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This book is
highly recommended reading for any serious Neo-Pagan, pan(en)theist,
nature mystic, or deep ecologist. The author examines our earliest
human experiences with hunting, war, love, sex, art, ritual, and
religious ecstasy, and ends up suggesting "neo-primitivism"
(including acknowledgement of Nature as a Goddess) as a compelling
antidote to our society's religious and ecological problems. He does
so not with interminable dry academic prose, but with an engagingly
lively and poetic flair (he is a literature professor, not a
professor of religion or anthropology). It's a combination of style
and subject matter that I myself, a a literature person fascinated
with religion, found particularly enjoyable.
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