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Author : De Robigne Mortimer Bennett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 980 pages
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Download or read book The Gods and Religions of Ancient and Modern Times ... written by De Robigne Mortimer Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : De Robigne Mortimer Bennett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gods and Religions of Ancient and Modern Times ... written by De Robigne Mortimer Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derobingne Mortimer Bennett
Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781343871168
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gods and Religions of Ancient and Modern Times written by Derobingne Mortimer Bennett and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674015173
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Religions of the Ancient World written by Sarah Iles Johnston and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking, first basic reference work on ancient religious beliefs collects and organizes available information on ten ancient cultures and traditions, including Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia, and offers an expansive, comparative perspective on each one.
Author : Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307958337
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Battling the Gods written by Tim Whitmarsh and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities. Homer’s epic poems of human striving, journeying, and passion were ancient Greece’s only “sacred texts,” but no ancient Greek thought twice about questioning or mocking his stories of the gods. Priests were functionaries rather than sources of moral or cosmological wisdom. The absence of centralized religious authority made for an extraordinary variety of perspectives on sacred matters, from the devotional to the atheos, or “godless.” Whitmarsh explores this kaleidoscopic range of ideas about the gods, focusing on the colorful individuals who challenged their existence. Among these were some of the greatest ancient poets and philosophers and writers, as well as the less well known: Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; Socrates, executed for rejecting the gods of the Athenian state; Epicurus and his followers, who thought gods could not intervene in human affairs; the brilliantly mischievous satirist Lucian of Samosata. Before the revolutions of late antiquity, which saw the scriptural religions of Christianity and Islam enforced by imperial might, there were few constraints on belief. Everything changed, however, in the millennium between the appearance of the Homeric poems and Christianity’s establishment as Rome’s state religion in the fourth century AD. As successive Greco-Roman empires grew in size and complexity, and power was increasingly concentrated in central capitals, states sought to impose collective religious adherence, first to cults devoted to individual rulers, and ultimately to monotheism. In this new world, there was no room for outright disbelief: the label “atheist” was used now to demonize anyone who merely disagreed with the orthodoxy—and so it would remain for centuries. As the twenty-first century shapes up into a time of mass information, but also, paradoxically, of collective amnesia concerning the tangled histories of religions, Whitmarsh provides a bracing antidote to our assumptions about the roots of freethinking. By shining a light on atheism’s first thousand years, Battling the Gods offers a timely reminder that nonbelief has a wealth of tradition of its own, and, indeed, its own heroes.
Author : Bennett D. M.
Publisher : Hansebooks
ISBN 13 : 9783348068321
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gods and Religions written by Bennett D. M. and published by Hansebooks. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gods and Religions - of Ancient and modern times - Volume II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author : Derobingne Mortimer Bennett
Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781343898509
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gods and Religions of Ancient and Modern Times, Volume 1 written by Derobingne Mortimer Bennett and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-03 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : De Robigne Mortimer Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gods and Religions of Ancient and Modern Times ... written by De Robigne Mortimer Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary M. Saurer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462844057
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Comparison of World Religions written by Mary M. Saurer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-11-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings have inhabited the world for millions of years, and the oldest religious art found in caves and on bones dates as far back as 30,000 years. From earliest times, and still today, people share their ideas and form a group with others who have drawn similar conclusions about the meaning of life and the ultimate reality. They might call their group a religion; others might call it a cult. But the name they give to their concept of God does not mean that they worship a different god, only that they hold a different concept of the Source and Power of that which was, is and always will be. Every religion serves as a way of life, an opportunity to practice ones accepted beliefs, and a way to socialize with those who hold similar views. Religions can be dictated, but beliefs cannot. They are private and unique to the individual. It is ones own experience with that which he or she perceives as God that prompts the acceptance of a belief system, quiet endurance when there seems to be no choice, or the withdrawal from religion altogether. Public and personal wars have been fought in the name of righteous indignation in support of different belief systems that came from efforts to answer the questions of life. Many individuals have lived lives of frustration and confusion as a result of the commonly accepted belief system of the culture into which they were born. In this study we look briefly at the historical and geographical conditions related to the emergence of specific religious views, and the situation of the people whose lives are influenced by them. Our intent is not to determine which religion is right or wrong. Using a comparison point chart, we examine the basic premises of each belief system and how the holding of a premise impacts the lives of those who live it as if it were true.
Author : Jonathan Goldstein
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ISBN 13 : 9780300140590
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Peoples of an Almighty God written by Jonathan Goldstein and published by . This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some ancient civilizations held fast to the belief that their god or gods were stronger than all other heavenly powers. For a nation conquered by another power, the question of why their God allowed their defeat had to be faced. Goldstein looks at how different ancient civilizations reconciled their beliefs with the realities of history.
