Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief

An award-winning sociologist's "fascinating and excellent" history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age (Newsweek).

In Discovering God, Rodney Stark surveys the birth and growth of religions around the world—from the prehistoric era of primal beliefs; the history of the pyramids found in Iraq, Egypt, Mexico, and Cambodia; and the great "Axial Age" of Plato, Zoroaster, Confucius, and the Buddha, to the modern Christian missions and the global spread of I...