I love the history aspect of religion especially. The founders of some of these religious traditions are fascinating when you try to look closely at what the lives of these mortals were like who’s ideas have won the adherence of billions today. How can I relate to and reflect on the contexts that these people lived through hundreds of years ago? The quest for the historical Jesus and Muhammad are two topics that especially fit her, though there are probably others who are interested in the lives of figures like the historical Buddha.
That’s cool! I like reading about the history of the development of religious thought and currents too. It helps me contextualize how we at least narrowly understand religious ideas. For example, how Judaism (and consequently Christianity and Islam) became monotheistic and how we now rationalize pre-monotheistic Judaism to suit the fundamentalist idea that it was always that way. I am religious but it helps understand how these ideas formed and its flaws and space for interpretation. But I kinda stopped reading too much into the historical X-person, for the most part so much is conjecture. Is there a book you like?
I love the history aspect of religion especially. The founders of some of these religious traditions are fascinating when you try to look closely at what the lives of these mortals were like who’s ideas have won the adherence of billions today. How can I relate to and reflect on the contexts that these people lived through hundreds of years ago? The quest for the historical Jesus and Muhammad are two topics that especially fit her, though there are probably others who are interested in the lives of figures like the historical Buddha.
That’s cool! I like reading about the history of the development of religious thought and currents too. It helps me contextualize how we at least narrowly understand religious ideas. For example, how Judaism (and consequently Christianity and Islam) became monotheistic and how we now rationalize pre-monotheistic Judaism to suit the fundamentalist idea that it was always that way. I am religious but it helps understand how these ideas formed and its flaws and space for interpretation. But I kinda stopped reading too much into the historical X-person, for the most part so much is conjecture. Is there a book you like?