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One True God : Historical Consequences of Monotheism 🔍
Rodney Stark Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2018
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Western history would be unrecognizable had it not been for people who believed in One True God. There would have been wars, but no religious wars. There would have been moral codes, but no Commandments. Had the Jews been polytheists, they would today be only another barely remembered people, less important, but just as extinct as the Babylonians. Had Christians presented Jesus to the Greco-Roman world as ''another'' God, their faith would long since have gone the way of Mithraism. And surely Islam would never have made it out of the desert had Muhammad not removed Allah from the context of Arab paganism and proclaimed him as the only God.
The three great monotheisms changed everything. With his customary clarity and vigor, Rodney Stark explains how and why monotheism has such immense power both to unite and to divide. Why and how did Jews, Christians, and Muslims missionize, and when and why did their efforts falter? Why did both Christianity and Islam suddenly become less tolerant of Jews late in the eleventh century, prompting outbursts of mass murder? Why were the Jewish massacres by Christians concentrated in the cities along the Rhine River, and why did the pogroms by Muslims take place mainly in Granada? How could the Jews persist so long as a minority faith, able to withstand intense pressures to convert? Why did they sometimes assimilate? In the final chapter, Stark also examines the American experience to show that it is possible for committed monotheists to sustain norms of civility toward one another.
A sweeping social history of religion, __One True God__ shows how the great monotheisms shaped the past and created the modern world.
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Stark, Rodney
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Princeton University, Department of Art & Archaeology
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1st paperback print, Princeton, N.J, 2003, ©2001
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United States, United States of America
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New Ed edition, October 1, 2001
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Princeton, NJ, 2018
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2001 dec 31
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2018 jun 05
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US, 2003
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2, 2018
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<p><p>i Recommend This Book With Uncommon Enthusiasm. It Will Command Great Attention And Will Be Debated For Many Years. More Than That, It Has The Potential Of Laying New Foundations For The Whole Study Of Religion. It Will Last.--jeffrey Burton Russell, Author Of </i>a History Of Heaven</i><p>this Is A Powerful Book That Covers An Enormous Amount Of Material And Puts It Within A Framework That Is Elegant, Simple, And Easy To Follow. Stark Is In The First-instance A Great Writer, And This Book Shows It. It Is A Major Contribution To The Sociology Of Religion And Is, Perhaps, The First Work Since The Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Capitalism To Make A Forceful Argument Regarding The Consequences Of Religious Beliefs.--john Simpson, University Of Toronto<p></p> <h3>publishers Weekly</h3> <p>long Established As A Leading Sociologist Of American Religion, Stark Has In Recent Years Extended His Methodology Into Increasingly Speculative Territory. Here He Follows Up His Inquiry Into The Origins Of Christianity With An Even More Ambitious Project: A Grand Theory Of The Social And Political Effects Of Monotheism In Every Corner Of The Globe Since The Time Of The Pharaoh Akhenaten. None Of Stark's Claims Is Particularly Novel Or Subtle, And Many Of Them Seem Just Plain Wrong. People, He Asserts, Are More Satisfied With Rational, Dependable, Authoritative Gods Than With Pantheons Of Mercurial Deities; Therefore, Buddhism Died Out In India Because It Was Too Intellectual And Did Not Offer A Satisfying Divinity (unlike Hinduism, Which Stark Declares Is Really Monotheistic, Despite Much Evidence To The Contrary). Moreover, Members Of Monotheistic Faiths Send Out Missionaries Because They Think Their God Is True, And All Others False, A Presumption That Has On Occasion Led To Violence; Jews Have Resisted Conversion Over The Millennia Because They Have Found Solidarity In Their Common Oppression And Strength In Their Monotheism; And Pluralism Results When Members Of Competing Monotheistic Faiths Decide To Set Aside Their Differences To Maintain Public Civility. As An Armchair Historian, Stark Is Unconvincing, Given To Sweeping Generalizations And Glib Overstatements. As An Armchair Ethnographer, He Is Often Startlingly Na?ve. His Claim, For Example, That Rituals Are Infrequent In Polytheistic Cultures Is Based On A Poor Understanding Of Ritual. As Grand Theories Go, This Is Shallow Stuff. (oct.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.</p>
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"Western history would be unrecognizable had it not been for people who believed in One True God. There would have been wars, but no religious wars. There would have been moral codes, but no Commandments. Had the Jews been polytheists, they would today be only another barely remembered people, less important, but just as extinct as the Babylonians. Had Christians presented Jesus to the Greco-Roman world as "another" God, their faith would long since have gone the way of Mithraism.
And surely Islam would never have made it out of the desert had Muhammad not removed Allah from the context of Arab paganism and proclaimed him as the only God.".
"The three great monotheisms changed everything. Rodney Stark explains how and why monotheism has such immense power both to unite and to divide. Why and how did Jews, Christians, and Muslims missionize, and when and why did their efforts falter? Why did both Christianity and Islam suddenly become less tolerant of Jews late in the eleventh century, prompting outbursts of mass murder?
Why were the Jewish massacres by Christians concentrated in the cities along the Rhine River, and why did the pogroms by Muslims take place mainly in Granada? How could the Jews persist so long as a minority faith, able to withstand intense pressures to convert? Why did they sometimes assimilate? In the final chapter, Stark also exmaines the American experience to show that it is possible for committed monotheists to sustain norms of civility toward one another.".
"A sweeping social history of religion, One True God shows how the great monotheisms shaped the past and created the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.
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"Western history would be unrecognizable had it not been for people who believed in One True God. There would have been wars, but no religious wars. There would have been moral codes, but no Commandments. Had the Jews been polytheists, they would today be only another barely remembered people, less important, but just as extinct as the Babylonians. Had Christians presented Jesus to the Greco-Roman world as "another" God, their faith would long since have gone the way of Mithraism. And surely Islam would never have made it out of the desert had Muhammad not removed Allah from the context of Arab paganism and proclaimed him as the only God." "The three great monotheisms changed everything. Rodney Stark explains how and why monotheism has such immense power both to unite and to divide. Why and how did Jews, Christians, and Muslims missionize, and when and why did their efforts falter? Why did both Christianity and Islam suddenly become less tolerant of Jews late in the eleventh century, prompting outbursts of mass murder? Why were the Jewish massacres by Christians concentrated in the cities along the Rhine River, and why did the pogroms by Muslims take place mainly in Granada? How could the Jews persist so long as a minority faith, able to withstand intense pressures to convert? Why did they sometimes assimilate? In the final chapter, Stark also examines the American experience to show that it is possible for committed monotheists to sustain norms of civility toward one another." "A sweeping social history of religion, One True God shows how the great monotheisms shaped the past and created the modern world."--Jacket
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An examination of monotheism and the world-shaping impact of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam discusses major events in their histories, considering such topics as each religion's intolerance of the others, their resistances and compromises, and the comparatively tolerant model presented by American monotheists.
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