Blood & Religion - why?

[SummerMorning]

Joe makes a great big request here. If you feel up to it, you will find Joe a good one to have such a discussion with. Just saying.

Joe, I'm not at all sure Summer Morning has English as a milk language. I would relish such a discussion, though, all the same.

I hear you. And no, English isn't my only language... I'm bilingual because from the ages of 6 to 15 I went to an English school in Tanzania. My other language is Slovenian. So I tend to muddle both of them a bit, here and there, now and again.

I'd love to have this discussion... I'd love to discuss with gauche as well. The theories are very interesting (and some of the 'just so' theories are very funny as well). But the fact is I'm going on a road trip in about, oh, 30 minutes. Which means I won't be online for the next 3 weeks.

In lieu of explaining the theory myself I could recommend Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Berger's The Sacred Canopy, Girard's Violence and the Sacred and Juergensmeyer Terror in the Mind of God. But I won't recommend them, because I doubt you'd feel like wading through all that.



If you like, I can resurrect this discussion when I get back.

 

[BlackShanglan]

"The blood is the life." -- Mr. Renfield (possibly speaking on behalf of certain foreign aristocracy)