Full name: God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades

Author: Rodney Stark Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Religion, Non Fiction, Christianity Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780061582608 9780061582615 0061582603 0061582611

In God's Battalions, distinguished scholar Rodney Stark puts forth a controversial argument that the Crusades were a justified war waged against Muslim terror and aggression. Stark, the author of The Rise of Christianity, reviews the history of the seven major crusades from 1095-1291 in this fascinating work of religious revisionist history. Similar books: The Triumph of Christianity by Rodney Stark Discovering God by Rodney Stark The Victory of Reason by Rodney Stark Arab Historians of the Crusades by Francesco Gabrieli The Crusades through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf God's War by Christopher Tyerman The First Crusade by Steven Runciman The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge Worlds at War by Anthony Pagden The First Crusade by Thomas Asbridge How Jesus Became God by Bart D. Ehrman Constantine's Sword by James Carroll Fundamentalism and American Culture by George M. Marsden The Early Church by Henry Chadwick The Historical Figure of Jesus by E. P. Sanders From Sea to Shining Sea by Peter Marshall The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come by Norman Cohn Paul and Jesus by James D. Tabor The Bible by Karen Armstrong