Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of BeliefHarperCollins, 2 µ.¤. 2007 - 496 ˹éÒ Discovering God is a monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age. Sociologist Rodney Stark surveys the birth and growth of religions around the world—from the prehistoric era of primal beliefs; the history of the pyramids found in Iraq, Egypt, Mexico, and Cambodia; and the great "Axial Age" of Plato, Zoroaster, Confucius, and the Buddha, to the modern Christian missions and the global spread of Islam. He argues for a free-market theory of religion and for the controversial thesis that under the best, unimpeded conditions, the true, most authentic religions will survive and thrive. Among his many conclusions:
Most people believe in the existence of God (or Gods), and this has apparently been so throughout human history. Many modern biologists and psychologists reject these spiritual ideas, especially those about the existence of God, as delusional. They claim that religion is a primitive survival mechanism that should have been discarded as humans evolved beyond the stage where belief in God served any useful purpose—that in modern societies, faith is a misleading crutch and an impediment to reason. In Discovering God, award-winning sociologist Rodney Stark responds to this position, arguing that it is our capacity to understand God that has evolved—that humans now know much more about God than they did in ancient times. |
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... nature of the supernatural , which may specify methods or procedures for exchanging with the supernatural . Earlier , supernatural was defined as somewhat mysterious forces or en- tities that are above , beyond , or outside nature and ...
... Nature " Gods , divided into three funda- mental classes or " worlds ” : celestial , atmospheric , and terrestrial . It was this set of categories that prompted Max Müller to propose ( incorrectly ) that all of the earliest religions ...
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Notes | 415 |
Bibliography | 447 |
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