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Loading... 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know: Religion (edition 2011)by Daniele Bolelli
Work Information50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know: Religion by Daniele Bolelli
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I loved this book! Bolelli explores the story behind world religion. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, Atheists, Shamans...even Pastafarians get a mention. Some stories are cute. Others are just disturbing. All of them enlightening. Highly recommended for those who don't take religion seriously. Another great feature is Bolelli provides suggestions for further reading at the end of the book for those who want to dig deeper. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Adding to its popular 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know series, Disinformation has teamed with Daniele Bolelli - writer, professor of comparative religion, and renowned martial arts practitioner and philosopher - to tackle an ever more serious and important topic: popular misconceptions about religion. Among other revelations: Carpocrates, an early Christian, argued that sex orgies were a key to heaven. Prostitution was a religious duty in Mesopotamian temples. The two major Chinese religions (Taoism and Confucianism) are completely at odds with each other and yet are often practiced together. Despite having persecuted Jews for 2,000 years, Christian fundamentalists are Israel's biggest supporters. Capturing just the right balance of in-depth knowledge, respect, humor and irreverence, Bolelli takes an ecumenical approach to the task, revealing surprising, shocking, and little-known facts about the "big three" religions but also many more, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, and, of course, the increasingly popular non-religion: atheism. No library descriptions found. |
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