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This book argues for the diversity of religions and the human element in the development of religion.
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.
Have you ever wondered what Jesus would have patented? Perhaps He never would have patented anything, but many of His followers have patented ingenious inventions related to the Christian faith. Patents have been granted for artificial Christmas trees, fire extinguishing ornaments, Santa Claus detection kits, Easter egg decorating kits, steeples, pews, holy-water fonts, communion cup fillers, baptismal garments, rosaries, Christian board games, Jesus dolls, and scores of others. This book presents 101 ingenious and interesting patented inventions related to the Christian faith.
Cases of stigmata, weeping and bleeding icons, the mystifying Shroud of Turin and the Marian Apparitions; all of which are just a fraction of thousands of reported religious miracles. The scientifi c seeks for rational explanations while the faithful accepts them without doubt and hesitation. Penning one fi ne piece of work after the other under a pseudonym, Youth the Writer continues to englighten the modern man with his groundbreaking philosophical series of books. This time around, he sheds light to the hidden affair behind religiious miracles in Inventions and Deception, the seventh in the series. Like all the other six installments, Inventions and Deception follows the conversation, taking place via the authors dreams, between the Professor and Ace. These two beings live in two different times and places but regularly meet to discuss everything there is know about life and its inner workings through the Accelerating Life, an intensive education course that will make each student wiser; allowing them to learn from eighty-eight life experiences in very short time. Through a series of penetrating questions and incisive responses between instructor and student, Inventions and Deception posits that inventions, in the beginning, has become an excellent marketing tool for ancient temples. This early inventors needed support to continue experimenting, and some of them asked the temples masters for such support in exchange it will be displayed in the temples where people can come and see it. The temple masters quickly found out that the people thought of such invention as Gods work, and they were telling other people about it to visit. The temple masters started to invest more in the inventors for exclusive right of the inventions as well as confi dentiality of the project. Soon, greed led the temple masters to kill some of the inventors to make sure that no other temple will have what they have. It was greed and ugliness that made some of the inventors run away and think of the truth of the temple.Some of those inventors become the fi rst unbelievers, and some of them even started a hidden war against the temples. Inventions, later on, become a tool to uncover deception. Youth the Writer has certainly concocted an intelligent read in Inventions and Deception. Apart from discussing how men were deceived to believing the supposedly miracles by the divine and otherworldly, Youth the Writer also tackles polemical issues such as revolutions, political parties, marriage, and good versus evil. The reader is invited and encouraged to think more than the usual and question what has been thought to be true since the world began.
Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Römer seeks to answer these 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. That we can address such enigmatic questions at all may come as a surprise. But as Römer makes clear, a wealth of evidence allows us to piece together a reliable account of the origins and evolution of the god of Israel. Römer draws on a long tradition of historical, philological, and exegetical work and on recent discoveries in archaeology and epigraphy to locate the origins of Yhwh in the early Iron Age, when he emerged somewhere in Edom or in the northwest of the Arabian peninsula as a god of the wilderness and of storms and war. He became the sole god of Israel and Jerusalem in fits and starts as other gods, including the mother goddess Asherah, were gradually sidelined. But it was not until a major catastrophe—the destruction of Jerusalem and Judah—that Israelites came to worship Yhwh as the one god of all, creator of heaven and earth, who nevertheless proclaimed a special relationship with Judaism. A masterpiece of detective work and exposition by one of the world’s leading experts on the Hebrew Bible, The Invention of God casts a clear light on profoundly important questions that are too rarely asked, let alone answered.
This book is not intended to drive people away from their religion, or denounce their beliefs in whatever God they believe in. It is simply aimed at waking up the Godly spirit we have all been infused with, recognizing it for what it is, and putting it to its ultimate use. Since the "invention" of religion and its twisted concept of God, human beings have been taught that they are of a subservient nature, and therefore servants to their God. It is as if man and woman beget children for their own gratification, and not so those children can forge their own path and destiny in life. Once the human spirit is liberated and lifted to the Godly heights it was destined to reach by its creator, wonderful things will happen, the least of them is true happiness on this earth.