Description: Further DetailsTitle: For the Glory of GodCondition: NewEAN: 9780691119502ISBN: 9780691119502Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/29/2004Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 680gAuthor: Rodney StarkLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of SlaveryISBN-10: 0691119503Description: Rodney Stark's provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. Continuing his project of identifying the widespread consequences of monotheism, Stark shows that the Christian conception of God resulted--almost inevitably and for the same reasons--in the Protestant Reformation, the rise of modern science, the European witch-hunts, and the Western abolition of slavery. In the process, he explains why Christian and Islamic images of God yielded such different cultural results, leading Christians but not Muslims to foster science, burn "witches," and denounce slavery. With his usual clarity and skepticism toward the received wisdom, Stark finds the origins of these disparate phenomena within monotheistic religious organizations. Endemic in such organizations are pressures to maintain religious intensity, which lead to intense conflicts and schisms that have far-reaching social results. Along the way, Stark debunks many commonly accepted ideas.He interprets the sixteenth-century flowering of science not as a sudden revolution that burst religious barriers, but as the normal, gradual, and direct outgrowth of medieval theology. He also shows that the very ideas about God that sustained the rise of science led also to intense witch-hunting by otherwise clear-headed Europeans, including some celebrated scientists. This conception of God likewise yielded the Christian denunciation of slavery as an abomination--and some of the fiercest witch-hunters were devoted participants in successful abolitionist movements on both sides of the Atlantic. For the Glory of God is an engrossing narrative that accounts for the very different histories of the Christian and Muslim worlds. It fundamentally changes our understanding of religion's role in history and the forces behind much of what we point to as secular progress.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Society & CultureRelease Year: 2004 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: For the Glory of God
Title: For the Glory of God
EAN: 9780691119502
ISBN: 9780691119502
Release Date: 08/29/2004
Release Year: 2004
Subtitle: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the
ISBN-10: 0691119503
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 504 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: For the Glory of God : How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2004
Item Height: 1.2 in
Subject: Slavery, Theism, Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), Christianity / History, Comparative Religion, Europe / General, Sociology of Religion, Religion & Science
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 24 Oz
Author: Rodney. Stark
Subject Area: Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
