| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 173 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-160) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fast |
| Subject |
Latter Day Saint churches -- 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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Latter Day Saint churches
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Church history.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139926
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Neilson, Reid Larkin
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| LC no. |
2005045464 |
| ISBN |
023150991X |
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9780231509916 |
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