How Religion Arises: A Psychological Study (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Ryle, Herbert Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330330110 ISBN 13 : 9781330330111

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Why do religions begin? A thoughtful, accessible look at fear, wonder, and the ideas that shape belief.

In this scholarly, readable study, the origin of religion is examined through the lenses of fear, wonder, and the human search for meaning. The author surveys major philosophical theories, weighing their strengths and limits while tracing how belief has taken many forms across cultures. The goal is to illuminate the ideas behind religious feeling without oversimplifying their complexity.

Across sections that discuss fear, wonder, and the role of thought, the book offers a clear map of how scholars have explained religion’s beginnings. It presents the arguments, then considers their implications for understanding religion today.

• Clear explanations of classic theories about how fear and awe contribute to religious feeling.
• Critical examination of rationalist and thought-based accounts of religion’s origins.
• Connections drawn between early human inquiry, causality, and the formation of religious ideas.
• A careful, balanced discussion suitable for students and general readers alike.

Ideal for readers of philosophy, religion, and psychology who want a thoughtful overview of how religion may arise from basic human experiences.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from How Religion Arises: A Psychological Study

The universal and "all-absorbing" ideas of the human being are few. We may conclude their universality results from their necessity. What continues in being during ages has reason (in the nature of things) for being. What everybody does must be done. What is everywhere is exotic nowhere. Religion is cosmopolitan. In some form, it is at home in every breast. Its products are two-sided, the souls experiences and the souls expressions. Again they are from two causes, the internal impulse and the external influence. As languages grow from the linguistic tendency and necessity, so religions are growths from the religious attitude and needs. All such ideas (language, morality, religion) are both spontaneous and necessitated. They germinate and develop because such is the nature of life. They develop with this character or that because such is the nature of their environment. Their tendency is unconscious. Hence, whoever lives naturally lives religiously. Only by reasoned artifice and studied doubt is he otherwise, and even this may become religious to him. He may find the object of his adoration or his ideal in a charmed bit of stone, a tree, a mountain, the sea, the sun, his ancestor, a noble woman, deified humanity, an ideal life, the Grand Lama, an anthropomorphic pantheon, or the high and holy One who inhabiteth eternity. He may bow down to this or bend his knee to that; but something inevitably commands his reverence, and draws forth whatever longings toward fuller, higher life he is capable of.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330330110
• ISBN 13: 9781330330111
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
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