For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery.(Book Review) From: The Christian Century | Date: November 15, 2003| Author: Pals, Daniel L. | COPYRIGHT 2003 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By Rodney Stark. Princeton University Press, 488 pp., $18.95.

THIS VOLUME completes an ambitious two-part study of monotheism in Western culture that began with One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism (Princeton University Press, 2001). As with the previous elk fort, Rodney Stark's aim is to show that belief in one God--a supreme, personal and perfectly good Being--has exerted a definitive shaping influence on certain events and institutions in the West.

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