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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... one's fate is predes- tined in the stars stands in opposition to God's gift of free will.13 In keeping with this approach , Jews and Christians have always as- sumed that the application of reason can yield an increasingly more ac ...
... one's “salvation,” whether this meant a rewarding afterlife or escape from the Wheel of Karma. How did all of this happen in so many places at once? How much of it could have been the result of diffusion, of the spread of religious ...
... one's dreams. Or, as in the case of death, the spirit departs to lead an independent existence. Spelled out and illustrated in massive detail, Spencer's notions became known as the Ghost Theory. Spencer began with the assumption that a ...
... one's mind. When Spencer W. Kimball, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announced the revelation that persons of African ancestry should be admitted to the Mormon priesthood, he described the process by which ...
... one's conscious- ness . How very easily one might be convinced by the quality and content of these revelations , as well as by their sudden arrival , that they could only have been sent by a supernatural source . Alternatively , we are ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |