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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Triumph of Christianity The Triumph of Christianity Rodney Stark Celebrated religious and social historian Rodney Starktraces the extraordinary rise of Christianity through its most pivotal andcontroversial moments to offer fresh perspective on the history of the … OL16444797W
Cities of God Cities of God Rodney Stark How did the preaching of a peasant carpenter from Galilee spark a movement that would grow to include over two billion followers? Who listened to this "good news," and who ignored it? Where did Chris… OL165416W
God's battalions God's battalions Rodney Stark In God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism, conducted for land, loot, and converts by barbarian … OL19853160W
Bearing false witness Bearing false witness Rodney Stark "As we all know and as many of our well established textbooks have argued for decades, the Inquisition was one of the most frightening and bloody chapters in Western history, Pope Pius XII was anti-S… OL20033090W
Why God? Why God? Rodney Stark 293 pages ; 23 cm OL20574165W