The Triumph of Faith, Rodney Stark
The Triumph of Faith, Rodney Stark
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The Triumph of Faith
Why the World Is More Religious than Ever

Author: Rodney Stark

Narrator: David Drummond

Unabridged: 6 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/16/2015

Synopsis



Everybody seems to take it for granted that the world is getting more secular—that faith is doomed by modernity. Scientists, secularists, and atheists applaud the change; religious believers lament it. But here's the thing: they're all wrong, and acclaimed author Rodney Stark has the numbers to prove it.

The Triumph of Faith explodes the myth that people around the world are abandoning religion. In this lively, eye-opening book, Stark marshals an unprecedented body of data—surveys of more than a million people in 163 nations—to paint the full picture that both scholars and popular commentators have missed. He examines why this astonishing growth of religion is happening and what it means for our future.

About Rodney Stark

Rodney Stark is the award-winning author of How the West Won, The Victory of Reason, The Rise of Christianity, God's Battalions, and many other books. He serves as Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University, where he is codirector of the Institute for Studies of Religion. The recipient of several awards for distinguished scholarship, he is past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and of the Association for the Sociology of Religion.

Reviews

Goodreads review by George P.

Rodney Stark, The Triumph of Faith: Why the World Is More Religious Than Ever (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2015). Hardcover|Kindle Fifty years ago, Anthony F. C. Wallace expressed the belief of many Western intellectuals when he wrote, “Belief in supernatural powers is doomed to die out all......more

Goodreads review by Etienne

Je regrette de ne pas avoir lu ce livre plus tôt, c'est une des lectures les plus encourageantes et les plus importante de cette année. Rodney Stark, sociologue spécialiste des religions montre région par région à quel point la thèse de la sécularisation est fausse, et que dans l'ensemble le monde e......more

Goodreads review by Darin Stewart

The title of Rodney Stark's latest analysis of global religious dynamics, "The Triumph of Faith: Why the World is More Religious than Ever" is accurate enough, but is also slightly disingenuous. A more honest title would be "The Triumph of Conservative, Evangelical Christianity." The key takeaways o......more

Goodreads review by Nathan

There are a great many books that are written that lament the seeming hold of ethical monotheism in general and Christianity in particular on the West or in the world at large [1].  What this book does is seek to reframe the discussion of faith by discussing the fact that the world is increasingly r......more

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