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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... worship to Gods of lesser scope, but (perhaps) of greater psychological appeal—for example, from a rather distant, morally demanding High God to the quite permissive, colorful, nearby, and abundant Gods of the ancient pantheons. In ...
... worship illusions , for then they would have had to restore the Gods , illusory or not , to the core of religion . Instead , they even dismissed illusory Gods , thereby proposing , at least by implication , that people knowingly pray to ...
... worship and behavior in order to attract attention amid the din of competing messages. All this competition instills high levels of public commitment that is reinforced by the fact that all caste and ethnic dis- tinctions were (are) ...
... worship the same God , known by different names ? Next comes an account of the Arab con- quests and their rapid creation of a Muslim Empire . It dispels the notion of mass conversions to Islam , showing that the new faith spread rapidly ...
... worship or idolatry ; nor is the darkness of their minds enlightened by even a ray of superstition . The [ ir ] mind is as stagnant as the morass which forms its puny world . " 29 This claim was absurd in light of existing evidence that ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |