The rise of Christianity : how the obscure, marginal Jesus movement became the dominant religious force in the Western world in a few centuries /

Stark, Rodney.

The rise of Christianity : how the obscure, marginal Jesus movement became the dominant religious force in the Western world in a few centuries / Rodney Stark. - 1st HarperCollins pbk. ed. - [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, 1997. - xiv, 246 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-242) and index.

0060677015 (pbk.)

97005535


Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christian sociology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

BR 166 / .S75 1997

306.6/701