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America's Blessings How Religion Benefits Everyone including Atheists by STARK RODNEY
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Bearing False Witness - Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History by Professor Rodney Stark (Baylor University)
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Bearing False WitnessDebunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History by Rodney Stark
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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-Semitic and rightfully called "Hitler's Pope," the Dark Ages were a stunting of the progress of knowledge t ...Show more
Discovering God: The Origins of the great Religions and the Evolution of Belief by Rodney Stark
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Discovering God is a monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age. Sociologist Rodney Stark surveys the birth and growth of religions around the world--from the prehistoric era of primal beliefs; the history of the pyramids found in Iraq, Egypt, Mexico, a ...Show more
God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades by Rodney Stark
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A respected and controversial scholar argues that the Crusades were a justified war waged against Muslim terror and aggression.
How the West Won - The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity by Rodney Stark
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Finally the Truth about the Rise of the WestModernity developed only in the West--in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and ...Show more
How the West Won the Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity by STARK RODNEY
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Religious Hostility A Global Assessment of Hatred & Terror by STARK RODNEY & CORCORAN KATIE E
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Star in the East The Rise of Christianity in China by STARK RODNEY & WANG XIUHUA
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Star in the East The Rise of Christianity in China by STARK RODNEY & WANG XIUHUA
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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 by Rodney Stark
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It is a widely accepted notion that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor. Yet this is one of many myths that must be discarded if we are to understand just how a tiny messianic movement on the edge of the Roman Empire became the dominant faith of Western civilization. In this fa ...Show more
The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion by Rodney Stark
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In The Triumph of Christianity, acclaimed religious and social historian Rodney Stark explains how an obscure Jewish sect became the largest religion in the world and presents the real story behind the tragedies and triumphs that have shaped the trajectory of the Christian faith-- and indeed, much of gl ...Show more