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Author: Jason Ananda Josephson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226412350
Size: 63.14 MB
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Release Date: 2012-10-03
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Invention Of Religion In Japan eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call “religion.” There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese government to sign treaties demanding, among other things, freedom of religion, the country had to contend with this Western idea. In this book, Jason Ananda Josephson reveals how Japanese officials invented religion in Japan and traces the sweeping intellectual, legal, and cultural changes that followed. More than a tale of oppression or hegemony, Josephson’s account demonstrates that the process of articulating religion offered the Japanese state a valuable opportunity. In addition to carving out space for belief in Christianity and certain forms of Buddhism, Japanese officials excluded Shinto from the category. Instead, they enshrined it as a national ideology while relegating the popular practices of indigenous shamans and female mediums to the category of “superstitions”—and thus beyond the sphere of tolerance. Josephson argues that the invention of religion in Japan was a politically charged, boundary-drawing exercise that not only extensively reclassified the inherited materials of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto to lasting effect, but also reshaped, in subtle but significant ways, our own formulation of the concept of religion today. This ambitious and wide-ranging book contributes an important perspective to broader debates on the nature of religion, the secular, science, and superstition.

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Author: Jan Assmann
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691203199
Size: 54.36 MB
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Release Date: 2020-03-24
Category: Bibles
Language: en
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Download PDF The Invention Of Religion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A groundbreaking account of how the Book of Exodus shaped fundamental aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam The Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan Assmann, a leading historian of ancient religion. The story of Moses guiding the enslaved children of Israel out of captivity to become God's chosen people is the foundation of an entirely new idea of religion, one that lives on today in many of the world's faiths. First introduced in Exodus, new ideas of faith, revelation, and above all covenant transformed basic assumptions about humankind’s relationship to the divine and became the bedrock of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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Book Detail:
Author: Derek R. Peterson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813530932
Size: 57.23 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2002
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Invention Of Religion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Is religion an obstacle to the values of modernity? Popular and scholarly opinion says that it is. In a world gripped in a clash of civilizations, religious absolutism seems to threaten the modern virtues of tolerance, reason, and freedom. This collection of historical essays argues that this popular view--religion versus modernity--is used by the politically powerful to construct the religious as irrational and antimodern. The authors study how nationalists, state officials, missionaries, and scholars in the West and in the colonized world defined and redefined the relationship between the political and the religious --From publisher's description.

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Book Detail:
Author: Daniel Dubuisson
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN: 9781781798126
Size: 23.98 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2019
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Invention Of Religions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. For nearly thirty years, a scientific revolution has taken place in the religious studies departments of several North American and British universities--and the results are considerable, obliging us to envisage new ways of conceiving of this academic field. While the History of Religions tended to rest in the shade and guardianship of past authorities, this critical current has re-examined the discipline's a priori positions, its favourite arguments, its long prehistory within Euro/Christian culture, but also its numerous ethnocentric prejudices. The first part of the volume considers anew the origins and Christian history of the notion of religion. This starting point then allows us to identify dead ends and contradictions within the traditional History of Religions approach. The second part is dedicated to the synthetic presentation of the concepts, methods, and controversies, which distinguish this current. Following this are two related contributions devoted to two major case studies: "Colonialism and Cultural Imperialism" and "The Invention of Hinduism and Shintoism". Finally, in the third and last part of the book, this trend itself is critically examined. The author identifies some of the paradoxes, gaps, and aporias that this approach has already gathered during its short existence.

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Book Detail:
Author: Tomoko Masuzawa
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226509893
Size: 68.23 MB
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Release Date: 2005-05-15
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Invention Of World Religions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculturalism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world religions" is actually a particular ethos, a pluralist ideology, a logic of classification, and a form of knowledge that has shaped the study of religion and infiltrated ordinary language. In this ambitious study, Tomoko Masuzawa examines the emergence of "world religions" in modern European thought. Devoting particular attention to the relation between the comparative study of language and the nascent science of religion, she demonstrates how new classifications of language and race caused Buddhism and Islam to gain special significance, as these religions came to be seen in opposing terms-Aryan on one hand and Semitic on the other. Masuzawa also explores the complex relation of "world religions" to Protestant theology, from the hierarchical ordering of religions typical of the Christian supremacists of the nineteenth century to the aspirations of early twentieth-century theologian Ernst Troeltsch, who embraced the pluralist logic of "world religions" and by so doing sought to reclaim the universalist destiny of European modernity.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alexander Drake
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781475165722
Size: 14.58 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2012
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Invention Of Religion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "In this book, the author explores the question of whether religions were invented by humans or given to us by some other means. It is a scientific look at how ancient humans made sense of the world and the phenomena they encountered around them. In the past, arguments against the existence of gods have mainly come in the form of scientific inquiries that attempt to show there is no evidence for their existence. The Invention of Religion, however, investigates the psychological mechanisms that cause religions to originate and it sets out to prove that when humans have neither science nor religion, these mechanisms cause them to invent new religions. It also investigates how the differences (like monotheism vs. pantheism) between religions arise and how probable these differences are"--Amazon.com.

