Ergebnis für "Die neue Welt 1.2 Virus" in Religion & Spiritualität

Apokalyptische Reiter, Unheil kündende Engel mit Posaunen, der Zorn Gottes in sieben Schalen, Krieg, Geschwüre und Feuersbrunst. Wenige Bücher können es an rauschhaften Visionen mit der Offenbarung des Johannes aufnehmen, diesem bis heute geheimnisvollen Teil des Neuen Testaments. Wie in einem Fiebertraum verschmelzen Mensch und Tier, stehen Himmel und Erde in Flammen, blasen Engel und göttliche Gestalten zum Gericht über Verfehlungen und Kleinmut.

For thousands of years, religion has woven its way through societies and people as if it were part and parcel to that society or person. In large measure it was left unexplained and unchallenged, it simply existed. Those who attempted to challenge and expose religion were often persecuted, excommunicated, shunned, or even executed. It could be fatal to explain that which the church, priest or imam said was unexplainable. Before the germ, viral and parasite theory of disease, physicians had no tools to understand disease and its propagation.

Virus of the Mind is the first popular work devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive science. Memetics is the science of memes, the invisible but very real DNA of human society. Here, the author carefully builds on the work of scientists Richard Dawkins, Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett, and others who have become fascinated with memes and their potential impact on our lives.