Stark gets right to the events of greatest interest, often turning them on their heads: He argues that Constantine's conversion did the Church a great deal of harm, for example, and that the majority of converts to early Christianity were women. Now, for the first time, he distills his research to just the most important and interesting episodes-the seminal moments in the story that, he now believes, demand new perspectives. Indeed, after thirty highly regarded books on the matter, he has created a true master course in Christian history. "Religious historian and sociologist Rodney Stark has spent his career engaging with that very question.
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