Demian: "Among Thieves" and "Beatrice"

“Dante and Beatrice,” Henry Holiday, 1882

I struggle, often, to imagine myself in a culture in which religiosity is more the norm, whether that’s an earlier time or another part of the world. (Or even the country.) We went to church when I was a kid, my parents seemed to dig it, and we were a part of community up until I was in my early teens or so. But …