![]() ![]() It should in turn be given to and read by students and professors everywhere, whatever their beliefs. For many years, the Pulitzer Prize nominee was professor of sociology and. Bearing False Witness is one more gift to history from Rodney Stark. Rodney Stark is one of the leading authorities on the sociology of religion. “A majestically argued, gorgeously written, and essential book by one of the truly indispensable minds of our time. His aim was to honor the truth, so now it remains for historians to look again, face his challenges, and come refreshed to their own verdicts.” -Michael Novak, winner of the Templeton Prize (1994), author of The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism Doesnt Stark know that Catholicism was the state-sanctioned religion of. Rodney Stark has done justice to neglected historical truth, and I am deeply grateful for his steady toughmindedness. In The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark attempts to carry this revision forward. ![]() ![]() ![]() Little did I imagine that this expected dispassionate historian would be so deeply informed, lucid, thorough, and blunt. Still I have always trusted that some unbiased non-Catholic scholar would one day look at the evidence (even its simple logic) again. “Growing up Catholic in the United States is to hear a constant stream of stuff that, one’s experience shows, is just not true. ![]()
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