A Theory of ReligionP. Lang, 1987 - 386 Seiten This book offers the first modern theory of religion. A deductive theory, beginning with seven axioms about human nature and the world humans inhabit, it derives hundreds of formal propositions about human religious behavior. Included are the origins of religion, the sources of religious commitment, the development of religious institutions, the emergence of religious movements, and the postulation of good and evil gods. Step by step, the authors explain the social processes of recruitment to a group, propagation of a faith, and competition between denominations. They show that secularization is a never-ending process in which particular faiths are discredited while new faiths arise to take their place. Thus, religion is an eternal human response to the conditions of existence, changing in form throughout history but always a vital part of culture and society. |
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... elite and offers specific compensators that undercut the exact rewards the elite possesses as a class . But an innovative cult is not oriented in opposition to the state church . It can offer a set of com- pensators outside the ...
... elite and offers specific compensators that undercut the exact rewards the elite possesses as a class . But an innovative cult is not oriented in opposition to the state church . It can offer a set of com- pensators outside the ...
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... elite use their monopoly of the cultural means of coercion to impose below - market exchange ratios on non - elite members of the society . Repression is limited by cleavages within the elite , by competing yet cooperating elites who ...
... elite use their monopoly of the cultural means of coercion to impose below - market exchange ratios on non - elite members of the society . Repression is limited by cleavages within the elite , by competing yet cooperating elites who ...
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... elites . A single , monolithic elite , unrestrained by religion or other independent sources of power , will go far in draining other groups of resources which it turns to its own purposes . This does not mean that all elites are ...
... elites . A single , monolithic elite , unrestrained by religion or other independent sources of power , will go far in draining other groups of resources which it turns to its own purposes . This does not mean that all elites are ...
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Evolution of the Gods | 21 |
279 | 89 |
Emergence of Schismatic Religious Movements | 121 |
Urheberrecht | |
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