The triumph of Christianity how the Jesus movement became the world's largest religion
"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 importa...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
HarperOne
2012
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| Edición: | 1st HarperCollins pbk ed |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b28957027*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 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.
