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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... myths” that arise from these personifications. Hence, Müller is considered the leader of the Naturism “school.” Although most Naturists were Germans, Müller spent most of his adult life at Oxford, rising to be a Professor and Fellow of ...
... myth- ical or otherwise. Decoded according to the premises of the Naturists, these myths dissolve into the observation that dawn dies as the sun rises. Müller and his colleagues repeated this sort of decoding to the point of utter ...
... myths, and beliefs. For example: It is recorded by Brebeuf that the Hurons, when a little child died, would bury them by the wayside, that their souls might enter into mothers passing by, and so be born again. In the North-West America ...
... myth " than a social - scientific theory . Freud claimed that the earliest humans lived in small groups made up of one dominant adult male and a number of women and their children . As they approached maturity , all young males were ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |