Name: Liturgies of the Wild. Myths that Make Us
SKU: 64780565
Price: 399.00 ZAR
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Author: Martin Shaw
ISBN: 9781846048913

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Liturgies of the Wild. Myths that Make Us

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Rider & Co

Author

Martin Shaw

Year

2026

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24x15.6x2.5 cm

ISBN13

9781846048913

Liturgies of the Wild. Myths that Make Us

Martin Shaw (Author) · Rider & Co · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Liturgies of the Wild. Myths that Make Us"

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.