Reformation Myths Stark Rodney
Reformation Myths Stark Rodney What has the Reformation ever done for us? 'Rodney Stark takes no prisoners as he charges through five hundred years of history, upsetting apple carts left and right. A…
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Reformation Myths Stark Rodney
What has the Reformation ever done for us? 'Rodney Stark takes no prisoners as he charges through five hundred years of history, upsetting apple carts left and right. A lot less than you might think, as Rodney Stark shows in this enlightening and entertaining antidote to recent books about the rise of Protestantism and its legacy.
In future, anyone who makes sweeping claims about the benefits of Protestantism ought to check their assumptions against Stark's research first.' Clifford Longley, author and journalist 'Stark brings the insights of a distinguished sociologist of religion to bear on a range of inherited assumptions about the impact of the Reformation . . . Almost everything you thought you knew about the Reformation turns out to be a false narrative. . . The result makes for salutary reading in this year of commemoration and (not always justified) celebration.' Peter Marshall,