One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism. (Briefly Noted).(Review)

From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: November 1, 2001 | Copyright information

ONE TRUE GOD: HISTORICAL CONSEQUENCES OF MONOTHEISM. By RODNEY STARK. Princeton University Press. 256 pp. $24.95.

Sociologist Rodney Stark is, as they say, controversial. In book after book, he sets out to overturn received wisdoms, and with his earlier The Rise of Christianity he ruffled the feathers of the historical establishment. The present book, which is also eminently worth reading, continues that pattern as Stark gives new meaning to "interdisciplinary" in his im...

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