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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... Totemism. Although each of these approaches has many shortcomings, they serve as an effective way to begin an exploration of primitive religion and are especially useful to set the stage for a remarkable later breakthrough. Naturism Max ...
... Totemism ( 1887 ) . But Totemism was made the centerpiece of all primitive religions by a Scottish scholar , W. Robertson Smith ( 1846-1894 ) , when he gave the Burnett Lectures of 1888-1889 . 938 Smith believed that Totemism is " the ...
... Totemism attracted a great deal of attention, particularly because he attempted to show that all sacrifices among the Jews derived from the primitive tradition of totemic sacrifices. However, the best anthro- pologists of the day ...
... 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 conceivable . Therefore , to assume ...
... Totemism , amounting to nothing more than the very modest elevation of " an ancestral spirit " 45 who ultimately " can be none other than the clan itself , but ... trans- figured and imagined . " 46 It is upon this sacred totemic ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |