God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades - Rilegato

Stark, Rodney

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ISBN 10: 0061582611 ISBN 13: 9780061582615

Casa editrice: Harperone, 2010

Riassunto

The author of For the Glory of God puts forth a controversial argument that the Crusades were a justified war against Muslim terror and aggression, in a book that reviews the history of the seven major crusades from 1095 to 1291. 35,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

GOD'S BATTALIONS launches a frontal assault on the comfortable myths that scholars have popularized about the crusades. The results are startling. His greatest achievement is to make us see the crusaders on their own terms. --Philip Jenkins, author of The Lost History of Christianity

An excitingly readable distillation of the new, revisionist Crusades historiography. --Booklist (starred review)

At last, a convincing, balanced book on the Crusades, far from the recent unsophisticated and ideological diatribes against them as "A Bad Thing." Rodney Stark demonstrates that the Crusades were neither unprovoked nor colonialist. Here is yet another rich and readable book from this thoughtful and distinguished author. --Jeffrey Burton Russell, author of A History of Heaven and Paradise Mislaid

L'autore:

Rodney Stark grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota, and began his career as a newspaper reporter. Following a tour of duty in the U.S. Army, he received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where he held appointments as a research sociologist at the Survey Research Center and at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. He left Berkeley to become Professor of Sociology and of Comparative Religion at the University of Washington. In 2004 he joined the faculty of Baylor University. He has published 30 books and more than 140 scholarly articles on subjects as diverse as prejudice, crime, suicide, and city life in ancient Rome. However, the greater part of his work has been on religion. He is past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and of the Association for the Sociology of Religion. He also has won a number of national and international awards for distinguished scholarship. Many of his books and articles have been translated and published in foreign languages, including Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Slovene, and Turkish.

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• Editore: Harperone
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061582611
• ISBN 13: 9780061582615
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 276