My quest is definitely for a book written in an idiom and language I
understand. I am looking for a book that makes its arguments using
contemporary academic tools. In this idiom, words like 'logic', 'history'
and 'academic's are not slights. Which is why John Stratton Hawley's book
sounded promisi
Historians and academicians of religion can occasionally be guilty of
approaching an intuitive and lived experience largely beyond the grasp of
the intellect with the cold stare of logic and ambition. They are like a
computer generated Mondrian, or a film set of Auschwitz, they don't carry
the life
