Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of BeliefHarper Collins, 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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... Jesus replied that people differed greatly in what they could comprehend : " This is why I speak to them in parables , because seeing they do not see , and hearing they do not hear , nor do they understand . " 19 It was in this same ...
... Jesus and then examines how the theological Christ effectively human- ized the Jewish conception of God , thus fusing the intellectual appeal of monotheism with the emotional appeal of anthropomorphic deities . That is , Christ offered ...
... Jesus Movement , the chapter turns to an estimated growth curve that shows the number of Christians within the empire at various times between the years 40 and 350 — a curve that is validated by comparison with known statistics such as ...
... Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear,” religion offers an alternative means to achieve greatly desired ends, when direct methods fail or do not exist. However, although this proposition identifies a basic function of reli- gion, it ...
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