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  • In his book “Cat’s Cradle,” author Kurt Vonnegut describes a fictional religion called Bokononism, which describes a theory concerning social relations.

    Democracy’s Renaissance Online 2004

  • In his book “Cat’s Cradle,” author Kurt Vonnegut describes a fictional religion called Bokononism, which describes a theory concerning social relations.

    ideonexus.com » 2004 » November 2004

  • The holy sacrament of Bokononism was a kind of foot massage; the prophet Bokonon himself declared that all his writings were lies designed to make people feel happier; in the prophet's sayings, as Vonnegut presented them, there was a strong Zen element.

    And So It Went Tom Shippey 2011

  • He invented phenomena like chrono-synclastic infundibula (places in the universe where all truths fit neatly together) as well as religions, like the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent and Bokononism (based on the books of a black British Episcopalian from Tobago "filled with bittersweet lies," a narrator says).

    GreenCine Daily: Kurt Vonnegut, 1922 - 2007. 2007

  • He invented phenomena like chrono-synclastic infundibula (places in the universe where all truths fit neatly together) as well as religions, like the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent and Bokononism (based on the books of a black British Episcopalian from Tobago “filled with bittersweet lies,” a narrator says).

    Archive 2007-04-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • The great joke of Bokononism is that it forces meaning on what's essentially chaos, and Bokonon himself admits that his writings are lies.

    kemo666 Diary Entry kemo666 2007

  • În cartea sa "Cat's Cradle", autorul Kurt Vonnegut descrie o religie fictiv numit Bokononism , care descrie o teorie cu privire la relaţiile sociale.

    ideonexus.com »2004» November 2004

  • He was also a passionate ethical humanist who regarded all communal religious expression as so much Bokononism (a fictional religion in Cat's Cradle that exists for the purpose of manufacturing harmless falsehoods).

    Theolog 2009

  • He invented phenomena like chrono-synclastic infundibula (places in the universe where all truths fit neatly together) as well as religions, like the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent and Bokononism (based on the books of a black British Episcopalian from Tobago “filled with bittersweet lies,” a narrator says).”

    Kurt Vonnegut Passes Away » Fanboy.com 2007

  • He invented phenomena like chrono-synclastic infundibula (places in the universe where all truths fit neatly together) as well as religions, like the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent and Bokononism (based on the books of a black British Episcopalian from Tobago

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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