Mythology & Religion
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How humans have told the story of the sacred — and read sex, sin, and the self through it. Christianity's long argument with the body (MacCulloch, Fredriksen, Pagels, the Pauline scholarship), the comparative reach of myth (Campbell, Apuleius), and first-person testimony from inside religious life. Read for the questions, not the verdicts.
- Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity77Diarmaid MacCulloch · 2024
- Sin: The Early History of an Idea88Paula Fredriksen · 2012
- Adam, Eve, and the Serpent88Elaine Pagels · 1988
- Confessions69Augustine of Hippo · 397
- Paul and Palestinian Judaism (40th Anniversary Edition)59E. P. Sanders · 2017
- An Anomalous Jew: Paul Among Jews, Greeks, and Romans59Michael F. Bird · 2016
- Paul and Matthew Among Jews and Gentiles: Essays in Honor of Terence L. Donaldson59Ronald Charles (editor) · 2021
- The Power of Myth59Joseph Campbell · 1988
- The Golden Ass (Metamorphoses)53Apuleius · 2
- The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy (selected nonfiction)59Leo Tolstoy · 2016
- Under the Banner of Heaven88Jon Krakauer · 2003
- Holy Ghost Girl88Donna M. Johnson · 2011
- Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir91D. J. Waldie · 1996