Stark, Rodney.

The rise of Christianity : how the obscure, marginal Jesus movement became the dominant religious force in the Western world in a few centuries / [manuscript] : by Rodney Stark. - 1st HarperCollins pbk. ed. - [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, c1997. - xiv, 246 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-242) and index.

9780060677015 (pbk.) : Đ12.00

97005535


Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christian sociology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

BR166 / .S75 1997

306.6/701