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.