For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witchhunts, and the End of Slavery.(Book Review)

From: Journal of Church and State | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Petersen, Rodney L. | Copyright information

For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-hunts, and the End of Slavery. By Rodney Stark. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. 496 pp. $35.00 paper.

This book, the second of a two-volume project on the social consequences of monotheism, carries Stark's controversial argument forward. In One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism (2001), Stark focused on issues of history; here the question is that of culture. Reversin...

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