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argues that, since spiritual rewards associated with religion are inherently risky, rational choice is the only and inherent rea ...

crisis, Christianity offered extensive care of the poor and various other imper- iled people. Third, he assumes a clear distinct ...

However, no uniquely Christian character emerged for at least the first six hundred years, except that both Pagan and early Chri ...

The poor Christian wretches have convinced themselves, first and foremost, that that they are going to be immortal and live for ...

because it made them rare by comparison. A simple case of supply and demand. The religious marketplace would select Christianity ...

when threatened with death and even when death was delivered. For exam- ple, as late as the Byzantine emperor Justinian (527–565 ...

Empire, celebrations such as the Maiouma (month-long nude bathing) in spring to celebrate the return of warm weather continued u ...

Beliefs likewise prove nothing. Indeed, notions of heaven, for example, the ultimate reward in Christianity, derived from variou ...

CE when Constantine created a Christian monopoly based on the Orthodox view, and later emperors actively suppressed a free relig ...

ter for several hundred years, and thus did not constitute a special com- modity in a crowded marketplace of innumerable and und ...

Clearly, this did not happen in Christian Byzantium (Norwich 1989), the direct descendent of Christian Rome – they called themse ...

used Christianity like a bludgeon against political opponents, but not against opponents of Christianity specifically; they left ...

they represented was certainly the domain of popular participation in mass festivals (Ryan 1999). Although we do not know exactl ...

Class and Culture Convergence To understand the rise of Christianity, we must understand two concepts that are much more complex ...

(without values that explain the meaning of life),^2 which produces diverse and extensive social problems. For example, Native-A ...

related hierarchy, religion places the Truth of existence beyond the grasp of real people, and into the hands of a supreme and u ...

not condemn all religion simply for being religious. For Marx, religion becomes oppressive to the extent it presents a universal ...

Final Thoughts In conclusion, rational-choice theory argues a simplistic version of instru- mental-rationality. History, on the ...

Apologyby Socrates or the Vedic Upanishadsto see Christian thinking – sev- eral hundred years before Christ. The task for schola ...

Bonnie Wright and Anne Warfield Rawls Speaking in Tongues: A Dialectic of Faith and Practice We report on a six year ethnographi ...