Rodney Stark's One True Vision

Retrograde Historiography and the Academic Study of Religion

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4373386
AutoresMichael P Carroll (0000-0002-7027-4985, Wilfrid Laurier University, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume42
Fascículo1
Páginas105-125
Data de publicação2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0048721x.2011.640358
OpenAlexW2016451478
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas39

Although Rodney Stark is best known for his work on religious economies, he has recently turned his attention to the social effects of monotheism. If we look carefully on the theoretical trajectory evident in this recent work, what we find is a social-evolutionary approach to religion that was prevalent in the 19th century, but long ago assumed by most academics to be discredited. Furthermore, as becomes increasingly evident going through this series, the particular social-evolutionary sequence that Stark constructs has been shaped by a vision of Protestant triumphalism, and a privileging of evangelical Protestantism, that also belongs to an earlier time. While it would easy to ignore Stark's work (and the last two books in this series do seem to have been ignored in academic circles), there are reasons (which include the popular appeal of his work and his treatment of Islam) for taking his work seriously

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