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Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

8 best books like Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor (Joseph Campbell): Memories, Dreams, Reflections, The Little Match Girl, The Way of Zen, Princess and the Pea, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, The Infinite Game, A Short History of Myth, Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion

Memories, Dreams, Reflections
AuthorC.G. Jung
ISBN0679723951
In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his life story. At regular intervals he had conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, and collaborated with her in the preparation of the text based on these talks. On occasion, he was moved to...
The Little Match Girl
AuthorHans Christian Andersen
ISBN0439643635
Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne = The little match Girl, Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Match Girl (Danish: Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The little girl with the matchsticks") is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's...
The Way of Zen
AuthorAlan W. Watts
ISBN0375705104
In his definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts explains the principles and practices of this ancient religion to Western readers. With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible...
Princess and the Pea
AuthorHans Christian Andersen
The Princess and the Pea is a famous story from 1835, by Hans Christian Andersen, which has been adapted and retold numerous times. The original is quite short, and clearly satirical and tongue in cheek. Really it is a one-idea story, in which an obviously ridiculous situation is contrived, to test whether...
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
AuthorSue Monk Kidd
The acclaimed spiritual memoir from the author of The Secret Life of Bees.

I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised and, in fact, a little terrified when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening.

Sue...
The Infinite Game
AuthorSimon Sinek
Do you know how to play the game you're in?

In finite games, like football or chess, the players are known, the rules are fixed, and the endpoint is clear. The winners and losers are easily identified.

In infinite games, like business or politics or life itself, the players come and go,...
A Short History of Myth
AuthorKaren Armstrong
“Human beings have always been mythmakers.” So begins best-selling writer Karen Armstrong’s concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up...
Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
AuthorJonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
ISBN0830845348
"I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided."

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same...
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