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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... -06-117389-9 ISBN - 10 : 0-06-117389-4 1. Religions . I. Title . BL80.3.S73 2007 200 - dc22 07 08 09 10 11 RRD ( H ) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2007018576 Preface vii CONTENTS Introduction : Revelation and Cultural Evolution 1.
... Revelation and Cultural Evolution 1. Gods in Primitive Societies 2. Temple Religions of Ancient Civilizations 3. Rome : An Ancient Religious Marketplace 1 27 21 64 113 156 4. The " Rebirth " of Monotheism 5. Indian Inspirations 210 6 ...
The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark. INTRODUCTION. REVELATION. AND. CULTURAL. EVOLUTION. S. ince I was very young I have often wondered about God. Does he really exist ... Revelation and Cultural ...
... revelations underlie many of the 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 ...
... revelations in Chapter 1 , I suggest the recipients might either be “ externalizing " the source of their own ... REVELATION AS DIVINE ACCOMMODATION Theology involves formal reasoning about God . The emphasis is on discov- ering God's ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |