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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... Paul Radin's famous collection of their work in Primitive Man as Philosopher ( 1927 ) . As for ordinary people , primitive or otherwise , they often can quite easily be convinced of the importance of existential questions by someone ...
... Paul Radin concluded that primitive people are only really “afraid of one thing, of the uncertainties of the struggle of life . . . of the battle for existence under the difficult conditions that prevail in simple societies.” That is ...
... Paul Tillich's “ground of being.”78 Measures and procedures for exchanging with the supernatural in- clude rites and rituals. Here, too, allowance is made for relatively God- less religions, since even such a vague supernaturalism as is ...
... Paul on the road to Damascus. Far more often, revelations involve only the sudden certainty that a par- ticular idea or interpretation is of divine origins, often based on the belief that God placed the thought, insight, or even whole ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |