Recommendations for books on the cultural differences between religions, primarily Christian denominations but the other Abrahamic and anything else too?To really get at what I'm asking: so I know this isn't as much of an influence today, but sometimes when watching older TV shows and movies and reading older books and articles, some character or the narrator will make a comment like, "X was a Calvinist/Quaker." And I want to understand what exactly this means in practice, what it means for the depiction of the character and their values, beliefs, motives, influences, and perspective of the world. Thank you.pic is some random Quaker church I pulled off Google
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>>24773849Start with the greeks
>>24774073Th-thanks anon...
>>24773849Modern Christianity pretty much condensed down into three camps, of which actual denomination is insignificant:>the church-normie: the standard inoffensive "be good and follow the rules which conveniently coincide with mainline culture's rules">the faggot: lgbtfjdkls;fsj churches, promotion of identity politics. views itself as having a social mission but is completely prideful and satanic. (most quakers today fall into this category to answer your question OP)>the pastor-jim: all about fire and brimstone and punishment. often are secretly faggots and are perhaps the most infantile of all>the tradlarper: acknowledges the fact grew up with garbage-trash culture. the problem is however they are not rooted in their faith of choice (usually cathoic or orthodox) so it can never quite be fully sincere but hey at least they're tryingUnironically the actual way to follow Christ is to turn away from various normie factions and seek truth inwardly.
>>24774407>(most quakers today fall into this category to answer your question OP)What's the reason for that?
>>24774417I would guess it has to do with the fact that Quaker theology is very loosely defined and ultimately regarded as subjective. This opens a flood gate of sorts where anything goes, which, in practice, means ego takeover, and therefore subversion by a radically egoist, individualist "culture" (which, ironically, ends up being quite collectivist in practice).
>>24774430>>24774407Thank you, now we're talkin'.
>>24774433Funnily enough, I personally admire the Quaker doctrine of the Inner Light, which ultimately is something very personal. But it seems that when normies are born and raised with any belief system, it tends to degrade and become a shadow of what it had set out to be.
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>>24773849Honestly as far as I’m aware this book is yet to be written
>>24774957Isn't this what comparative religion and cultural studies are for?
>>24774407That’s four camps. Really today there’s eastern and western and various subdivisions after those and you’re approaching it from a jungian perspective
>>24773849Spengler (PBUH) speaks of this.
>>24774967Yeah but I’ve yet to come across anything that succinctly compares the doctrinal articles of the various religions and their respective sects. All I’ve found is mostly bias and the actual scholars who would be very capable of it aren’t interested, I don’t blame them
>>24774972Hmm, guess I'll have to do my own research, visit churches in my state. I just want to know the differences between, say, a Quaker and an Evangelist and Presbyterian and how their theology shapes their culture compared to Judaism and Islam, shouldn't be so much to ask! Thanks I guess.
I suppose we can discuss it here whilst we wait for the literature. Why I think we should begin with doctrine is because doctrine begins at articles of faith and articles of faith are what makes certain religion distinct from other religions.For example, Islam has 6 articles of faith and Christianity has creeds which need to be condensed to compare
>>24773849>destroys the popularity of calvinism in englandWas Cromwell Laud's strongest soldier?
>>24775041What are the fundamental differences between the faith of Islam and Christianity in your view?
>>24775112Christians don’t accept Muhammad as a prophet, that’s the only difference everything else follows from there. Can equally say Muslims do accept Muhammad as a prophet.If Muhammad is a prophet then all the Quran and sunna are true, anything in Islam which disagrees with what is in Christianity is proven true if Muhammad is a prophet. That’s the only difference
>>24775254Ah, simple enough. Now to find a book that explains all of the other differences -- cultural, political, moral, philosophical.
>>24775257If those other differences are still differences without religion, say if there’s no religion like a vacuum of faith, then they aren’t differences because of religion. You can also test this by comparing people who have diverged because of religion, Arabs in the Levant for example are available to view in both Christian and Muslim or look at former Yugoslavia there’s Croats, Serbs, and Bosnians and you can look at those things
>>24773849>Christianity: An Introduction by Alister McGrath>Christianity as a World Religion by Sebastian Kim>Religion in American Life: A Short History by Jon Butler
>>24775642Thank you :)
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>>24774407There are plenty of sincere trads. I will admit to having some affinity for this camp because I lean towards ancient thought and it produces a lot of good scholarship on that area.To be honest, I don't think any other group is a vehemently strawmanned on /lit/ or similar venues. Even quite inoffensive guys like Charles Taylor or MacIntyre get turned into raving ludites, and someone will make a milquetoast comment pointing to the basic theses of these guys or a few of their more spicy peers and immediately get a wall of criticism about how they are horribly historically illiterate and even if they were right they should just fuck off to the woods anyhow.As a Plato fan myself, I cannot help but think the strong reaction is because this position challenges the dominant paradigm the most, whereas an endless war between pastor-jims and lgbtbbqs with normies stuck in the middle is perfectly in line with the status quo of exclusive humanism with faith privatized and reduced to merely aesthetic fideism and a sort of IDpol.
