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China as Neolithic Exemplar

The actor David Carradine may have led a troubled life but he experienced no such trouble as Kwai Chang Caine, a Buddhist monk on the move in the old American west. From 1972-1975, the Kung Fu series...

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Etruscan Rite & Roman Religion

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” With this famous sentence, Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins his masterful critique of political power. Less well known is another sentence from The...

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From Paleolithic Diviners to Axial Prophets

A person of many astute observations, one of Robert Bellah’s most astute is his refrain (when talking about the history of religions) that “nothing is ever lost.” By this I take Bellah to mean that at...

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Random Superstitions

Sometimes, when making decisions, it’s better not to decide. Or, when faced with a choice, to choose on the basis of chance. When the set of possible outcomes for any given decision and consequent...

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