Reading William T. Cavanaugh, The Uses of Idolatry. đź“š His The Myth of Religious Violence was one of my more heavily highlighted reads.
Reading William T. Cavanaugh, The Uses of Idolatry. đź“š His The Myth of Religious Violence was one of my more heavily highlighted reads.
@ReaderJohn Nice. My copy was supposed to be delivered last week but it’s been bouncing around “facilities.” Excited to read it
@ReaderJohn Curious to hear your thoughts as you make your way through. Myth was also quite generative in my thinking a number of years ago; would be interesting to revisit now...
@bbowman Just finished the introduction last night. In some ways, Cavanaugh acknowledges, he's working out the same insights as Myth, perhaps at a more fundamental level. The "idols" of the present book are (much?) the same as the non-religious causes of violence in the former.
@bbowman First foray into the meat of the book, some of it felt very dense — more closely argued than I'm accustomed to reading any more. I may need to pay less attention to trees, more to forest. Excerpt to follow.