Author: Lydia Maria ChildPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Progress of Religious Ideas, Through Successive Ages
Author: Lydia Maria ChildPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Progress of Religious Ideas
Author: Lydia Maria ChildPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Progress of Religious Ideas, Trough Successive Ages by L. Maria Child
Author: The Progress of Religious Ideas, Through Successive Ages
Author: Lydia Maria ChildPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2
Author: Mircea EliadePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022602735X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity—all are encompassed in this volume.
How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West
Author: Perez ZagorinPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691121427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great world religions. How Christian Europe and the West went from this extreme to their present universal belief in religious toleration is the momentous story fully told for the first time in this timely and important book by a leading historian of early modern Europe. Perez Zagorin takes readers to a time when both the Catholic Church and the main new Protestant denominations embraced a policy of endorsing religious persecution, coercing unity, and, with the state's help, mercilessly crushing dissent and heresy. This position had its roots in certain intellectual and religious traditions, which Zagorin traces before showing how out of the same traditions came the beginnings of pluralism in the West. Here we see how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century thinkers--writing from religious, theological, and philosophical perspectives--contributed far more than did political expediency or the growth of religious skepticism to advance the cause of toleration. Reading these thinkers--from Erasmus and Sir Thomas More to John Milton and John Locke, among others--Zagorin brings to light a common, if unexpected, thread: concern for the spiritual welfare of religion itself weighed more in the defense of toleration than did any secular or pragmatic arguments. His book--which ranges from England through the Netherlands, the post-1685 Huguenot Diaspora, and the American Colonies--also exposes a close connection between toleration and religious freedom. A far-reaching and incisive discussion of the major writers, thinkers, and controversies responsible for the emergence of religious tolerance in Western society--from the Enlightenment through the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights--this original and richly nuanced work constitutes an essential chapter in the intellectual history of the modern world.
The Naturalness of Religious Ideas
Author: Pascal BoyerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520911628
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 679
Book Description
Why do people have religious ideas? And why thosereligious ideas? The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties of the human mind-brain. Experimental results from developmental psychology, he says, can explain why certain religious representations are more likely to be acquired, stored, and transmitted by human minds. Considering these universal constraints, Boyer proposes an exciting new answer to the question of why similar religious representations are found in so many different cultures. His work will be widely discussed by cultural anthropologists, psychologists, and students of religion, history, and philosophy.
History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3
Author: Mircea EliadePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226204055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Examines the religions of ancient China, Brahmanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, and Christianity, and explores each one's philosophical concepts.
The Development of the Religious Idea in Judaism, Christianity and Mahomedanism
Author: Ludwig PhilippsonPublisher:
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Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief
Author: Sabine Baring-GouldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description