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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... became Christians . What was its appeal ? The chapter then sketches the long decline of European Christianity , beginning with Constantine's establishment of it as the subsidized state church . The empty churches in Europe today are not ...
... became very obese. (Naturhistoriches Museum, Vienna; Photo: Erich Lessing/ Art Resource, New York.) who regard this as a somewhat “unsound” assumption,5 I agree that the ethnographic accounts of the religions of these groups deserve ...
... became Oxford's first - ever professor of anthropology . He was knighted in 1909 . Tylor coined the term Animism to distinguish primitive religions from more " advanced " forms . Animism consists of the belief that literally every ...
... became the overwhelming consensus among social scientists , that religion is a universal trait of human cultures . Ghost Theory A severe critic of Naturism , and a strong supporter of Tylor's notions about Animism , was another ...
... became known as the Ghost Theory. Spencer began with the assumption that a primitive “thinks without observing that he thinks” and fails, therefore, to develop any concep- tion of the “Mind” as an internal seat of thinking. “But until ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |