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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... revelations are uncreative in the sense that they do not include anything new , but merely confirm the truth of the current religious culture . As Evelyn Underhill ( 1875–1941 ) explained in her classic study Mysticism ( 1911 ) , most ...
... revelations since many founders dismissed the Gods as of little or no importance . The dominant theme of the New Hinduism conceived of the Gods in purely subjective terms- " All the gods are in me . " Subjective Gods are in- compatible ...
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Notes | 415 |
Bibliography | 447 |
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