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Jiang defines religion broadly as culture, worldview, and belief system that drives action, whether medieval afterlife belief or modern education belief in China.
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Belief System
He uses school routines as an analogy for ritual: ordered actions only make sense because an underlying belief system gives them purpose.
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He uses school routines as an analogy for ritual: ordered actions only make sense because an underlying belief system gives them purpose.
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Jiang says ancestor skulls mediated communication with the spirit world and could be imagined as a way to learn secrets, making this a method of scientific discovery within that belief system.
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"...you ensure eternal salvation. Okay? Yeah, it's a religion. It's a belief system. It's a world view. Okay? Remember, religion is the culture, which..."
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"...have a really good life. Right? That's a religion. That's a belief system. It's not necessarily true. But, that's what people believe. And, that's..."
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"...about ritual is behind the ritual, there has to be a belief system, okay? So for us, the school, we believe the system is..."
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"Does that make sense? Right? Because otherwise, how do you know your religion is correct? Only by performing magic can you show that this..."
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"Another place. Another world. And therefore, having the skull around allows you to communicate with that world and learn its secrets. You understand? And..."
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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