The rise of Mormonism /
Stark, Rodney.
The rise of Mormonism / Rodney Stark ; edited by Reid L. Neilson. - New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xi, 173 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-160) and index.
Extracting social scientific models from Mormon history -- Joseph Smith among the revelators -- Mormon networks of faith -- Rationality and Mormon sacrifice -- Modernization, secularization, and Mormon growth -- The basis of Mormon success -- The rise of a New World faith.
Will Mormonism be the next world faith, one that will rival Catholicism, Islam, and other major religions in terms of numbers and global appeal? This was the question Rodney Stark addressed in his much-discussed and much-debated article, ""The Rise of a New World Faith"" (1984), one of several essays on Mormonism included in this new collection. Examining the religion's growing appeal, Rodney Stark concluded that Mormons could number 267 million members by 2080. In what would become known as ""the Stark argument, "" Stark suggested that the Mormon Church offered contemporary sociologist.
023150991X 9780231509916
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mormon Church--History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology of Religion.
RELIGION--Christianity--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
Mormon Church.
United States--Church history.
United States.
Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
BX8611 / .S78 2005eb
306.6/893
The rise of Mormonism / Rodney Stark ; edited by Reid L. Neilson. - New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xi, 173 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-160) and index.
Extracting social scientific models from Mormon history -- Joseph Smith among the revelators -- Mormon networks of faith -- Rationality and Mormon sacrifice -- Modernization, secularization, and Mormon growth -- The basis of Mormon success -- The rise of a New World faith.
Will Mormonism be the next world faith, one that will rival Catholicism, Islam, and other major religions in terms of numbers and global appeal? This was the question Rodney Stark addressed in his much-discussed and much-debated article, ""The Rise of a New World Faith"" (1984), one of several essays on Mormonism included in this new collection. Examining the religion's growing appeal, Rodney Stark concluded that Mormons could number 267 million members by 2080. In what would become known as ""the Stark argument, "" Stark suggested that the Mormon Church offered contemporary sociologist.
023150991X 9780231509916
EB00639450 Recorded Books
22573/cttgqpwn JSTOR 41C19D57-3E8C-4B01-A3E2-8AA744E5C62E OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mormon Church--History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology of Religion.
RELIGION--Christianity--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
Mormon Church.
United States--Church history.
United States.
Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
BX8611 / .S78 2005eb
306.6/893
