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Subject: Re: Mother/Child Mythology
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In article <Jan.16.04.35.25.1991.10034@aramis.rutgers.edu>, dragon!cms@gatech.edu writes:
> What Campbell actually believed, I don't know, but it was paradoxical. 
> But, then, so is Christianity, in many ways.
> 

for a while he was a fervant espouser of a spiritualized hinduism,
then he visited India and was totally disgusted so he gave that one up.

if i were to try to pin down Campbell's religion, i'd call it a
Jungian pantheism: there's a jouney to God built into our very
nature, but he wouldn't trust any religion or any definition of God
to give any more than a shadowy approximation of the truth. And his
scholar's mentality tended towards a condescending mockery, i think.

  ando.