Well-written, easy-to-read and understand "summary" of the crusades from the beginning of islam to the 5th Crusade. This is a good introductory book to give to people who know nothing about the crusades. Includes maps, notes section (mostly references) and a biography.
Fascinating, with a huge sweep - too huge for me to assess, really. It's about Christianity, but not. Better, it's a sociologist looking at societal effects of cultures affected by Christians. The theology is in the background, so it's hard to know how well Stark 'gets' theology. He says Christianit...
Rodney Stark's Discovering God is wide ranging work that attempts to explain the emergence of "revealed" and/or "moralistic" religions beginning in the Axial Age of the 6th and 7th centuries BC, when many of the great religious figures and movements arose. I really enjoyed his earlier book, On the R...
A piece of crap! Christians taking credit in history for things they had not done. Gee... What shaemless say christianity is responsible for the good stuff while not even mentioning how many scientists and doctors christians had murdered for not believe in the christian bullshit. I had enough of bul...
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