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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... faith is sustained only by ignorance and credulity. Richard Dawkins's latest title tells it all: The God Delusion. Not only does the topic of religious evolution tend to attract those antagonistic to religion, but comparisons among ...
... faith spread rapidly by treaty and conquest , but that the actual conversion of the general pub- lic in most of these satellite societies took many centuries . It also exposes the anti-Christian fabrication that Islam was very tolerant ...
... faith among nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholars, and variations on that theme persist in some current attempts by biologists and evolu- tionary psychologists to predict the end of religion, claiming that faith is ...
... “virus.” Indeed, he proposed that “faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.”69 Eventually it dawned on Dawkins that in his efforts to Gods in Primitive Societies 41.
... faith. That creative flourish aside, there is nothing particularly original in the entire book. Most of it is a rehash of Dawkins and Boyer, and Dennett makes no effort to deal with their insufficiencies. He also devotes considerable ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |