God's Battalions
The Case for the Crusades
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Bob Souer
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Rodney Stark
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A respected and controversial scholar argues that the Crusades were a justified war waged against Muslim terror and aggression
This book takes on the current vogue in liberal thinking to argue that, in fact, the Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or converts. The Crusaders were not barbarians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. They sincerely believed that they served in God’s Battalions.
In the wake of many recent books justifying Muslim holy wars by criticizing the historic use of violence by Christians, Stark presents the other side of the story. Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, Stark argues the facts and figures about why and how Christianity attempted to secure the Holy Lands and protect the safety of Christian pilgrims.
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- Narrado por: Graham Mack
- Duración: 16 h y 21 m
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In the 1880s, control over northeastern Africa was a political minefield into which Prime Minister Gladstone did not want to step—until his emissary Charles Gordon was besieged in Khartoum, and the city became the focal point for war. It was the height of European colonialism. Injustices were administered, bloody battles fought, and civilians caught in the crossfire. Among the British officers were figures who would later adopt starring roles in the First World War, such as Egyptian Army sapper Captain Herbert Kitchener.
De: Peter Hart
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The Victory of Reason
- How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
- De: Rodney Stark
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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In The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark advances a revolutionary, controversial, and long overdue idea: that Christianity and its related institutions are, in fact, directly responsible for the most significant intellectual, political, scientific, and economic breakthroughs of the past millennium. In Stark's view, what has propelled the West is not the tension between secular and non-secular society, nor the pitting of science and the humanities against religious belief. Christian theology, Stark asserts, is the very font of reason.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely incredible history book!
- De Daniel en 01-02-20
De: Rodney Stark
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How the West Won
- The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
- De: Rodney Stark
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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Modernity developed only in the West - in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and soap. The question is, why? Unfortunately, that question has become so politically incorrect that most scholars avoid it. But acclaimed author Rodney Stark provides the answers in this sweeping new look at Western civilization.
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4 out of 5 stars
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We all have a bias
- De Adam Shields en 04-21-15
De: Rodney Stark
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Medicine River
- A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
- De: Mary Annette Pember
- Narrado por: Erin Tripp
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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A sweeping and deeply personal account of Native American boarding schools in the United States, and the legacy of abuse wrought by them in an attempt to destroy Native culture and life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Medicine River really brought a lot of feelings to the surface from my own experience with my family.🪶💔🥀
- De Nokomii en 05-16-25
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The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
- Muslims, Christians, and Jews Under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain
- De: Dario Fernandez Morera
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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Scholars, journalists, and politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain - "al-Andalus" - as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: It is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern University scholar Darío Fernández-Morera tells the full story of Islamic Spain. As professors, politicians, and pundits continue to celebrate Islamic Spain for its "multiculturalism" and "diversity", Fernández-Morera sets the record straight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I should have known better all along.
- De David en 07-31-16
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Journeys of the Mind
- A Life in History
- De: Peter Brown
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 30 h y 20 m
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The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and pathbreaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the "neglected half-millennium" now known as late antiquity was crucial to the development of modern Europe and the Middle East. In Journeys of the Mind, Brown recounts his life and work, describing his efforts to recapture the spirit of an age.
De: Peter Brown
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Lower than the Angels
- A History of Sex and Christianity
- De: Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Narrado por: Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Duración: 25 h y 37 m
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Few matters produce more public interest and public anxiety than sex and religion. Much of the political contention and division in societies across the world centres on sexual topics, and one-third of the global population is Christian in background or outlook. The issue goes to the heart of present-day religion.
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Cities of God
- The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome
- De: Rodney Stark
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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How did the preaching of a peasant carpenter from Galilee spark a movement that would grow to include over two billion followers? Who listened to this "good news," and who ignored it? Where did Christianity spread, and how? Based on quantitative data and the latest scholarship, preeminent scholar and journalist Rodney Stark presents new and startling information about the rise of the early church, overturning many prevailing views of how Christianity grew through time to become the largest religion in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A coherent, compelling, and challenging account
- De Paul Adams en 06-08-20
De: Rodney Stark