Disenchantment: A New Model for Conceptualizing Religious Symbolism

Disenchantment is a theory of religious symbolism that bridges the gap between the faithful and the atheist. The approach accomplishes this by taking religious symbolism seriously, tieing reoccurring archetypes found in the symbol systems of various cultures to a historical event, thus avoiding the logical problems that inevitably arise when metaphors are taken literally. The theory grounds major religious archetypes connecting them to a profoundly significant event, the paradigm shift from...