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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... therefore yield no informa- tion about the “growth of religious ideas.” Indeed, “among the savages of Africa, America, and Australia ... it is difficult enough to know what their religion is at present; what it was in its 24 DISCOVERING ...
... tion of the “Mind” as an internal seat of thinking. “But until there is a conception of Mind as an internal principle of activity, there can be no conception of dreams.”30 Consequently, primitives believe “that dreams are actual ...
... tion and to enter the domain of arbitrary and unverifiable conjectures . " Summarizing the " data of observation , " Durkheim noted that each Australian aboriginal belongs to a totem group or clan signified by some animal , reptile , or ...
... tion to his master , 56 biologists have been postulating religious instincts and other neurological bases for religion , and their work has increasingly attracted considerable attention , especially in the popular media . Building from ...
... tion. ... It is far more advantageous to overdetect agency than to underde- tect it. The expense of false positives (seeing agency where there is none) is minimal” so long as we are able to “abandon these misguided intuitions quickly ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |