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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... claiming that the Christian Passion Narrative derives from myths about the deaths and resurrections of Attis , Adonis , and many others , and that it is a reenact- ment of " the Jewish festival of Purim [ which ] is a continuation ...
... claim that people worship illusions , for then they would have had to restore the Gods , illusory or not , to the core of religion . Instead , they even dismissed illusory Gods , thereby proposing , at least by implication , that people ...
... claims are dismissed in light of more recent studies show- ing that many of the most primitive of the known cultures had rather sophisticated notions of High Gods and extensive accounts of Creation. The theological and social-scientific ...
... claims that many important and enlightening scriptures were wrongly ex- cluded from the New Testament by repressive Church leaders - writings now known as Gnostic gospels . The truth is that these scriptures were properly dismissed as a ...
... Claims that Islam sustained a “Golden Age” of civilization and amity in multicultural societies such as Moorish Spain are false. Muslims were no less intolerant than Christians. Finally, the major outlines of Muslim sectarianism are ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |