Monotheism's legacy From: Skeptic | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Callahan, Tim | Copyright Millennium Press, Inc. 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

A review of One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism by Rodney Stark 2001 Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, $24.95, pp. 319.

ARGUABLY, NO SINGLE

philosophical idea has had more influence on civilization and history than the concept of monotheism. The religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam combine a sophisticated religious doctrine, in most cases superior to that of the polytheistic religions they have supplanted, with an intensity of belief suf...

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