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An award-winning sociologist's “fascinating and excellent” history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age (Newsweek).In Discovering God, 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. Many modern biologists and psychologists claim that religion is a primitive survival mechanism that should have been discarded as humans evolved—that in modern societies, faith is a misleading crutch and an impediment to reason. 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.Winner of the 2008 Christianity Today Award of Merit in Theology/Ethics

Who reads Discovering God : The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief?

Author

Rodney Stark

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061743337

Category

history

Subjects

Religion, History, Sociology

Rating

3.66 / 5 (142 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14