| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 173 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-160) and index. |
| Contents |
Extracting social scientific models from Mormon history -- Joseph Smith among the revelators -- Mormon networks of faith -- Rationality and Mormon sacrifice -- Modernization, secularization, and Mormon growth -- The basis of Mormon success -- The rise of a New World faith. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Will Mormonism be the next world faith, one that will rival Catholicism, Islam, and other major religions in terms of numbers and global appeal? This was the question Rodney Stark addressed in his much-discussed and much-debated article, ""The Rise of a New World Faith"" (1984), one of several essays on Mormonism included in this new collection. Examining the religion's growing appeal, Rodney Stark concluded that Mormons could number 267 million members by 2080. In what would become known as ""the Stark argument, "" Stark suggested that the Mormon Church offered contemporary sociologist. |
| Subject |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History.
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (OCoLC)fst00549691
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Latter Day Saint churches -- History.
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United States -- Church history.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
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Mormon Church. (OCoLC)fst01026221
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Church history. (OCoLC)fst01411629
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Neilson, Reid L., 1972-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stark, Rodney. Rise of Mormonism. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005 023113634X (DLC) 2005045464 (OCoLC)58831943 |
| ISBN |
023150991X (electronic bk.) |
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9780231509916 (electronic bk.) |
| Music No. |
EB00639450 Recorded Books |
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