The New York Times takes a look at Rodney Stark’s The Victory of Reason, in Capitalism, Brought to You by Religion:
‘The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians,’ he argues in this provocative, exasperating and occasionally baffling exercise in revisionism. Capitalism, and the scientific revolution that powered it, did not emerge in spite of religion but because of it.
(See also, How Christianity (and Capitalism) Led to Science.)