The Rise of Mormonism
Encyclopedia
The Rise of Mormonism (2005) is a book which was written by the sociologist of religions Rodney Stark
. It was reviewed in Journal of Mormon History.
Rodney Stark
Rodney Stark is an American sociologist of religion. He grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota in a Lutheran family. He spent time in the U.S. Army and worked as a journalist before pursuing graduate studies at The University of California, Berkeley...
. It was reviewed in Journal of Mormon History.
Contents
- Preface by Rodney Stark
- Introduction by Reid L. Neilson
- 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
- Bibliography
- Further Acknowledgments
- Index
External links
- The Rise of Mormonism at the publisher's site