Many books have been written about the success of the West, analyzing why Europe was able to pull ahead of the rest of the world by the end of the Middle Ages. The most common explanations cite the West's superior geography, commerce,...

What has the Reformation ever done for us?A lot less than you might think, as Rodney Stark shows in this enlightening and entertaining antidote to recent books about the rise of Protestantism and its legacy.'Rodney Stark takes no...

In seinem Buch "The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success" argumentiert Rodney Stark, dass das Christentum und seine einzigartigen Eigenschaften direkt zur Entwicklung der westlichen Kultur...

Der Aufstieg des Christentums

In "How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity", untersucht der Autor Rodney Stark die Gründe für den Aufstieg des Westens zur weltweiten Dominanz. Er argumentiert, dass es nicht auf Kolonialismus, Ausbeutung oder...

This "fresh, blunt, and highly persuasive account of how the West was won—for Jesus" (Newsweek) is now available in paperback. Stark's provocative report challenges conventional wisdom and finds that Christianity's astounding dominance...

Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History von Stark, Rodney

Celebrated religious and social historian Rodney Starktraces the extraordinary rise of Christianity through its most pivotal andcontroversial moments to offer fresh perspective on the history of the world'slargest religion. In The...