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Relevant sociological ideas data anecdotes previous scholarship and scathing criticism of many academic truisms are sprinkled ... Read More
With the assimilation of these religions into the roman pantheon stark breaks into his theory of religious economies
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Not unlike an alasdair macintyre of sociology stark is an unquestioned master of his subject whose lifelong study of his subjec... Read More
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A facinating work in the manner of rudolf otto
The roman empire provided an ideal market place for ideas to compete
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- This product had a total of 63 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 3 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Relevant sociological ideas data anecdotes previous scholarship and scathing criticism of many academic truisms are sprinkled throughout with the most controversial elementsstarks opinions on what may count as authentic revealed religioncoming in the final chapter
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Stark notes that contrary to the evolutionary biologists claim that the idea of god first came from fearing the forces of nature and gave these forces names and sacrificed to them as a means of exerting control over the unpredictable
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Stark claims that this is contrary to sociological findings
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From this era of high gods stark shows that the religions of the near east devolved into a politicized mass of temple religions
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The temple religions are then spread throughout the roman empire
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I was quite taken by it and am determined to try another book from this author
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And hence the appeal of polytheism and ascribing human characteristics to the cold distant monotheist god
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What impresses me about this book is that stark so often gets it right where the conventional wisdom gets it wrong
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