Story/Myth Reading List

Description
Books that address the psychosocial and religious function of story, myth, ritual, and play as humanity’s primary means of processing trauma by activating and enabling the human imagination to perceive new outcomes and creative possibilities, so that people can experience safety in the midst of chaos, and hope in the midst of despair.
1
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
by Mary Douglas
1,218 members
9 reviews
4
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2
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
by René Girard
432 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
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3
Violence and the Sacred
by René Girard
997 members
10 reviews
4.1
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4
The Scapegoat
by René Girard
506 members
1 review
4.1
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5
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
by René Girard
610 members
9 reviews
3.9
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6
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
by René Girard
627 members
8 reviews
4
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8
The History and Theory of Rhetoric: An Introduction
by James A. Herrick
126 members
1 review
½ 3.4
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9
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk
8,445 members
105 reviews
4.2
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10
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
by Stephen Nachmanovitch
553 members
10 reviews
4
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12
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
by Lewis Hyde
1,641 members
13 reviews
4
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13
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
by Lewis Hyde
1,046 members
8 reviews
4
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14
Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
by Marie-Louise von Franz
461 members
3 reviews
4.1
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15
Metaphors We Live By
by George Lakoff
2,838 members
19 reviews
3.9
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16
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
10,714 members
84 reviews
4.1
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17
The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell
8,706 members
72 reviews
4.2
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18
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
by Joseph Campbell
596 members
5 reviews
½ 4.4
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20
Strangers, Gods and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness
by Richard Kearney
106 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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21
Jesus Christ and Mythology
by Rudolf Bultmann
733 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
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23
Naming the Powers: The Language of Power in the New Testament
by Walter Wink
331 members
4 reviews
4.1
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24
Unmasking the Powers: The Invisible Forces That Determine Human Existence
by Walter Wink
304 members
4 reviews
4.2
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25
Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination
by Walter Wink
527 members
5 reviews
4.2
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