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Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies

In Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies, Ted. G. Jelen brings together the leading scholars in the soc...

Gottes Krieger

Victory of Reason

Many books have been written about the success of the West, analyzing why Europe was able to pull...

For the Glory of God

Rodney Stark's provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the...

The Rise of Mormonism

Will Mormonism be the next world faith, one that will rival Catholicism, Islam, and other major r...

Religion, Deviance, and Social Control

Does religion have the power to regulate human behavior? If so, under what conditions can it prev...

Bearing False Witness

The following historical statements all appear in well-established textbooks, and have become par...

Reformation Myths

What has the Reformation ever done for us?A lot less than you might think, as Rodney Stark shows ...

Religion, Deviance, and Social Control

Does religion have the power to regulate human behavior? If so, under what conditions can it prev...

One True God

Western history would be unrecognizable had it not been for people who believed in One True God. ...

Acts of Faith

Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to ...

Bearing False Witness

As we all know and as many of our well-established textbooks have argued for decades, the Inquisi...