books.google.ca - The idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor is a widely accepted notion. Yet it is one of many myths that must be discarded if we are to understand just how a tiny messianic movement on the edge of the Roman Empire became the dominant faith of Western civilization. In...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_rise_of_Christianity.html?id=HcFSaGvgKKkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe rise of Christianity