Contemporary non-Christian and para-Christian cults and sects

This major work offers an historical description and systematic analysis of the root causes of this global economic crisis, which the authors understand as a crisis of western civilization, and provides a comprehensive solution based on theological social justice.

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This book delves into the critical question of how counseling can help individuals navigate and resolve these struggles.

Die hier wiedergegebene Übersetzung des ›Tibetischen Totenbuches‹ aus dem Tibetischen verwendet erstmals eine Terminologie, die dem Prozeß des Sterbens gerecht wird, ohne an irreführenden Reminiszenzen an eine christliche Begrifflichkeit zu kranken.

Using Spirituality in Psychotherapy: The Heart Led Approach to Clinical Practice offers a means for therapists to integrate a spiritual perspective into their clinical practice.

At once controversial and intriguing, Spiritualism has spread from the United States to become a global movement.

Barbara Weisberg's Talking to the Dead blends biography and social history in this revelatory story of the family responsible for the rise of Spiritualism.

Originally published in 1978, The Occult Sourcebook has been compiled primarily for the many people who are for the first time becoming engrossed by the numerous and often confusing possibilities underlying the occult sciences.

When Race, Religion, and Sport Collide tells the story of Brandon Davies' dismissal from Brigham Young University's NCAA playoff basketball team to illustrate the thorny intersection of religion, race, and sport at BYU and beyond.

Originally published in 1974 Intimacy and Ritual is a sympathetic study of spiritualist activities and their relation to the practitioners' secular lives.

Lachen als spirituelle Erfahrung – ein Gedanke, der überraschend und zugleich tief berührend ist.

This book describes the myriad components of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) region.

2012 – ein Schicksalsjahr für unseren Planeten?

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Originally published as an English translation in 1981, The Middle English Mystics is a crucial contribution to the study of the literature of English mysticism.

The Hindu thinker Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was and remains an important figure both within India, and in the West, where he was notable for preaching Vedanta.

This book is a study of contemporary spirituality as it is practiced in the world today, characterized by its secular and inclusive nature, and applied to art and art education.

For Christians, practicing Ubuntu means entering deeply into the compassionate, forgiving love of Gospel.

This book addresses the issue of de-spiritualization in education through an interdisciplinary lens.

This book brings together ethnographic field research on four permacultural ecovillages in Brazil to highlight the importance of spirituality and ecological epistemologies as key analytical tools.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Maya und entdecken Sie die tief verwurzelte Spiritualität und die komplexe Götterwelt dieser beeindruckenden antiken Zivilisation.

From the mass weddings of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church to the ritual suicides at Heaven's Gate, charismatic cults and their devotees have become facts of American life.

The seventeenth-century poet and divine Thomas Traherne finds innocence in every stage of existence.

Tap into your best self and find ways to express your true divine nature with a year's worth of seasonal mantras.

This book provides a new sociological account of contemporary religious phenomena such as channelling, holistic healing, meditation and divination, which are usually classed as part of a New Age Movement.

This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern practice of religion.

Exploring what does and what does not constitute pilgrimage, Redefining Pilgrimage draws together a wide variety of disciplines including politics, anthropology, history, religion and sociology.

Critical attention to the Victorian supernatural has flourished over the last twenty-five years.

This volume presents interdisciplinary, intercultural, and interreligious approaches directed toward the articulation of a pneumatological theology in its broadest sense, especially in terms of attempting to conceive of a spirit-filled world.

Deep in the heart of spiritual and cultural traditions lies the enduring mystery of Shambala, a hidden kingdom symbolizing ultimate enlightenment and harmony.

The Church of Scientology is one of the most recognizable American-born new religions, but perhaps the least understood.

An international panel of experts have contributed to create the first comprehensive guide to spiritual care focussing on the palliative care setting from neonatal to aged care, combining the theoretical underpinnings of spirituality research with practical applications for its introduction into patient care.

Inspired by the neoliberal paradigm that transposes religious behaviors into a religious marketplace framed by consumerist and capitalist models, this volume draws on ethnographic fieldwork to discuss the assemblage between the well-being trope and the rise of new spiritualities, as well as their deep permeation within mainstream culture.

This book examines the nearly 400-year tradition of Quaker engagements with mystical ideas and sources.

This book explores border crossing among pragmatism, spirituality and society.

This is a memoir of the early years of a well-known Chicano scholar whose work and activism were motivated by his Mormon faith.

This book calls for an expanded vision of holistic education that emphasizes togetherness and harmony through the discovery of oneself, others, and the larger society.

Using Spirituality in Psychotherapy: The Heart Led Approach to Clinical Practice offers a means for therapists to integrate a spiritual perspective into their clinical practice.

Die Anazazi, einstige Bewohner des amerikanischen Südwestens, hinterließen ein beeindruckendes Erbe aus grandiosen Felsbehausungen, geheimnisvollen Zeremonialbauten und faszinierenden Petroglyphen.

Vegan Witchcraft is the first book to blend theories of animal rights, feminism, and modern witchcraft in pursuit of total liberation.

Performing a critical analysis of new scientific research on religious and spiritual phenomena, Grassie takes a two-staged phenomenological approach working from the 'outside in' and the 'bottom up' without privileging at the outset any religious traditions or philosophical assumptions.

The search for an adequate understanding of the New Age phenomenon is fraught with difficulties when examined within the perspectives of sociology of religion which have shed light on religion in modernity.

Why did ancient philosophers consult oracles, write about them, and consider them to be an important part of philosophical thought and practice?

This book deconstructs and debunks the lucrative and widespread marriage of quantum physics with pop-spirituality while tracing this pernicious strain of pseudoscience to its source: the founders of quantum mechanics themselves.