Myth and Ritual in Christianity

Name: Myth and Ritual in Christianity
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ISBN: 9780807013755

ISBN-10: 0807013757

ISBN-13: 9780807013755

Edition: 1971 (Reprint)

Authors: Alan Watts

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"Our main object will be to describe one of the most incomparably beautiful myths that has ever flowered from the mind of man, or from the unconscious processes which shape it and which are in some sense more than man.... This is, furthermore, to be a description and not a history of Christian Mythology.... After description, we shall attempt an interpretation of the myth along the general lines of the philosophia perennis, in order to bring out the truly catholic or universal character of the symbols, and to share the delight of discovering a fountain of wisdom in a realm where so many have long ceased to expect anything but a desert of platitudes." --from the Prologue

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 1971
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 6/1/1971
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Alan Watts, a countercultural icon and author of more than twenty books, was also a spiritual philosopher, scholar of Buddhism, Anglican minister, and chaplain at Northwestern University. He died in 1973.