Occult studies

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.

The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century.

This volume contains an 1875 English translation of Father Sinistrari of Ameno's rare book on demonology "e;Demoniality, or Incubi and Succubi"e;.

This biography casts new light on scholarly understandings of the connections between politics, witchcraft and AIDS in South Africa.

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas.

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1978 and 1992, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the occult and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues.

This book approaches witchcraft and demonology through literary records.

Gwenda Roland apresenta uma obra reveladora, "As Mulheres na Maçonaria: Entre Mistérios e Revelações", que desvenda a participação feminina em uma das mais enigmáticas e tradicionalmente masculinas instituições do mundo.

In The Devil and Philosophy, 34 philosophers explore questions about one of the most recognizable and influential characters (villains?

This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult.

A modern-day quest that echoes the ancient alchemists' work to discover the elixir of life *; Provides an overview of alchemical practices in the ancient world--from Europe to China *; Reveals the alchemical secrets for creating this elixir in clear scientific language In 1989, while attempting to extract precious minerals from his property, a wealthy Arizonan obtained a mysterious white material that initially defied scientific attempts to identify it.

Le Donne nella MassoneriaUna storia nascosta di forza e resistenzaIn un mondo dove le società segrete sono avvolte da un'aura di mistero e mascolinità, "Le Donne nella Massoneria" illumina un capitolo poco raccontato della storia.

This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the anthropological study of religion.

An insider's view of the inner workings and prevalence of spirit possession in our modern world *; Provides practical techniques for preparation, safety, aftercare, and aborting harmful possessions *; Reveals the forms of ritual possession present throughout the world--including Uganda, Nepal, Korea, Bali, Greece, Turkey, Scandinavia, and France Drawing Down the Spirits presents an insider's view of the inner workings, sacred traditions, and prevalence of spirit possession existing in our modern world.

This book analyzes the history of magic''s changing role in the West from antiquity to the present day.

Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts explores the phenomenon of spirit possession, focusing on the religious and cultural functions it serves as a means of communication.

Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magic possible in ancient Greece.

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Often regarded as an artistic movement of interwar Paris, Surrealism comprised an international community of artists, writers, and intellectuals who have aspired to change the conditions of life itself over the course of the past century.

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Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1916 and 1995, Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy (7 volume set) offers a selection of scholarship covering various facets of alchemical traditions.

Science and Magic in the Modern World is a unique text that explores the role of magical thinking in everyday life.

Originally published in 1978 Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America is an incredibly diverse and comprehensive bibliography on published works containing ethnographic data on, and analysis of, spirit possession and spirit mediumship in North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in some Afro-American communities in the Western Hemisphere.

Rapley analyses witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and finds many of the same elements repeated in more recent miscarriages of justice - from the Dreyfus case for treason in late nineteenth-century France, to the persecution of the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama for the gang rape of two white girls in the 1930s, to the Guildford and Maguire terrorist prosecutions in Britain in the 1970s.

Embracing the Witch and the Goddess is a detailed survey of present-day feminist witches in New Zealand.

'The most chilling witch-hunt in English history .

Between the years of 1898 and 1926, Edward Westermarck spent a total of seven years in Morocco, visiting towns and tribes in different parts of the country, meeting local people and learning about their language and culture; his findings are noted in this two-volume set, first published in 1926.

An introduction to European alchemy and a history of the practise of witchcraft and magic from the fourteenth century through to the seventeenth century.

This book explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting 'magical' and 'shamanic' practices associated with vernacular religions across Monsoon Asia.

An exploration of our extraordinary shift away from materialism toward renewal of the numinous, mysterious, and uncertain*; Examines topics that evoke widespread misunderstanding, including the real history of secret societies, the wisdom of the Satanic, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, out-of-body experience, and the contemporary war on witches*; Looks at the influence of the founding lights of modern occultism, including mystic Neville Goddard, occult scholar Manly P.

Julius Evola's final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution*; Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our modern age*; Reveals how to transform destructive processes into inner liberationThe organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and society, would have allowed an individual to realize himself completely, to defend the principal values he recognizes as his own, and to structure his life in a clear and unambiguous way, no longer exist in the contemporary world.

Magic: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to magic in world history and contemporary societies.

In this important study of the meaning of the Grail, one of Europe's greatest esoteric philosophers discloses the pre-Christian and initiatic sources of this symbolic motif that is so central to Western mythology and culture.

The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition.

Take a dark descent into a world of supernatural evil!

What is a grimoire?

This book rediscovers a spiritual way of preparing the actor towards experiencing that ineffable artistic creativity defined by Konstantin Stanislavski as the creative state.

Daughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture.

The Secret Source reveals the actual occult doctrines that gave birth to The Law of Attraction and later inspired the media phenomenon known as The Secret.

Strange Histories is an exploration of some of the most extraordinary beliefs that existed in the late Middle Ages through to the end of the seventeenth century.

Theodore Parker (1810-1860) was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and of Jesus, a brilliant scholar who became a popular agitator for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights, and a political theorist who defined democracy as "e;government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people--words that inspired Abraham Lincoln.

Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an attempt to heal themselves of epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression.

Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) is one of the most famous and significant authors in the history of western esotericism.

A study of the representation of the occult in late-Victorian popular fiction, exploring different perceptions of authorship and creativity.