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Exploring the Religious Life
Rodney Stark
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Description for Exploring the Religious Life
Hardback. Together, the essays that constitute Exploring the Religious Life offer an engaging introduction to Rodney Stark's provocative insights and a fearless challenge to academic perceptions about religion's place in history, society, and private life. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRC; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Though religion is for most people one of the most important aspects of their lives, social scientists and other observers of human society too often misunderstand and misrepresent the nature and role of religion in history and in daily life. From the supposed decline of religious attitudes in Western Europe and the venal motivations attributed to the Christian Crusaders to the very definition of religion, personal biases and an inadequate grasp of relevant data have led to the formulation and propagation of unsupportable views on the sacred. In Exploring the Religious Life, Rodney Stark boldly overturns much received wisdom ... Read more
Though religion is for most people one of the most important aspects of their lives, social scientists and other observers of human society too often misunderstand and misrepresent the nature and role of religion in history and in daily life. From the supposed decline of religious attitudes in Western Europe and the venal motivations attributed to the Christian Crusaders to the very definition of religion, personal biases and an inadequate grasp of relevant data have led to the formulation and propagation of unsupportable views on the sacred. In Exploring the Religious Life, Rodney Stark boldly overturns much received wisdom ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801878442
SKU
V9780801878442
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About Rodney Stark
Rodney Stark was for many years a professor of sociology at the University of Washington. Since 2004, he has been University Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University. He is the author of numerous books, including One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism and The Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and ... Read more
Reviews for Exploring the Religious Life
Rodney Stark, whom some consider, not without reason, today's most provocative thinker in the sociology of religion. This book of essays is a sampler of Stark's sometimes contrarian but always suggestive explorations into 'the religious life.' First Things 2004 [Stark] has been throwing elegant, polished bricks at the dogmas of sociology for many years... Exploring the Religious Life is a ... Read more