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Rodney Stark, in his authoritative study The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History,18 discusses the rise of Christianity in its early
Vishal Mangalwadi • The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
One of the most influential books about American religion in the past five decades was Why Conservative Churches Are Growing, by Dean M. Kelley, first published in 1972.
Bob Smietana • Reorganized Religion
Despite this ‘evidence,’ a consensus has formed among historians of the early church that regardless of biblical assurances to the lower classes, the early Christians were drawn mainly from the ranks of the privileged. E. A. Judge identified the early Christians as recruited mainly from among “a socially pretentious section of the population of big
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Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (EUSLR))
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