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Book Detail:
Author: Matthew Kneale
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619023717
Size: 78.52 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2014-01-14
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF An Atheist S History Of Belief eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What first prompted prehistoric man, sheltering in the shadows of deep caves, to call upon the realm of the spirits? And why has belief thrived since, shaping thousands of generations of shamans, pharaohs, Aztec priests and Mayan rulers, Jews, Buddhists, Christians, Nazis, and Scientologists? As our dreams and nightmares have changed over the millennia, so have our beliefs. The gods we created have evolved and mutated with us through a narrative fraught with human sacrifice, political upheaval and bloody wars. Belief was man's most epic labor of invention. It has been our closest companion, and has followed mankind across the continents and through history.

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Book Detail:
Author: Basil Hall Chamberlain
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Size: 60.89 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-03-16
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Invention Of A New Religion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "The Invention of a New Religion" by Basil Hall Chamberlain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Book Detail:
Author: Bill Lauritzen
Publisher: Earth360.com
ISBN: 0978754336
Size: 77.57 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2011-01-15
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Invention Of God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. How did mythology and religion first begin? Where did the ideas of “God,” “spirit” and “soul” come from? The author takes us to ancient times, showing us how early humans struggled to make sense of the world around them. Drawing on history, geology, volcanology, anthropology, chemistry, astronomy, archeology, oceanography, biology and cognitive science, the author reveals the surprising true meaning of our most sacred stories. “Bill Lauritzen is some kind of genius.” Sir Arthur C. Clarke. “Anyone interested in science and religion should read this book.” Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D., psychologist, UC Irvine. “Bill Lauritzen has systematically analyzed, from an original viewpoint, the historic sources related to the origins of religion. He summarized his research in this interesting and thought-provoking book.” Mamikon Mnatsakanian, Ph.D, astrophysicist and mathematician, California Institute of Technology.

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Book Detail:
Author: Thomas Römer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674504976
Size: 45.39 MB
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Release Date: 2015-11-04
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Invention Of God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Römer seeks to answer these enigmatic questions about the deity of the great monotheisms—Yhwh, God, or Allah—by tracing Israelite beliefs and their context from the Bronze Age to the end of the Old Testament period in the third century BCE, in a masterpiece of detective work and exposition.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Egge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136859152
Size: 32.41 MB
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Release Date: 2013-12-16
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Religious Giving And The Invention Of Karma In Theravada Buddhism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Demonstrates that Buddhists appropriated the practice, vocabulary, and ideology of sacrifice from Vedic religion, and discusses the relationship of this sacrificial discourse to ideas of karma in the Pali canon and in early Buddhism.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jason Ananda Josephson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226412337
Size: 37.26 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2012-10-03
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Invention Of Religion In Japan eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call “religion.” There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese government to sign treaties demanding, among other things, freedom of religion, the country had to contend with this Western idea. In this book, Jason Ananda Josephson reveals how Japanese officials invented religion in Japan and traces the sweeping intellectual, legal, and cultural changes that followed. More than a tale of oppression or hegemony, Josephson’s account demonstrates that the process of articulating religion offered the Japanese state a valuable opportunity. In addition to carving out space for belief in Christianity and certain forms of Buddhism, Japanese officials excluded Shinto from the category. Instead, they enshrined it as a national ideology while relegating the popular practices of indigenous shamans and female mediums to the category of “superstitions”—and thus beyond the sphere of tolerance. Josephson argues that the invention of religion in Japan was a politically charged, boundary-drawing exercise that not only extensively reclassified the inherited materials of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto to lasting effect, but also reshaped, in subtle but significant ways, our own formulation of the concept of religion today. This ambitious and wide-ranging book contributes an important perspective to broader debates on the nature of religion, the secular, science, and superstition.

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Book Detail:
Author: Stefania Palmisano
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331961097X
Size: 71.93 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2017-09-28
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Invention Of Tradition And Syncretism In Contemporary Religions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book explores manifestations of creativity in the religious domain. Specifically, the contributions focus on the nexus of the sacred and the creative, and the mechanisms of syncretism and (re)invention of tradition by which this manifestations occur. The text is divided into two sections. In the first, empirical cases of spirituality characterized by syncretistic processes are highlighted; in the second, examples which can be traced back to forms of the (re)invention of tradition are examined. The authors document possible forms of adaptations and religious enculturation. In the second, the authors demonstrate that spiritual traditions, whether ancient or historically fictitious, are suitable for reframing in the context of critical interpretative frameworks related to cultural expectations which challenge them and call their continuity into question.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mark D. Jordan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226410401
Size: 64.20 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1998-10-15
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Invention Of Sodomy In Christian Theology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this reexamination of what it means to have a tradition, Catholic and otherwise, Mark D. Jordan offers a powerful and provocative study of the sin of erotic love between men. The Invention of Sodomy reveals the theological fabrication of arguments for categorizing genital acts between members of the same sex.

