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  • RELIGION, DEVIANCE, AND SOCIAL CONTROL
    RODNEY STARK / WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE
    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 ordinary citizens assume religion deters deviant behavior, there has been little systematic scientific research on these crucial questions. This book is the first comprehensive analysis,...

    $1,600.00

  • THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY
    RODNEY STARK
    The religious historian and author of God's Battalions delivers an accessible and illuminating account of Christianity's rise in the West. In The Triumph of Christianity, celebrated sociologist and religious historian Rodney Stark traces the extraordinary rise of Christianity through its most pivotal and controversial moments to offer fresh perspective on the history of the wor...

    $274.00

  • GOD'S BATTALIONS
    RODNEY STARK
    The author of The Rise of Christianity reviews the history of the seven major crusades from 1095-1291 in this work of religious revisionist history. Distinguished and award-winning scholar Rodney Stark takes on the current vogue in liberal thinking to argue that, in fact, the Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not cond...

    $314.00

  • DISCOVERING GOD
    RODNEY STARK
    An award-winning sociologist's "fascinating and excellent" history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age (Newsweek). In Discovering God, 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, and Cambodia; and the great "Axi...

    $229.00

  • CITIES OF GOD
    RODNEY STARK
    An "intriguing" study of how early Christianity caught on and converted much of the world, rooted in archaeological and statistical evidence ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review). How did the preaching of a peasant carpenter from Galilee spark a movement that would grow to over two billion followers? Who listened to this "good news," and who ignored it? Where did Christianity sprea...

    $179.00