religion. The theoretical depth, the scientific rigor, and the clarity of style manifested …
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Rodney Stark: What Americans Really Believe
A shocking snapshot of the most current impulses in American religion. Rodney Stark reports the surprising findings of the 2007 Baylor Surveys of Religion, a follow up to the 2005 survey revealing mo …
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€26.99
Rodney Stark: Der Sieg des Abendlandes. Christentum und kapitalistische Freiheit
Das Mittelalter, die menschheitsgeschichtlich gigantische Epoche zwischen dem 6. und dem 15. Jahrhundert, soll also ‘finster’ und ‘dumpf’ gewesen sein? Eine Karenzzeit der geistigen, kulturellen und …
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Byron R. Johnson: Objective Religion
Though many scholars and commentators have predicted the death of religion, the world is more religious today than ever before. And yet, despite the persistence of religion, it remains a woefully und …
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€38.99
William Sims Bainbridge & Rodney Stark: The Future of Religion
Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected social theorists predicted the death of …
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€59.99
Rodney Stark: How the West Won
Finally the Truth about the Rise of the West Modernity developed only in the Westin Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only …
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€15.25
Rodney Stark: Triumph of Faith
God is not dead. Wall Street Journal Believe it or not, the world is more religious than ever before. Everyone seems to take it for granted that the world is getting more secularthat faith is doomed …
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€17.60
Charles Y. Glock & Rodney Stark: American Piety
How religious are Americans these days? How many still believe in God, in Biblical miracles, in heaven and hell? Do people pray? How much money is being given to churches, by Episcopalians, …
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€43.99
Rodney Stark: La expansión del cristianismo
¿Cómo fue posible la expansión de un pequeño movimiento mesiánico nacido en los confines del Imperio romano, hasta llegar a convertirse en la religión dominante de la civilización occidental? En …
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