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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
PART I - Christmas Eve
Chapter One - The Religious Context
Chapter Two - Many Judaisms
PART II - Christianizing the Empire
Chapter Three - Jesus and the Jesus Movement
Chapter Four - Missions to the Jews and the Gentiles
Chapter Five - Christianity and Privilege
Chapter Six - Misery and Mercy
Chapter Seven - Appeals to Women
Chapter Eight - Persecution and Commitment
Chapter Nine - Assessing Christian Growth
PART III - Consolidating Christian Europe
Chapter Ten - Constantine’s Very Mixed Blessings
Chapter Eleven - The Demise of Paganism
Chapter Twelve - Islam and the Destruction of Eastern and North African Christianity
Chapter Thirteen - Europe Responds
PART IV - Medieval Currents
Chapter Fourteen - The “Dark Ages” and Other Mythical Eras
Chapter Fifteen - The People’s Religion
Chapter Sixteen - Faith and the Scientific “Revolution”
PART V - Christianity Divided
Chapter Seventeen - Two “Churches” and the Challenge of Heresy
Chapter Eighteen - Luther’s Reformation
Chapter Nineteen - The Shocking Truth About the Spanish Inquisition
PART VI - New Worlds and Christian Growth
Chapter Twenty - Pluralism and American Piety
Chapter Twenty-One - Secularization
Chapter Twenty-Two - Globalization
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index
About the Author
Also by Rodney Stark
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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