Rodney Stark, a sociologist by training, has written a book that should end much of the Christian-bashing occuring in academia.

For the first time in 70 years, a new translation of Max Weber's classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism --one of the seminal works in sociology-- published in September 2001.

In this volume of The New Church's Teaching Series, Harold T. Lewis surveys the teachings and witness of Anglicanism and the Episcopal Church concerning the Christian vision of a righteous social order, including the challenges of the new ...

Meeks analyzes the letters of Paul to see what kind of people joined the Christian groups in the urban centers and what it was like to be a Christian then.

Whether people are searching for the right Christian church for themselves or seeking to understand the differences between denominations, this book is a fascinating look at where Christianity is right now.

In this groundbreaking work, the concensus that each of the Gospels was written for a specific audience is challenged by the thesis that they were written for general circulation with the intention that they should circulate around all the ...

Christel Lane has written the first sociological study of religion in a communist and militantly atheist society.

This book is novel in its questioning of the adequacy of interpreting Paul from the perspective of the Reformation and in its application of sociological methods to the New Testament.