Contemporary non-Christian and para-Christian cults and sects

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

At the core of African American religion's response to social inequalities has been a symbiotic relationship between socio-political activism and spiritual restoration.

Title first published in 2003.

The question of the 'structure' of the human person is central to many mystical authors in the Christian tradition.

Is there a gap between where you are and where you want to be in your writing life?

*; Shares shamanic practices, rituals, ceremonies, and wisdom to help you reintroduce magic into everyday life and awaken the Aquarian Shaman within*; Explains major components of shamanic practice, including totem animals, spirit teachers, personal altars, medicine wheels, the power of song and dance, and the use of sacred objects and sacred circles*; Explores the shamanic realm of imagination and techniques to access it, including Shamanic Breathwork and spirit journeyingAre you hearing a persistent inner calling to wake up and remember who you really are?

This book introduces students to Christian mysticism and modern critical responses to it.

Hey wahres Ich, es ist Zeit, dich zu entfalten!

A comprehensive look at Irish, Scottish, Welsh and continental Celtic traditions, both Pagan and Christian , this guide includes the Celtic approach to shamanism, fairies, Wicca, neopaganism, magic and Druidism.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries secular French scholars started re-engaging with religious ideas, particularly mystical ones.

In these secular times, confessing to a belief in the apocalypse consigns a person to Christian fundamentalism or to cult status.

In Mystics and Messiahs--the first full account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history--Philip Jenkins shows that, contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of the 1960s.

Since the 1960s a fresh wave of new religions and what has come to be termed 'spiritualities' have been evident on a global scale.

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.

Witchcraft has proven an important, if difficult, historical subject to investigate and interpret over the last four decades or so.

 Bridging the fields of Religion and Latina/o Studies, this book fills a gap by examining the "e;spiritual"e; rhetoric and practices of the Chicano movement.

PSYCHIC is the intimate, first-person, unapologetic, no-holds-barred story behind the story that Sylvia, at the age of 72, is finally ready to tell.

In a supposedly 'global age,' which not everyone accepts, the late Dr Jennifer Crawford has brought together a range of disciplines in her creation of a unified, sensitive 'way of knowing' for the global era.

In 1999 His Holiness The Dalai Lama published the bestselling Ancient Wisdom: Modern World, which addressed the question of ethics for the new millennium.

This book emphasizes the integral connections between imagination, creativity, and spirituality and their role in healing.

The result of a perfect storm of factors that culminated in a great moral catastrophe, the Salem witch trials of 1692 took a breathtaking toll on the young English colony of Massachusetts.

Infuse a drop of magick into your everyday life.

Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages explores the response by medieval society to tales of marvels and the supernatural, which ranged from firm belief to outright rejection, and asks why the believers believed, and why the skeptical disbelieved.

Secular and spiritual prophets of doom abound in the information-rich twenty-first century - as they have for millennia.

The study of ethnology or 'Volkskunde' in Austria has had a troubled past.

"e;A Road to Self Knowledge and the Threshold of the Spiritual World"e; is a vintage self-help book written by Rudolf Steiner and first published in 1918.

Mormons tend to be model citizens-friendly, honest, hopeful, kind-everything that should be expected from a Christian.

This title was first published in 2001.

Approaching Druidry as an emerging religious movement that offers an alternative to the mainstream materialist, consumerist culture of the United States, Kimberly Kirner analyses her own life as a Druid through the lens of her profession as a cultural anthropologist.

Come Along is an attempt to respond to the contemporary crises in the world with the intention of discovering the path to peace and happiness, which every human heart craves.

The Vijayanagara Empire flourished in South India between 1336 and 1565.

This book represents the first critical edition and scholarly annotated translation of a pioneering report on the predicament of cross-cultural understanding at the dawn of globalization, titled "e;A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and Linghun"e; ("e;Resposta breve sobre as Controversias do Xamty, Tien Xin, Lim hoen"e;), which was written in China by the Sicilian Jesuit missionary Niccolo Longobardo (1565-1654) in the 1620s and profoundly influenced Enlightenment understandings of Asian philosophy.

This book explores the struggling genesis of a women's movement in the Orthodox Church through the ecumenical movement of the twentieth century at a time when militant conservatism is emerging in Orthodox countries and fundamentalism in the diaspora.

In this pathbreaking study, the historical relationship between nineteenth-century spiritualism and twentieth-century surrealism is the basis for a general examination of conflicting movements in literature, art, philosophy, science, and other areas of social life.

Following Jesus to Burning Man: Recovering the Church's Vocation places the author, a Pentecostal/evangelical minister, in a thoroughly pagan context in the Nevada desert where he discovered the presence of God in a way that transformed his understanding of ministry in the twenty-first century context.

The Hindu-derived meditation movement, The Art of Living (AOL), founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Bangalore, has grown into a global organization which claims presence in more than 150 countries.

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

"e;Ancient Mysteries and Modern Revelations"e; explores ancient mythologies and modern religious beliefs in the light of contemporary scientific knowledge.

Scientology's long and complex journey to recognition as a religionScientology is one of the wealthiest and most powerful new religions to emerge in the past century.

Jung's psychology describes the origin of the Gods and their religions in terms of the impact of archetypal powers on consciousness.

Exploring European changes in religious and secular beliefs and practices related to life passages, this book provides a deeper understanding of the impacts of social change on personal identity and adjustment across the life course, According to latest research, Europeans who consider religious services appropriate to mark life passages significantly outnumber those who declare themselves as believers.

This book discusses the profound philosophy and practical psychology behind yoga, beyond its popular body-culture aspect.

This vintage work contains a comprehensive treatise on the history of spiritualism, being a narrative which covers in a way the whole history of the Spiritualistic movement.

The book goes beyond theory to offer tools and suggestions for developing emerging leaders.

A spiritual quest typically begins with a critical shock or loss, one that casts us back upon ourselves to question the meaning of life.

The Kabbalah is a practical system for understanding ourselves and our relationship with the world.

A revered instructor of the eremitic monks of Nitria, Sketis and Kellia, Evagrius Ponticus is a fascinating yet enigmatic figure in the history of fourth-century mystical thought.

Originally published in 1992, The Esoteric Scene, Cultic Milieu, and Occult Tarot examines beliefs, practices, and activities described as mystical, psychical, magical, spiritual, metaphysical, theophysical, esoteric, occult, and/or pagan, among other possible labels, by their American disciplines.

Originally published in 1982, The Shaman and the Magician draws on the author's wide experience of occultism, western magic and anthropological knowledge of shamanism, to explore the interesting parallels between traditional shamanism and the more visionary aspects of magic in modern western society.