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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... supernatural beings having consciousness and intentions. When given the choice, humans prefer Gods. Human images of God will tend to progress from those having smaller to those having greater scope. Scope of the Gods refers to the ...
... supernatural creatures such as Satan are essential. In this manner Zo- roastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are dualistic monothe- isms—each teaches that, in addition to a supreme divine being, there also exists at least one ...
... supernatural creature. Here Satan exhorts a rebellion among the angels, as depicted by John Martin (1779–1854). (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Photo: Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Art Resource, New York.) but because God was ...
... supernatural agent . ” He continued : The idea of God which seemed to be the sum total of religion a short while ago , is now no more than a minor accident . It is a psychologi- cal phenomenon which has got mixed up with a whole ...
... supernatural powers needed to influence nature and events. Real or not, such “somethings” are Gods. Variations in how God or the Gods are conceived is the crucial difference among faiths and cultures, as will be demonstrated beyond ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |
Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |