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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... Jewish festival of Purim [ which ] is a continuation , under a changed name , of the Babylonian Sacaea [ which is ] a reminiscence of the ancient custom of crucifying or hanging a man [ Haman ] in the character of a god at the festival ...
... Jewish and Christian theologians have devoted centuries to reasoning about what God may have really meant by various ... Jews and Christians have always as- sumed that the application of reason can yield an increasingly more ac- curate ...
... Jews held in Babylon returned and overthrew the remnants of polytheism, finally instituting unwavering monotheism in Israel. The next section traces the establishment of Jewish Diasporan communities around the Mediterranean and their ...
... Jewish conception of God , thus fusing the intellectual appeal of monotheism with the emotional appeal of anthropomorphic deities . That is , Christ offered a comforting , accessible , human Son , who miti- gated the difficulties in ...
... Jewish belief that God continues to reveal himself to scholars through their close study of the Torah. Regardless of the form they take, most revelations are uncreative in the sense that they do not include anything new, but merely ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |