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Jiang defines religion as collective belief or worldview that answers where we come from, why we are here, and where we are going; it does not require temples.
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Jiang defines religion as collective belief or worldview that answers where we come from, why we are here, and where we are going; it does not require temples.
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Old Europe's social energy is described as flowing into tombs, shrines, temples, pottery, sculptures, creativity, and stability rather than war.
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"...around the world, so it's difficult for them to build up temples, right? Right."
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"Right. So religions don't require temples. Religion is just collective belief. So as I say, as I keep on saying in this class, all..."
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"Instead, they built magnificent tombs, shrines, and temples, comfortable house in moderately sized villages, and created superb pottery and sculptures. This was a long..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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