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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The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark. ૩ Black Sea W Indus R. MAHAVIRA 1,500 km 1,500 mi Yellow R. Yangtze R. also constitutes discovery if one posits that God exists . Europe PYTH PYTHAGORAS ...
... origin of religions. PLAN OF THE BOOK Chapter 1 examines the initial stages in religious culture. What did primi- tive humans believe, and why did they believe it? The four major “schools” concerning the nature and origins of primitive ...
The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark. their religion is at present; what it was in its origin, what it was even a thousand years ago, is entirely beyond our reach.”9 Nor is it possible to see the ...
... origin of primitive religion and the underlying cause of Animism ( and accepted as such by Tylor ) . Given these origins , early primitive religion must have been Godless , ignorant , and childlike . Having proposed this theory ...
The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark. this , too , is significant as it ... Origin of Conscious- ness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind , Jaynes claimed that con- sciousness consists of a ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |