A WISE INVESTMENT The Rise of Christianity A Sociologist Reconsiders History Rodney Stark Princeton University Press, $24.95,246 pp. Carl L. Bankston III At the end of the fourth century,...
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CLASSY HISTORY Byzantium The Decline and Fall John Julius Norwich Alfred A Knopf, $35, 488 pp. Carl L. Bankston III In the days before social history and statistical "cliome-trics," the word...
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HOW WE GOT HELL THE FORMATION OF HELL Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds Alan E. Bernstein Cornell University Press, $32.95, 391 pp. THE DEVIL IN THE NEW WORLD The...
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Getting the past right—almost Individual humans, out of fashion with historians for the past few decades, have recently begun to make a comeback. Armed with the quantitative techniques of...
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