myth

Exile and homecoming.--Education for serendipity.--Reflections on a peach-seed monkey or storytelling and the death of God.--Diary of a jubilee year.--The importance of being carnal; notes for a visceral theology.

Presents a guide to the study of myth, featuring a number of definitions of myth and mythology, examples of myths in the English and non-English speaking worlds, and discussion of transmission and metamorphosis of mythological images and stories.

Specifies five major myths that are paramount to the American experience, among them the myth of the Chosen Nation, the myth of the Christian Nation, and the myth of the Innocent Nation. Argues that by accepting these myths America risks the "egalitarian promise" of the Declaration of Independence.

Scholar Joseph Campbell sits down with journalist Bill Moyers for a discussion about how myths reveal truths about the human experience.

Collection of legends and myths from around the world offering widely differing aspects of mythic consciousness.