Dimensions
208 x 127 x 17mm
How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Countries
This book is for anyone who has puzzled over Christianity's rise to dominance in the Roman Empire. Here is theoretical brashness combined with disarming common sense, a capacious curiosity, and a most uncommon ability to tell a complicated story in simple prose. It uses contemporary social-scientific data about why people join new religious movements and how religions recruit members to investigate the formative history of Christianity.
