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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... or somehow prevented from haunting the still living. Hence, the immense culture concerning burial and funeral rites. This also leads to ancestor worship, which, in Herbert Spencer , the pro- lific originator of the Ghost 30 DISCOVERING GOD.
... worship is Totemism. Seeking details on the most “elementary” forms of religion, Durkheim turned to published reports about the aboriginal peoples of Australia, on the grounds that theirs was the most primitive of all known surviving ...
... worship an actual God . But he re- garded this as a very late development in their Totemism , amounting to nothing more than the very modest elevation of " an ancestral spirit " 45 who ultimately " can be none other than the clan itself ...
... worship nature , at least as an attempt to control it — and many of the more advanced cultures did worship Nature Gods . Many primitive people do live in a spirit - infested world . People in any era tend to connect dreams with the ...
... worship as an end in itself, and to thanksgiving for the gift of life and opportunity. That being the case, it will not be sufficient to define religion merely as belief in the supernatural, as Tylor and Spencer were content to do, and ...
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief Rodney Stark ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2009 |