For the Glory of God - How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery Stark Rodney Paperback
For the Glory of God - How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery Stark Rodney Paperback Rodney Stark's provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or…
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For the Glory of God - How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery Stark Rodney Paperback
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. 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. 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.
Endemic in such organizations are pressures to maintain religious intensity,