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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... Rome: An Ancient Religious Marketplace 113 4. The “Rebirth” of Monotheism 156 5. Indian Inspirations 210 6. Chinese Gods and “Godless” Faiths 249 7. The Rise of Christianity 282 8. Islam: God and State 339 Conclusion: Discovering God ...
... Rome and how this permitted the constant influx of new faiths, especially from Greece, Egypt, and the Near East. It examines how competition among these many religions resulted in an unusually high level of religiousness among ordinary ...
... Rome, thereby forestalling conversion to the God of the Jews and the Christians. Turning to the East, Chapter 5 is focused on the rise of religions in India, principally Hinduism and Buddhism. India has sustained a very unregulated and ...
... Rome, the Aztecs, and the Maya—the kinds of societies in which Müller and his colleagues were primarily interested and that left the written records on which they chose to rely. For example, each of these societies did pay great homage ...
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