Cold
Cold
Victoria Dougherty
The Role of Rituals and Faith in the Stories of Our Lives
17 minutes Posted Apr 2, 2023 at 5:24 pm.
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This week in The Cold, we are diving into our most primal selves. I think it is nearly impossible to overestimate the role of ritual and faith in how we see the world - in the stories we consume, we tell ourselves, and we tell others. This is as true of the atheist as it is the believer, because it is the way human beings have made sense of the world since the dawn of time. We see it in every fiction genre, every archetype, and it's fascinating to contemplate.

Victoria's stories (and yes, all of them are in some way grounded in faith - even the darkest ones, the most sensual ones: Amazon.com: Victoria Dougherty: books, biography, latest update

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This episode is also available as a blog post: https://victoriadougherty.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/faith-and-the-nine-year-old-skeptic/


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