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Women Pastors and God's Ordained Order (Paperback): Louis R Torres Women Pastors and God's Ordained Order (Paperback)
Louis R Torres
R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Rise of Mormonism (Hardcover): Rodney Stark The Rise of Mormonism (Hardcover)
Rodney Stark; Edited by Reid Neilson
R1,363 Discovery Miles 13 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Will Mormonism be the next world faith, one that will rival Catholicism, Islam, and other major religions in terms of numbers and global appeal? This was the question Rodney Stark addressed in his much-discussed and much-debated article, "The Rise of a New World Faith" (1984), one of several essays on Mormonism included in this new collection. Examining the religion's growing appeal, Rodney Stark concluded that Mormons could number 267 million members by 2080. In what would become known as "the Stark argument," Stark suggested that the Mormon Church offered contemporary sociologists and historians of religion an opportunity to observe a rare event: the birth of a new world religion.

In the years following that article, Stark has become one of the foremost scholars of Mormonism and the sociology of religion. This new work, the first to collect his influential writings on the Mormon Church, includes previously published essays, revised and rewritten for this volume. His work sheds light on both the growth of Mormonism and on how and why certain religions continue to grow while others fade away.

Stark examines the reasons behind the spread of Mormonism, exploring such factors as cultural continuity with the faiths from which it seeks converts, a volunteer missionary force, and birth rates. He explains why a demanding faith like Mormonism has such broad appeal in today's world and considers the importance of social networks in finding new converts. Stark's work also presents groundbreaking perspectives on larger issues in the study of religion, including the nature of revelation and the reasons for religious growth in an age of modernization and secularization.

Prayer, Poetry and Testimonies of Abba Father's Love (Paperback): Annette Kinglock-Murray Prayer, Poetry and Testimonies of Abba Father's Love (Paperback)
Annette Kinglock-Murray
R169 Discovery Miles 1 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Promise - My Witness (Paperback): Jeffrey R. Smith The Promise - My Witness (Paperback)
Jeffrey R. Smith
R1,135 R1,031 Discovery Miles 10 310 Save R104 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures (Paperback): Mary Baker Eddy Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures (Paperback)
Mary Baker Eddy
R797 Discovery Miles 7 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Our Why Is More Important than Our What (Paperback): David Rhea Our Why Is More Important than Our What (Paperback)
David Rhea
R463 R431 Discovery Miles 4 310 Save R32 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Loose Cannons - A Memoir of Mania and Mayhem in a Mormon Family (Paperback): Diana Cannon-Ragsdale Loose Cannons - A Memoir of Mania and Mayhem in a Mormon Family (Paperback)
Diana Cannon-Ragsdale
R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Last Called Mormon Colonization - Polygamy, Kinship, and Wealth in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin (Paperback): John Gary... The Last Called Mormon Colonization - Polygamy, Kinship, and Wealth in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin (Paperback)
John Gary Maxwell
R734 R651 Discovery Miles 6 510 Save R83 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

More than three hundred Latter-day Saint settlements were founded by LDS Church President Brigham Young. Colonization-often outside of Utah-continued under the next three LDS Church presidents, fueled by Utah's overpopulation relative to its arable, productive land. In this book, John Gary Maxwell takes a detailed look at the Bighorn Basin colonization of 1900-1901, placing it in the political and socioeconomic climate of the time while examining whether the move to this out-of-the-way frontier was motivated in part by the desire to practice polygamy unnoticed. The LDS Church officially abandoned polygamy in 1890, but evidence that the practice was still tolerated (if not officially sanctioned) by the church circulated widely, resulting in intense investigations by the U.S. Senate. In 1896 Abraham Owen Woodruff, a rising star in LDS leadership and an ardent believer in polygamy, was appointed to head the LDS Colonization Company. Maxwell explores whether under Woodruff's leadership the Bighorn Basin colony was intended as a means to insure the secret survival of polygamy and if his untimely death in 1904, together with the excommunication of two equally dedicated proponents of polygamy-Apostles John Whitaker Taylor and Matthias Foss Cowley-led to its collapse. Maxwell also details how Mormon settlers in Wyoming struggled with finance, irrigation, and farming and how they brought the same violence to indigenous peoples over land and other rights as did non-Mormons. The 1900 Bighorn Basin colonization provides an early twentieth-century example of a Mormon syndicate operating at the intersection of religious conformity, polygamy, nepotism, kinship, corporate business ventures, wealth, and high priesthood status. Maxwell offers evidence that although in many ways the Bighorn Basin colonization failed, Owen Woodruff's prophecy remains unbroken: "No year will ever pass, from now until the coming of the Savior, when children will not be born in plural marriage.

