“Religion” and “Myth” have both been important and consistent themes in much of my intellectual work over the years. Whether viewed as ‘sacred’, ‘profane’, or ‘apocryphal’ their content informs identity and culture and their structure illuminates the ways in which our species conceives of its reality. I believe that there is ‘religious truth’ and ‘mythological insight’ to be found not only in the primary texts that are often pointed to as examples of those genres or the secondary explorations of scholars in those fields but also (and perhaps most importantly) by applying all of the above as a lens through which to view the stories, structures, and behaviors of our everyday popcultural existence.
I have set aside the blogs “potentialRELIGION” and “potentialMYTHOLOGY” as venues in which to further explore these topics.
