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54
. Gamble 1995, 23.

55
. Gamble 1995, 25.

56
. Gamble 1995, 27.

57
. Millard 2000, 223–24.

58
. Stanton 2004, 189.

59
. Bauckham 2006, 288.

60
. Evans 2001.

61
. Evans 2001.

62
. Gager 1975; Meeks 1983; Theissen 1978; 1982.

63
. Lester 1993, 867

64
. Quoted in Burkert 1985, 297.

65
. Costen 1997; Lambert 1992; 1998; Russell 1965; Stark 2003.

66
. Costen 1997, 70.

67
. Lambert 1992.

68
. Tracy 1999.

69
. Ladurie 1974.

70
. Stark 2004.

71
. Niebuhr 1929.

72
. Lang 1983.

73
. Baumgarten 1997.

74
. Kripal 2007.

75
. Maslow 1971.

76
. Fogel 2000, 2.

77
. McAdam 1988; Sherkat and Blocker 1994.

78
. Kent 2001.

79
. Barrow 1980; MacKenzie and MacKenzie 1977; Nelson 1969.

80
. Stark and Bainbridge 1996, chap. 9.

81
. Stark 2003; 2004, chap. 3; Stark and Finke 2000.

82
. Dickens 1991, 128.

83
. Stark 2007a; 2003.

84
. Marx [1844] 1964, 42.

Chapter 6: Misery and Mercy

 

1
. The phrase was coined by the Swedish-American Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizer Joe Hill (Joel Hägglund) in his song “The Preacher and the Slave,” 1911.

2
. Burn 1953.

3
. Meeks 1983.

4
. Harnack 1905; Stark 2006.

5
. Our enormous debt to Tertius Chandler, Gerald Fox, and Josiah Cox Russell for reconstructing historical population data is acknowledged far too seldom.

6
. Stark 2009.

7
. Josephus,
Jewish War
3:2; Broshi 2001, 110; Schnabel 2004, 182.

8
. Broshi 2001, 110.

9
. Chandler 1987, 463.

10
. See Africa 1971, 4n9.

11
. Stambaugh 1988.

12
. Stark 1996, 150.

13
. Carcopino 1940, 45–46.

14
. Finley 1977.

15
. Carcopino 1940, 33.

16
. Carcopino 1940, 31–32.

17
. Africa 1971, 4.

18
. Stambaugh 1988, 178.

19
. Carcopino 1940, 23.

20
. Carcopino 1940, 36.

21
. Packer 1967, 87.

22
. White 1984, 168.

23
. Quoted in White 1984, 168.

24
. Stambaugh 1988.

25
. Carcopino 1940, 42.

26
. Stambaugh 1988.

27
. Wrigley 1969.

28
. Carcopino 1940, 47.

29
. Africa 1971, 5.

30
. Lintott 1968.

31
. Cassisu Dio,
The Roman History
67.11.

32
. Africa 1971.

33
. Sinnigen 1961, 68.

34
. Shaw 1996, 114.

35
. Cahill et al. 1991, 69.

36
. Stambaugh 1988, 137.

37
. Bagnall 1993, 187.

38
. Bagnall 1993, 185.

39
. Judge 1986, 107.

40
. Quoted in Harnack 1904, 172–73.

41
. Eusebius,
The History of the Church
6:43.

42
. Schoedel 1991, 148.

43
. Johnson 1976, 75.

44
. Tertullian,
Apology,
chap. 39.

45
. Harnack 1904, 161.

46
. Zinsser [1934] 1960.

47
. Gilliam 1961; McNeill 1976; Russell 1958.

48
. Zinsser [1934] 1960, 135.

49
. Eusebius,
History of the Church
7.22.

50
. Thucydides,
Peloponnesian War
2.47, 2.51, 2.52.

51
. Cochrane [1940] 1957, 155.

52
. Cyprian,
Mortality
15–20.

53
. Dionysius,
Festival Letters,
in Eusebius,
The History of the Church
7.22.

54
. McNeill 1976, 108.

55
. Quoted in Ayer [1913] 1941, 332–33.

Chapter 7: Appeals to Women

 

1
. Harnack 1905, 220.

2
. Frend 1984, 99.

3
. Chadwick 1967, 56.

4
. Harnack 1905, 227.

5
. Salzman 2002. This finding prompted the author to offer a lengthy, but quite implausible, argument that women had not been more apt than men to embrace Christianity.

6
. Stark 2004.

7
. Liu, forthcoming; Miller 2000; Miller and Stark 2002; Roth and Kroll 2007; Stark 2002; 2004; Sullins 2006.

8
. Lefkowitz and Fant 2005; Osiek and MacDonald 2006; Pomeroy 1975; Shelton 1988.

9
. Quoted in Scroggs 1972, 290.

10
. Frend 1984, 67.

11
. Quoted in Bell 1973, 72.

12
. Witherington 1990, 5.

13
. Witherington 1990, 7.

14
. Brooten 1982; Kraemer 1992.

15
. Frend 1984, 67.

16
. For an excellent summary see Heine 1988. For a fine feminist analysis of greater sexual equality among Christians in contrast with pagans, see McNamara 1976.

17
. Shaw 1996, 107; also Shaw 1991.

18
. Shaw 1996, 110.

19
. Scroggs 1972, 283.

20
. Scroggs 1972; 1974.

21
. Iannaccone 1982.

22
.
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
10.96.

23
. Quoted in Gryson 1976, 134.

24
. Ferguson 1990.

25
. Brown 1988, 144–45.

26
. Meeks 1983, 71.

27
. Harris 1994, 1.

28
. Quoted in Lefkowitz and Fant 1992, 187.

29
. Lindsay 1968, 168.

30
. Lindsay 1968.

31
. Gorman 1982.

32
.
First Apology.

33
. Quoted in Hopkins 1965, 314.

34
.
The Roman History.

35
. Hopkins 1965.

36
. Clark 1981, 200.

37
. Quoted in Hopkins 1965, 314.

38
. Geller 1994, 83.

39
. Geller 1994, 83.

40
. This was often gotten around by ruling that a marriage had been invalid and hence no divorce was required.

41
. Chadwick 1967, 59.

42
. Brunt 1971, 137–38; also Harris 1982.

43
. Clark 1981, 195.

44
. Balsdon 1963, 173.

45
. Clark 1981, 195.

46
. Balsdon 1963, 173.

47
. Russell 1958.

48
. Brunt 1971; Boak 1955.

49
. Pomeroy 1975.

50
. Sandison 1967, 744.

51
. Riddle 1994.

52
. Harris 1994.

53
. Gorman 1982; Riddle 1994.

54
. Aulas Cornelius Celsus,
De medicina
7.29.

55
. Plato,
Republic
5.9.

56
. Aristotle,
Politics
7.14.10.

57
. Rawson 1986.

58
. Boak 1955; Devine 1985; Parkin 1992.

59
. Collingwood and Myres 1937.

60
. Frier 1994.

61
. Martin 1990.

62
. Harnack 1905, 234.

63
. Walsh 1986, 216.

64
. Sordi 1986, 27.

65
. Heaton 1990.

66
. Greeley 1970.

Chapter 8: Persecution and Commitment

 

1
. Tacitus,
Annals
15.44.

2
. According to Clement of Alexandia,
Stromata
7.11.

3
. Mattingly 1967, 31–36.

4
. Frend 1984, 109.

5
. Sordi 1986, 31.

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