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Small red-roofed temples and golden Buddhas perched on steep mountain slopes are proof of the Taiwanese attachment to veneration of the gods. In cities and towns, people come to pray and seek the hope of a better life, whether Buddhist or Taoist, or even Christian or Aborigines. Ceremonies and processions punctuate the calendar. Giant costumes and [...]

For French-British anthropologist Maurice Bloch of the London School of Economics, religion is a product of imagination. Moreover, the reason why humans possess the concept of religion and practice it is because ‘they’re the only creatures to have evolved imagination.’ This capacity for imagination which began to develop 40-50,000 years ago, [...]