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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... believed in life after death. Deep inside caves we also have found structures that might have been altars, and some caves contained collections of such things as bear skulls that might have had religious significance, too. In early ...
... believed that his explanations had general validity.”12 As noted, the fundamental premise of Naturism is that humans gain a sense of the divine from natural phenomena: sun, moon, stars, moun- tains, rivers, thunder and lightning, storms ...
... believed to be inhabited by a second identity, a spirit. In the case of the dead, the separation has become permanent, the life forces having departed with the spirit, and these now disembodied spirits are ghosts. Because in dreams one ...
... believed primitives fail to understand cause - and - effect and have no curiosity . Not surprisingly , Evans - Pritchard's judgment that Spencer's theory “ is a priori speculation , sprinkled with some illustrations , and is specious ...
... believed able to produce particular results , but the underlying explanations of why and how these procedures work are vague almost to the point of nonexistence . As the great anthro- pologist Bronislaw Malinowski ( 1884-1942 ) put it ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |
Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |