Martin Shaw: Liturgies of the Wild, Gebunden
Liturgies of the Wild
- Myths that Make Us
- Publisher:
- Ebury Publishing, 02/2026
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781846048913
- Item number:
- 12323605
- Volume:
- 256 Pages
- Weight:
- 400 g
- Format:
- 222 x 138 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 5.2.2026
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
From "one of the greatest storytellers we have" (Robert Bly), an urgent invitation to allow the oldest stories - and the Greatest Story - to reshape our own.
There's an old Irish belief that if you aren't wrapped in a cloak of story you will be unprepared for what the world will hurl at you. You remain adolescent at just the moment a culture worth its salt requires you to become a real, grown, human being.
In Liturgies of the Wild , acclaimed mythographer, storyteller and Christian thinker Martin Shaw argues that we live in a myth-impoverished age and that such poverty has left us vulnerable to stories that may not wish us well. Drawing on the "ancient technologies" of myths and initiatory rites, Shaw provides a road to wholeness, maturity and connection. He teaches us to read a myth the way it wants to be read; provides vivid retellings of tales powerful enough to carry you through life's travails; and shows you how to gather and reshape your own thrown-away stories. Most vividly, he shares how these ancient technologies led him-unexpectedly-to Christ, "the True Myth," by way of a thirty-year journey and a 101-night vigil in a Dartmoor forest.
Combining scholarly erudition with nimble storytelling in the tradition of C. S. Lewis and J. R.R. Tolkien, Liturgies of the Wild is a thrilling counsel of resistance and delight in the face of many modern monsters.