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ISBN10: 0691114366, ISBN13: 9780691114361, [publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey] Softcover 488 Pages Indexed. This is the sixth printing and the first paperback printing. An as new book with flawless interior text pages. The author 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 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 ...
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ISBN10: 0691114366, ISBN13: 9780691114361, [publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford] Hardcover 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 488pp. Black and white photographs, bibliography, index. Black cloth in dust jacket. Name on front free endpaper. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
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ISBN10: 0691114366, ISBN13: 9780691114361, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover Contents are tight; red ink underlining
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ISBN10: 0691114366, ISBN13: 9780691114361, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover The book shows very little use or wear but may have some minor imperfections, including light scuffs and or scratches. The book may contain dust and or dirt. (PERSONAL WRITING ON THE INSIDE FRONT COVER)
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