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The rise of Christianity : a sociologist reconsiders history / Rodney Stark.

By: Stark, Rodney
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: xiv, 246 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0691027498 (cloth : acidfree paper)Subject(s): Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | Christian sociology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600DDC classification: 306.6/701 LOC classification: BR166 | .S75 1996Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-242) and index.
Contents:
Conversion and Christian growth -- The class basis of early Christianity -- The mission to the Jews: Why it probably succeeded -- Epidemics, networks, and conversion -- The role of women in Christian growth -- Christianizing the urban empire: A quantitative -- Urban chaos and crisis: The case of Antioch -- The martyrs: Sacrifice as rational choice -- Opportunity and organization -- A brief reflection on virtue.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-242) and index.

Conversion and Christian growth -- The class basis of early Christianity -- The mission to the Jews: Why it probably succeeded -- Epidemics, networks, and conversion -- The role of women in Christian growth -- Christianizing the urban empire: A quantitative -- Urban chaos and crisis: The case of Antioch -- The martyrs: Sacrifice as rational choice -- Opportunity and organization -- A brief reflection on virtue.

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