"A fusion of theology and autobiography." Harvey Cox's The Secular City and The Feast of Fools have made him the best-known and most iconoclastic writer on religion in America today. The story he tells here is in part his own spiritual autobiography: the record of the journey from the "tribal village," where he was born and raised, through the ambiguities and demands of the age in which we now live--a journey that Cox shared and completed, only to begin a longer, more arduous journey toward the "city of light," a synthesis of religion and liberation that is at the heart of his concern. It is a vision that contains both Fritz Perls and Fellini, Freud and Marx, Esalen and Quetzalcoatl, the modern city and the nostalgic, rural, small-town past--a vision that expresses itself in such forms as a "Mariachi mass" in Cuernavaca, Mexico, or a Byzantine Easter ceremony in Boston, whose saints include Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Emiliano Zapata, that encompasses Krishna and Christ, "The Third World," and Malvern, Pennsylvania. Cox sees in religion the impulse of people to listen to the stories that come from within the human experience and to add their own to the collective tribal legend as the last chance to save themselves from the triumph of the "electronic icon"--the vast combination of technology, propaganda, exploitation, and imperialism that threatens to shut out the vital light that comes from within oneself--from back cover.