/lit/ - Literature

OP literally ignore everyone else and read The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade. He was a historian of religion and specialist in comparative religion. He paints in broad strokes creating a picture of how cosmological ideas of a grand ordering of the universe express themselves through myth and ritual. The point isn't to 'trick yourself' into subscribing to a single doctrine, it's understanding that they are all grasping at something higher than the physical realm that is impossible to describe in full. It's a perspective much easier for a person soaked in atheism and modernity to understand. You can be religious without having a religion. This book is a good intro to his work but I've since read all three volumes of his History of Religious Ideas since, they've really affected how I look at things. Please enjoy :)