TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stark,Rodney
AU  - Neilson,Reid Larkin
TI  - The rise of Mormonism
SN  - 023150991X
AV  - BX8611 .S78 2005eb
U1  - 306.6/893 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Mormon Church
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Sociology of Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
KW  - United States
KW  - Church history
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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