What is a “distinguished bigot”? And how have such people influenced the way in which the Catholic Church is understood and perceived by many Americans today?ĭr.
Olson, editor of Catholic World Report.ĬWR: You begin the book by first noting your upbringing as an American Protestant and then discussing “distinguished bigots”. Stark recently responded by e-mail to some questions from Carl E. His most recent book is Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History (Templeton Press, 2016), which addresses ten prevalent myths about Church history. Raised as a Lutheran, he has identified himself as an agnostic but has, more recently, called himself an “independent Christian”. Stark is past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and he has won a number of national and international awards for distinguished scholarship. He later was Professor of Sociology and of Comparative Religion at the University of Washington he has been at Baylor University since 2004. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he held appointments as a research sociologist at the Survey Research Center and at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. After beginning as a newspaper reporter and spending time in the Army, Stark received his Ph.D. Rodney Stark has written nearly 40 books on a wide range of topics, incuding a number of recent books on the history of Christianity, monotheism, Christianity in China, and the roots of modernity.
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