Author: Oscar Frederick HoffmanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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The Attitude of the Great Religions Toward Human Increase
Author: Oscar Frederick HoffmanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Religion in Human Evolution
Author: Robert N. BellahPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674252934
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 777
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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution. “Of Bellah’s brilliance there can be no doubt. The sheer amount this man knows about religion is otherworldly...Bellah stands in the tradition of such stalwarts of the sociological imagination as Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Only one word is appropriate to characterize this book’s subject as well as its substance, and that is ‘magisterial.’” —Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review “Religion in Human Evolution is a magnum opus founded on careful research and immersed in the ‘reflective judgment’ of one of our best thinkers and writers.” —Richard L. Wood, Commonweal
A Human Approach to World Peace
Author: The Impact of Religion, Personality, Values and Worldviews on Attitudes Towards Human Rights
Author: Modestus Chiedozie AdimekwePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031657497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The Catholic Encyclopedia: Assize-Brownr
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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A Culture of Growth
Author: Joel MokyrPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400882915
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to today's unprecedented prosperity? In this groundbreaking book, celebrated economic historian Joel Mokyr argues that a culture of growth specific to early modern Europe and the European Enlightenment laid the foundations for the scientific advances and pioneering inventions that would instigate explosive technological and economic development. Bringing together economics, the history of science and technology, and models of cultural evolution, Mokyr demonstrates that culture—the beliefs, values, and preferences in society that are capable of changing behavior—was a deciding factor in societal transformations. Mokyr looks at the period 1500–1700 to show that a politically fragmented Europe fostered a competitive "market for ideas" and a willingness to investigate the secrets of nature. At the same time, a transnational community of brilliant thinkers known as the “Republic of Letters” freely circulated and distributed ideas and writings. This political fragmentation and the supportive intellectual environment explain how the Industrial Revolution happened in Europe but not China, despite similar levels of technology and intellectual activity. In Europe, heterodox and creative thinkers could find sanctuary in other countries and spread their thinking across borders. In contrast, China’s version of the Enlightenment remained controlled by the ruling elite. Combining ideas from economics and cultural evolution, A Culture of Growth provides startling reasons for why the foundations of our modern economy were laid in the mere two centuries between Columbus and Newton.
The Rise of Modern Religious Ideas
Author: Arthur Cushman McGiffertPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Free Religious Index
Author: William James PotterPublisher:
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Category : Unitarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Christian Advocate
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Davidson County (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
Author: Charles George HerbermannPublisher:
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Category : Catholic Church
Languages : en
Pages : 874
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