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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... existence of God . Thus , when discussing revelations in Chapter 1 , I suggest the recipients might either be “ externalizing " the source of their own creative genius or that they might , in fact , be hearing God . In any event , it is ...
... existence of other, if far lesser, divine beings. That is, evil supernatural creatures such as Satan are essential. In this manner Zo- roastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are dualistic monothe- isms—each teaches that, in ...
... existence of a lesser, wicked supernatural creature. Here Satan exhorts a rebellion among the angels, as depicted by John Martin (1779–1854). (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Photo: Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Art Resource ...
... existence was lost until un- earthed by amateur English archaeologists in the nineteenth century . Explanations of both the rise and the decline of Indian Buddhism are as- sessed . So , too , for Jainism . The chapter also investigates ...
... existence of a distant tribe speaking the same language as them- selves, by declaring them to be the spirits of their dead.23 And on and on and on. Tylor attributed Animism to the severe limitations of the “primitive mind,” a prejudice ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |