借助杂技噱头能否创立宗教？

At long last, an English language enter history featuring prominent performing fakirs— Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult by Ra- phael Cormack—has been published. The sensation started in Paris in 1925. Tahra Bey usually claimed to be an Egyptian mystic: he pierced his body and stopped his pulse at will, amazing doctors. He and the fakirs who followed also performed other feats, most prom- inently an onstage version of being bur- ied alive, which Tahra said was possible because of a “cataleptic state.” He made a lot of money and became world fa- mous despite rarely performing abroad. …