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Автор: Jay G.Williams
Год: 2008
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 208
ISBN: 9780980050806
Religion: What It Has Been Beginning with a review of the human needs that all religions seek to fulfill, Dr. Williams traces the world's religions as they evolved through four cultural channels: China, India and South Asia, the Near East, and Europe. The histories of all the great religious traditions-Confucianism, the Greek and Roman pantheons, Judaism and Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, Islam -- evolved through the four great world cultures and often followed empires as they conquered and expanded. Religion: What It Is The various religious traditions are followed down all four cultural streams to contemporary time -- through their confrontations with the Enlightenment, Nietszche ("God is dead!"), Freud, and perhaps most profoundly with Darwin. The fundamentalist and moderate threads of both the Islamic and the Judaeo-Christian fabrics are thoughtfully examined. About the author ...
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