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Book Detail:
Author: Brent Nongbri
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300154178
Size: 54.46 MB
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Release Date: 2013-01-22
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Before Religion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as ancient religion. Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures.

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Book Detail:
Author: Leora Batnitzky
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691160139
Size: 29.29 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2013-08-25
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF How Judaism Became A Religion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality - or a mixture of all of these? This title tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period - and why Jewish thinkers have fought as well as championed this idea.

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Book Detail:
Author: Karen Armstrong
Publisher: Gramercy
ISBN: 9780517223123
Size: 51.58 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2004
Category: God
Language: en
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Download PDF A History Of God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A study of the deity of the world's three dominant monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In a dynamic interplay between religion and society's ever-changing beliefs, values, and traditions, human beings' ideas about God have been transformed. Ideas about God have been molded to apply to the spiritual needs of the people who worship him in a particular place and time. The author explores and analyzes the development and progression of the various perceptions of God from the days of Abraham to present times--Adapted from book jacket.

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Book Detail:
Author: David F. Noble
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307828530
Size: 35.45 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2013-01-23
Category: Technology & Engineering
Language: en
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Download PDF The Religion Of Technology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Arguing against the widely held belief that technology and religion are at war with each other, David F. Noble's groundbreaking book reveals the religious roots and spirit of Western technology. It links the technological enthusiasms of the present day with the ancient and enduring Christian expectation of recovering humankind's lost divinity. Covering a period of a thousand years, Noble traces the evolution of the Western idea of technological development from the ninth century, when the useful arts became connected to the concept of redemption, up to the twentieth, when humans began to exercise God-like knowledge and powers. Noble describes how technological advance accelerated at the very point when it was invested with spiritual significance. By examining the imaginings of monks, explorers, magi, scientists, Freemasons, and engineers, this historical account brings to light an other-worldly inspiration behind the apparently worldly endeavors by which we habitually define Western civilization. Thus we see that Isaac Newton devoted his lifetime to the interpretation of prophecy. Joseph Priestley was the discoverer of oxygen and a founder of Unitarianism. Freemasons were early advocates of industrialization and the fathers of the engineering profession. Wernher von Braun saw spaceflight as a millenarian new beginning for humankind. The narrative moves into our own time through the technological enterprises of the last half of the twentieth century: nuclear weapons, manned space exploration, Artificial Intelligence, and genetic engineering. Here the book suggests that the convergence of technology and religion has outlived its usefulness, that though it once contributed to human well-being, it has now become a threat to our survival. Viewed at the dawn of the new millennium, the technological means upon which we have come to rely for the preservation and enlargement of our lives betray an increasing impatience with life and a disdainful disregard for mortal needs. David F. Noble thus contends that we must collectively strive to disabuse ourselves of the inherited religion of technology and begin rigorously to re-examine our enchantment with unregulated technological advance.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alexander Kaye
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190922745
Size: 53.69 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2020
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Invention Of Jewish Theocracy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "This book is about the attempt of Orthodox Jewish Zionists to implement traditional Jewish law (halakha) as the law of the State of Israel. These religious Zionists began their quest for a halakhic sate immediately after Israel's establishment in 1948 and competed for legal supremacy with the majority of Israeli Jews who wanted Israel to be a secular democracy. Although Israel never became a halachic state, the conflict over legal authority became the backdrop for a pervasive culture war, whose consequences are felt throughout Israeli society until today. The book traces the origins of the legal ideology of religious Zionists and shows how it emerged in the middle of the twentieth century. It further shows that the ideology, far from being endemic to Jewish religious tradition as its proponents claim, is a version of modern European jurisprudence, in which a centralized state asserts total control over the legal hierarchy within its borders. The book shows how the adoption (conscious or not) of modern jurisprudence has shaped religious attitudes to many aspects of Israeli society and politics, created an ongoing antagonism with the state's civil courts, and led to the creation of a new and increasingly powerful state rabbinate. This account is placed into wider conversations about the place of religion in democracies and the fate of secularism in the modern world. It concludes with suggestions about how a better knowledge of the history of religion and law in Israel may help ease tensions between its religious and secular citizens"--

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Book Detail:
Author: Alexander Drake
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781505541465
Size: 43.41 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2014-12-15
Category: Bible
Language: en
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Download PDF The Invention Of Christianity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Invention of Christianity is an exploration of the influence that Hellenization had on the evolution of Judaism into Christianity. It investigates how the stories of Dionysus could have evolved into that of Jesus, how rituals of the Dionysian mysteries are now found in Christianity, and the evolution of the Greek conception of the afterlife into the current Christian conception of Heaven and Hell. This book utilizes many of the ideas put forth in Drake's first book The Invention of Religion throughout its investigation. It also looks into whether the Bible really had a divine source or was invented by humans and contains two appendices charting the age of the world according to the bible and the stories contained in each of the synoptic gospels.

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