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. Preface vii CONTENTS Introduction : Revelation and Cultural Evolution 1. Gods in Primitive Societies 2. Temple Religions of Ancient Civilizations 3. Rome : An ...
... religion: the biological, cultural, and theological. Chapter 2 sketches the ascendancy of state-supported temple religions featuring priestly polytheism in the early civilizations—Sumer, Egypt, Greece, and Mesoamerica. Why did these ...
The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark. daism in its various stages: how it was transformed under Solomon into an established temple religion that exhibited considerable polytheism, and how in the ...
... religions sustained by full - time “ philosopher " monks who devoted very little attention to recruiting popular followings — indeed , these were ( are ) classic temple religions like those in Sumer , Egypt , Greece , and Mesoamerica ...
... religions, since there was nothing hidden about the personifications of nature in these faiths. Any Greek who visited a temple dedicated to “Helios,” or any Ro- man who dedicated a sacrifice to “Sol,” knew these were the names of a God ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |