In The Rise of Christianity, Rodney Stark argues that Christianity triumphed over paganism chiefly because it improved the lives of its adherents in various ways.

* Wigger, John H. ( 1998 ) Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-510452-8 – p. ix & 269 focus on 1770 – 1910

* Wigger, John H. Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America, ( 1998 ) 269pp ; focus on 1770-1910

Moody Smith, D. " Review: The Rise of Christianity: A Review.

* Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America, 1770-1820 ( Oxford University Press, 1998 ) by John H. Wigger ( ISBN 0-195-10452-8 )

* Brown, Peter ; Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity ; University of Chicago Press ; 1982

* Wigger, John H. Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America.

* Hindu View of Christianity and Islam ( 1993, contains also as an appendix Swarup's foreword to D. S. Margoliouth's Mohammed and the Rise of Islam ( 1985, original in 1905 ) and to William Muir's The Life of Mahomet ( 1992, original in 1894 )

In The Rise and Fall of Five Iron Frenzy, Scott Kerr explained that he chose to leave the band in 1998 due to his renunciation of Christianity.

* The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity ( 1981 ) – ISBN 0-226-07622-9

Not only is this book prominently featured within the storyline of Hidden Empire by Orson Scott Card, according to the book's afterword, The Rise of Christianity actually inspired the book's plot.

* Rise of Christianity during the Fall of Rome

As a theological author, Barnes's book The Rise of Christianity ( 1947 ) aroused such fierce opposition and criticism from more orthodox members of the Church that it was strongly suggested he should renounce his episcopal office, which Barnes refused to do.

* Julian the Apostate and the Rise of Christianity, London: Watts & Co. Ltd, 1937

* Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity.

released the first part of The Neon God, subtitled The Rise, a conceptual album about an abused and orphaned boy who finds that he has the ability to read and manipulate people.

Cockburn's most recent book is Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy ( subtitled An American Disaster in the UK edition ).

The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis.

In his 2004 BBC documentary film series, The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, the journalist Adam Curtis argues that politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society.

British television series such as The Good Life, Butterflies and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin have depicted suburbia as well-manicured but relentlessly boring, and its residents as either overly conforming or prone to going stir crazy.

Sales were not high enough to dent the charts in either country at the time, however it made # 26 in the UK and # 105 in the US following its rerelease on 25 November 1972, in the wake of Bowie's commercial breakthrough The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

The oceanic crust is moving away from the East Pacific Rise to either side at a rate of 70mm / year.

" Over the years ," said Segato, " many political parties have either used or wanted to use the song ' Rise Up ' for their campaign.

Although the concept has existed for centuries, the term meritocracy was first coined by British politician and sociologist, Michael Young in his 1958 satirical essay, " The Rise of the Meritocracy ", which pictured the United Kingdom under the rule of a government favoring intelligence and aptitude ( merit ) above all.

The renowned sociologist Manuel Castells, in his trilogy on The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture ( the first volume of which, The Rise of the Network Society, appeared in 1996 ), reinterpreted the processes by which capitalism invests in certain regions of the globe, while divesting from others, using the new paradigm of " informational networks ".

In 1958 the sociologist Michael Young published a book entitled The Rise of the Meritocracy.

His unfinished history Athens: Its Rise and Fall was published posthumously.

* Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Videogames, by Leonard Herman, a history of video games

McNeill wrote The Rise of the West ( 1965 ) to improve upon Toynbee by showing how the separate civilizations of Eurasia interacted from the very beginning of their history, borrowing critical skills from one another, and thus precipitating still further change as adjustment between traditional old and borrowed new knowledge and practice became necessary.

A definitive history of the network, The Weather Channel: The Improbable Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, was published by Harvard Business Press in May 2002, on TWC's 20th anniversary.

She was inspired by her reading of John L. Motley's lengthy, multi-volume history works: The Rise of the Dutch Republic, and The History of the United Netherlands.

He is the author of seventeen books on military history and strategy, of which Command in War ( 1985 ), Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton ( 1977, 2nd edition 2004 ), The Transformation of War ( 1991 ), The Sword and the Olive ( 1998 ) and The Rise and Decline of the State ( 1999 ) are among the best known.

In August 2009, WWE released a DVD set chronicling the history of WCW called The Rise and Fall of WCW.

His Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding ( 1957 ) is an important work in the history of the genre.

* The Rise of Militant-the official history

It was also around this time that Reid's lifelong passion for history was kindled when his girlfriend ( and later wife ), Cathie McGowan, bought him a copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer.

Two learned surveys of certain aspects of history followed: A History of the Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe ( 2 vols., 1865 ), and A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne ( 2 vols., 1869 ).

" Rise, O Voices of Rhodesia " remained in official usage for the rest of Rhodesia's history, as well as between June and December 1979, when Rhodesia was reconstituted as Zimbabwe Rhodesia, a black-ruled version of the same country, which also failed to achieve legitimacy in the eyes of Britain and the UN.

* The Rise and Fall of Qing Dynasty, a long-running Hong Kong television series about the history of the Qing Dynasty.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a non-fiction book by William L. Shirer chronicling the general history of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a comprehensive historical interpretation of the Nazi era, positing that German history logically proceeded from Martin Luther to Adolf Hitler ; that Hitler ’ s ascension to power was an expression of German national character, not of totalitarianism as an ideology that was internationally fashionable in the 1930s.

Forty years later, historian Richard J. Evans, author of The Third Reich Trilogy ( 2003 to 2008 ), conceded that Rise and Fall is a " readable general history of Nazi Germany " and that " there are good reasons for success.

Secret history is sometimes used in a long-running science fiction or fantasy universe to preserve continuity with the present by reconciling paranormal, anachronistic, or otherwise notable but unrecorded events with what actually happened in known history ; for instance, in the Star Trek universe, Greg Cox's novels The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh cast the devastating Eugenics Wars of the 1990s ( still well into the future when first mentioned in an episode from 1967 ) as shadow wars most people never knew about, in which such real-life events from that era as the Smiling Buddha nuclear test, the Yugoslav Wars, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots were all part of one wider conflict.

Rise of Nations features 18 civilizations, playable through 8 ages of world history.

Each of the 18 civilizations in Rise of Nations has its own set of between four and eight unique units spread throughout the ages, if at the age of play the faction did not exist in history the faction uses default units that were used in that time.

Further novels in the series include The Rise and Fall of a Dragon King, a novel exploring the topic of genocide, a central theme in the ancient history of Athas, the world on which the Dark Sun setting takes place.

However, Kozul-Wright states in his book The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism that " ineluctability of market forces " neo-liberals and conservative politicians tend to stress, and their confidence on a chosen policy, rest on a " mixture of implicit and hidden assumptions, myths about the history of their own countries ' economic development, and special interests camouflaged in their rhetoric of general good ".

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