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Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the talk page for details. | Open source religion is based on the extension of open source principles to the areas of religious experience, religious cosmology, and religious systems of belief. As such, open source religions are part of an attempt to extend the open source concept from purely technical open source software via a more generalized open source movement into open source culture. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...
Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...
The open source movement is an offshoot of the free software movement that advocates open-source software as an alternative label for free software, primarily on pragmatic rather than philosophical grounds. ...
Open Source Culture (OSC) is a term that derives from open source software and the open source movement. ...
In contrast to open source projects, the formation and maintenance of religious phenomena has almost always been closed, authoritarian, and change-resistant. Central to the notion of open source religion is the non-proprietary, decentralized, and user-determined evolving nature of all open source projects. All significant examples of explicit attempts to develop open source religions are Internet based and thus recent phenomena.
Other differences between Open Source Religion and Traditional Religions Another specific advantage claimed for some open source religions (e.g., Yoism, which also claims to be "the world's first open source religion,") is that it breaks the link between "birth location happenstance" and belief. As has often been noted, the vast majority of people believe in the religion they were "born into." While it is not claimed that open source religion would completely mitigate parental impact on the development of a child's beliefs, it is claimed that the very nature of an open source system of belief would make local religions more ecumenical and open to ideas from all over the world. The principle espoused is twofold: One, an open source religion taught to a child would, by its open source nature, almost always include ideas that came from outside of the local community. Two, in the act of "indoctrinating" a child into an open source religion, the child would simultaneously be taught that truth is not fixed or beyond improvement with ideas from others. Yoism claims to be the worlds first open source religion. ...
These ideas are expressed in the writings of Yoism, in which they claim that their version of open source religion
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- ...endeavors to harness the power of Internet communication to cultivate and develop the most thoughtful, meaningful, and moving religious inspirations that have ever existed. No longer must humanity be chained to the limited beliefs found in the neighborhood of each individual's birth and growth. The Internet enables a spiritual community to form in which the best in human thought and insight can be available to everyone, wherever they live. (from the Yoism website)
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- Yoans don't bind their allegiance to any spiritual figure, such as Jesus, Mohammed, or Buddha. Instead, their sense of authority emerges from within the group in the form of voting, consensus building -- what they call "open source religion." Everyone in the group has a chance to propose ideas about Yoism, as it is called. If ideas get voted in, they become inscribed in the Book of Yo, the movement's core teaching (Matt Gunderson, The Boston Globe, January 11, 2004)
History of Open Source Religions Yoism was launched as an open source religion in the mid-1990's. Around 2001, Yoans began to explore ways to modify the Wikipedia model of collaborative editing in order to apply it to religious meme system development. This resulted in their collaboratively developed Book of Yo and the Yoism website. Yoans are currently setting up a version of the Book of Yo for editing using the MediaWiki software. The term meme (pronounced in IPA; from the Greek word μνήμη for memory) first came into popular use with the publication of the book The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins in 1976. ...
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Around that same time, in 2001, Douglas Rushkoff organized the first Reboot summit that took place in 2002. "The object of the game, for me, was to recontextualize Judaism as an entirely Open Source proposition," (Rushkoff [1]). The publication of Rushkoff's book, Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, in 2003 spawned the creation of the Open Source Judaism movement. Open Source Judaism, in turn, has spawned other open source projects, such as the Open Source Haggadah.
Limits of Open Source Religion As with all open source projects, there are limits to the decentralization of control. Linux and the Wikipedia, two of the most successful open source projects, have "benevolent dictators" (Linus Torvalds and Jimbo Wales) that can make decisions in times of intractable conflict and who control the general direction and parameters of the project. Another way to think about the apparent contradiction between controlling limits within an open source project, is to consider the invevitability that any project have some defining form which is not subject to open source modification. The open source aspect of the project can only occur within the boundaries defined by the open source immune aspects of a project. Examples of such non-modifiable aspects of open source projects are the mediums employed (Linux is software and will never be a narrative text-based project, as compared to Wikipedia) and the defining open source nature of the projects (neither can become closed source, proprietary projects without breaking down). Jump to: navigation, search Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ...
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Just so, some open source religions have overarching contextual themes that are beyond open source modification. For example, a project aimed at creating an open source Judaism has different unmodifiable constraints than one focused on creating an open source theology of the Gospels (see External Links, below).
Usage note The term "Open Source Religion" is also used to refer to the fervor of practitioners within the open source software movement. While this could be developed into a spiritual/religious practice, thus far this has not occurred and the two usages of the phrase should not be confused.
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External links to published references to Open Source Religion - Article in The Boston Globe describing Yoism, as an Open Source Religion
- Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, a book by Douglas Rushkoff, reconceptualizing Judaism as an Open Source Religion
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