John the Baptist (Paperback): F.B. Meyer John the Baptist (Paperback)
F.B. Meyer
R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Step Out (Paperback): Keziah Clottey Step Out (Paperback)
Keziah Clottey
R493 R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Save R39 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Denver Snuffer Podcast Volume 1 - 2018 (Paperback): Denver C Snuffer The Denver Snuffer Podcast Volume 1 - 2018 (Paperback)
Denver C Snuffer; Edited by Restoration Archive
R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Workbook and Activities - Book of Mormon Volume 3: Come Follow Me FHE (Paperback): Come Follow Me Fhe Workbook and Activities - Book of Mormon Volume 3: Come Follow Me FHE (Paperback)
Come Follow Me Fhe
R1,163 Discovery Miles 11 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Christianity And Modern Thought (Paperback): Henry Whitney Bellows, James Freeman Clarke, et al Christianity And Modern Thought (Paperback)
Henry Whitney Bellows, James Freeman Clarke, et al
R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Book of Jasher (Paperback): J. Asher Book of Jasher (Paperback)
J. Asher
R547 R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Joseph Smith - The Prophet-Teacher (Paperback): Elder B. H Roberts Joseph Smith - The Prophet-Teacher (Paperback)
Elder B. H Roberts
R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Our Father Who Art In Heaven - Volume One Discover the Love of God Beyond Human Senses (Paperback): K C Uche Our Father Who Art In Heaven - Volume One Discover the Love of God Beyond Human Senses (Paperback)
K C Uche
R331 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R25 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Joseph Smith's Plural Wives, Volume 1 - Helen Mar Kimball (Paperback): L Hannah Stoddard, James F Stoddard Joseph Smith's Plural Wives, Volume 1 - Helen Mar Kimball (Paperback)
L Hannah Stoddard, James F Stoddard
R689 R616 Discovery Miles 6 160 Save R73 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Christianity and Positivism - A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics (Paperback): James McCosh Christianity and Positivism - A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics (Paperback)
James McCosh
R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Drama of a Rural Community's Life Cycle (Paperback): S. Roy Kaufman The Drama of a Rural Community's Life Cycle (Paperback)
S. Roy Kaufman
R820 R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Save R106 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Touching Stories of My Life in Journey to Christian Holiness and Hands- on Patient Care in a Weeping Healthcare - The Brain of... Touching Stories of My Life in Journey to Christian Holiness and Hands- on Patient Care in a Weeping Healthcare - The Brain of Man of God and the Hand of Man of God Reflection of a Coptic Christian Neurosurgeon (Paperback)
Ramsis F Ghaly Facs
R1,424 Discovery Miles 14 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby - Maine's Godfather of New Thought (Paperback): Igor I. Sikorsky, Vincent J Tanner Phineas Parkhurst Quimby - Maine's Godfather of New Thought (Paperback)
Igor I. Sikorsky, Vincent J Tanner
R382 R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Save R28 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Book of Mormon in Summary - A valuable resource for the study of The Book of Mormon (Paperback): Richard G. Lamb The Book of Mormon in Summary - A valuable resource for the study of The Book of Mormon (Paperback)
Richard G. Lamb
R854 R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Save R60 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
True Revival For the Last Day Events - (True Revival for The Adventist Home, Revival Message to Young People and through... True Revival For the Last Day Events - (True Revival for The Adventist Home, Revival Message to Young People and through Letters to Young Lovers, True Revival to Follow The Steps to Christ and be better on Country Living) (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Ellen G White
R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Education of the Heart - Learning that Leads to God - Second Edition (Paperback): Russell T Osguthorpe The Education of the Heart - Learning that Leads to God - Second Edition (Paperback)
Russell T Osguthorpe
R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Divine Appointments (Paperback): Charlie Deitrick Divine Appointments (Paperback)
Charlie Deitrick
R591 Discovery Miles 5 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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