Create Your Own Religion (A How-To Book without Instructions)

“One of the most refreshing, humorous, and radically honest books about practical and comparative religion this reviewer has ever come across.” —Library Journal (starred review)
 
“Daniele Bolelli is in the house. Minds will be blown. Lives will be changed.” —Joe Rogan, host, The Joe Rogan Experience
 
Create Your Own Religion is a call to arms—an open invitation to question all the values, beliefs, and worldviews that humanity has so far held as sacred in order to find the answers we need to the very practical problems facing us.
 
Writer, philosopher, and professor of comparative religion, Daniele Bolelli, leads the reader through three thousand years of mythology, misogyny, misinformation, and the flat-out lies about “revealed truth” that continue to muddle our ability to live a peaceful life, free of guilt and shame and the ultimate fear of death.
 
“Our worldviews are in desperate need of some housecleaning,” says Bolelli. “We enter the 21st century still carrying on our backs the prejudices and ways of thinking of countless past generations. What worked for them may or may not still be of use, so it is our job to make sure to save the tools that can help us and let go of the dead weight.”
 
“With a cheerful, good-natured smile, Daniele Bolelli torpedoes the often luxurious but spiritually leaky battleships that sail under the various flags of the world’s organized religions.”
—Tom Robbins, New York Times bestselling author

“Bolelli’s direct confrontation with dogma without giving an inch and without prescribing a new dogma is about as fresh as it gets.”
—Mike Vallely, skateboarder, musician, and actor