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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... major religions seem to lack any trace of divine inspiration? Questions such as these prompted me to fully reassess the origins and cultural evolution of the world's great religions, a topic that once attracted many distinguished ...
... major faiths . Instead , the dominating scholarly perspective regards all revelations as purely psy- chological events and assumes that the answer to where God was prior to Abraham's generation is that Yahweh hadn't been invented yet ...
... major aspect of re- ligions. Culture is not something that hovers over a society like some sort of intellectual cloud bank. Culture matters only as it is embedded in soci- ety. Hence, religion matters only as it is the focus of human ...
... major contemporary approaches to explaining why all societies have religion: the biological, cultural, and theological. Chapter 2 sketches the ascendancy of state-supported temple religions featuring priestly polytheism in the early ...
... major " religions , nor even all of them together , actually become the religion of most Chinese ? Why did most people continue to patronize the elaborate polytheism known as Folk Religion long after similar faiths had died out in the ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |