Alternative belief systems

Magic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout human history.

Magic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout human history.

The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a number of best-selling books which not only challenged the existence of god, but claimed that religious faith was dangerous and immoral.

The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a number of best-selling books which not only challenged the existence of god, but claimed that religious faith was dangerous and immoral.

In Letters to an Atheist, esteemed philosopher and author Peter Kreeft corresponds with a young atheist who is wrestling with the question of God.

There Is No God: Atheists in America answers several questions pertaining to how the atheist population has grown from relatively small numbers to have a disproportionately large impact on important issues of our day, such as the separation of church and state, abortion, gay marriage, and public school curricula.

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.

"All will find here much reality, much wisdom, much encouragement, and much to praise God for.

Judy Robertson shares her unique insider's viewpoint as a woman in the Mormon church.

At first, the Watchtower Society seemed harmless to William J.

Churches in North America are bigger than ever, but their slow rate of growth cannot keep up with population increases.

Mormonism is one of the fastest growing religions in the world.

What's special about Oneness Pentecostals?

The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements covers key themes such as charismatic leadership, conversion and brainwashing, prophecy and millennialism, violence and suicide, gender and sexuality, legal issues, and the portrayal of New Religious Movements by the media and anti-cult organisations.

How do we write about magic?

Tales of Lights and Shadows offers a fresh approach to the traditional mythology and literature of the afterlife, centering on tensions and polarities in the afterlife concepts: bright vs.

Beginning in China in the search for the secret of immortality, and appearing independently in Egypt as an attempt to produce gold through the arts of smelting and alloying metals, alchemy received a great boost in Europe from studies by Islamic and Jewish alchemists.

Atheism: A Guide for the Perplexed moves beyond the polemics to present an overview of atheism that is rigorous but still accessible to the educated layperson as well as to the undergraduate student in philosophy and theology.

New Religious Movements: A Guide for the Perplexed examines the phenomenon of new faiths and alternative spiritualities which has become a feature of the contemporary world.

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Santo Daime: A New World Religion deals with a young, exotic and controversial religious movement.

How do we write about magic?

In 1901 a rich collection of extracts from documents relating to witch beliefs and witch trials in the Middle Ages - Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolgung in Mittelalter - was published in Bonn.

The Errors of Atheism is a response to the glaring gap that exists in analytical philosophy on the concept of God.

Rudolf Steiner is one of the most controversially judged educational reformers of the twentieth century.

The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements covers key themes such as charismatic leadership, conversion and brainwashing, prophecy and millennialism, violence and suicide, gender and sexuality, legal issues, and the portrayal of New Religious Movements by the media and anti-cult organisations.

From the 1990s the British developed an interest in natural burial, also known as woodland, green, or ecological burial.

From the 1990s the British developed an interest in natural burial, also known as woodland, green, or ecological burial.

Peter Hitchens lost faith as a teenager.

Rudolf Steiner is one of the most controversially judged educational reformers of the twentieth century.

Spiritualism and mediumship are often regarded as the product of lingering superstition in the Victorian era, and as having limited relevance in modern Anglo-American society.

Santo Daime: A New World Religion deals with a young, exotic and controversial religious movement.

The New Atheist Novel is the first study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction.

One of the first attempts ever to present in a systematic way a non-western semiotic system.

Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe brings together a rich selection of essays which represent the most important historical research on religion, magic and superstition in early modern Europe.

The first book to explore the importance of alchemy and its links to the occult in the period between 1320 and 1400.

One of the first attempts ever to present in a systematic way a non-western semiotic system.

The first book to explore the importance of alchemy and its links to the occult in the period between 1320 and 1400.

This book explores the phenomenon of Saturnism, namely the belief that the planet Saturn, the seventh known planet in ancient astrology, was appointed upon the Jews, who celebrated the Sabbath, the seventh day of the Jewish week.

Beginning in China in the search for the secret of immortality, and appearing independently in Egypt as an attempt to produce gold through the arts of smelting and alloying metals, alchemy received a great boost in Europe from studies by Islamic and Jewish alchemists.

Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world.

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In 1901 a rich collection of extracts from documents relating to witch beliefs and witch trials in the Middle Ages - Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolgung in Mittelalter - was published in Bonn.

The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research to these episodes.

Brash, bold, and sometimes brutal, superheroes might seem to epitomize modern pop-culture at its most melodramatic and mindless.

Spiritualism and mediumship are often regarded as the product of lingering superstition in the Victorian era, and as having limited relevance in modern Anglo-American society.

In this stimulating dialogue these two great men, who stand on opposite sides of the church door, discuss some of the most controversial issues of the day.