Download or read book The Rise of Christianity written by Rodney Stark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodney Stark, a sociologist by training, has written a book that should end much of the Christian-bashing occuring in academia. Stark demonstrates that Christianity became popular very quickly because it offered its adherents a better faith than competing religions and treated those believers better both physically and spiritually.