Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of BeliefHarper Collins, 2 ต.ค. 2007 - 496 หน้า 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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... Durkheim ( 1858–1917 ) dismissed Gods as unimportant window dressing , stressing instead that rites and rituals are the fundamental stuff of religion . In a book review written in 1886 of Herbert Spencer's Principles of Sociology ...
... Durkheim.26 From this perspective it was impossible for primitive religions to be other than crude , implausible superstitions . Consider , too , that nearly every one of these scholars dismissed all religious beliefs as “ absurd ” and ...
... Durkheim and Sigmund Freud. Durkheim's Aboriginal Religion The sociology of religion was dominated for nearly a century by a single volume published in French in 1912 and in English in 1915: The El- ementary Forms of the Religious Life ...
... Durkheim to conclude that Totemism is the most primitive of all forms of religion . This is because Totemism is " closely allied with the most primitive social organization that is known and even , in all probability , that is ...
... Durkheim , participation in these rites instills a strong sense of commitment to the group and causes people to fulfill their obligations to society , especially those of the moral variety . Durkheim sometimes referred to the totem as ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |