Create Your Own Religion
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Create Your Own Religion

A How-To Book Without Instructions

  1. 354 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Create Your Own Religion

A How-To Book Without Instructions

About this book

"One of the most refreshing, humorous, and radically honest books about practical and comparative religion this reviewer has ever come across."— Library Journal (starred review)
 
Create Your Own Religion is a call to arms—an open invitation to question all the values, beliefs, and worldviews that humanity has so far held as sacred in order to find the answers we need to the very practical problems facing us.
 
Writer, philosopher, and professor of comparative religion, Daniele Bolelli, leads the reader through three thousand years of mythology, misogyny, misinformation, and the flat-out lies about "revealed truth" that continue to muddle our ability to live a peaceful life, free of guilt and shame and the ultimate fear of death.
 
"Our worldviews are in desperate need of some housecleaning," says Bolelli. "We enter the 21st century still carrying on our backs the prejudices and ways of thinking of countless past generations. What worked for them may or may not still be of use, so it is our job to make sure to save the tools that can help us and let go of the dead weight."
 
"With a cheerful, good-natured smile, Daniele Bolelli torpedoes the often luxurious but spiritually leaky battleships that sail under the various flags of the world's organized religions."—Tom Robbins, New York Times bestselling author
"Daniele Bolelli is in the house. Minds will be blown. Lives will be changed."—Joe Rogan, comedian and podcast host
"Bolelli's direct confrontation with dogma without giving an inch and without prescribing a new dogma is about as fresh as it gets."—Mike Vallely, skateboarder, musician, and actor

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS
  5. CHAPTER 1: A CALL TO ARMS: CREATE YOUR OWN RELIGION
  6. CHAPTER 2: A CALL TO ARMS: THE SEQUEL
  7. CHAPTER 3: THE INTANGIBLES: GOD
  8. CHAPTER 4: THE INTANGIBLES: DEATH AND AFTERLIFE (MAYBE . . .)
  9. CHAPTER 5: THE MOTHER OF ALL CHOICES: INCLUSIVE OR EXCLUSIVE RELIGIONS
  10. CHAPTER 6: ON A ROUND BALL FLOATING IN SPACE: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMANS, NATURE, AND THE UNIVERSE
  11. CHAPTER 7: BODY AND SENSES
  12. CHAPTER 8: SEX, SEX, AND MORE SEX
  13. CHAPTER 9: KILLING PATRIARCHY AND REWRITING GENDER ROLES
  14. CHAPTER 10: INCREDIBLY SHRINKING CAMELS AND ZEN MOONS: WEALTH IN THE EYES OF WORLD RELIGIONS
  15. CHAPTER 11: TOWARD A GLOBAL IDENTITY
  16. CHAPTER 12: I COULD ONLY BELIEVE IN A GOD WHO CAN LAUGH: WHY RELIGION NEEDS TO BE FUN
  17. CHAPTER 13: HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW?
  18. CHAPTER 14: ON A TIGHTROPE STRETCHED BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL: MORALITY WITHOUT FASCISM; MORE HEART AND FEWER LAWS
  19. CHAPTER 15: TOWARD A PARADOX-FLAVORED CONSCIOUSNESS
  20. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  21. NOTES
  22. About the Author
  23. Bonus Material