Provides an introduction to the major religions of the ancient Mediterranean and explores current research regarding the similarities and differences among them.
In October of 1563, 18-year old Anne Mylner was herding cows near her home when she was suddenly enveloped by a white cloud that precipitated a months-long illness characterized by sleeplessness, loss of appetite, convulsions, and bodily swelling.
*; Shares a detailed formulary, including rituals, magical correspondences, and recipes for working with the baneful herbs of occult herbalism*; Looks at the plants of fate and the divination practices they support, love magic with poison plants, shadow work and spell work, the devil's garden, and the use of nightshades as power plants for medicine and magic*; Explores poison history, lore, occult toxicology, and the alchemical power of working with poisonExamining the art and science of working with noxious and malefic plants and fungi, Coby Michael discusses the occult properties of poison and how poison plants can be used in spell work and other magical operations.
Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century.
Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in reality a highly pragmatic business, with very clearly formulated aims - often of an exceedingly malignant kind.
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.
• Analiza el fenómeno del Hombre Oscuro a través del folclor y la mitología de siglos pasados, así como de relatos contemporáneos y el testimonio de los juicios británicos de los brujos
• Cuestiona la visión simplista del Hombre Oscuro como una entidad "maligna", mostrándonos que los encuentros con esta figura pueden ayudarnos a revelar nuestro propósito vital, y haciéndonos comprender su papel como iniciador en la brujería
• Incluye entrevistas con testigos directos de la presencia del Hombre Oscuro, quienes nos ofrecen una perspectiva sobre cómo estas experiencias pueden conducirnos hacia una vida más positiva
Desde los fantasmas forteanos que aterrorizaron a la Inglaterra victoriana hasta las encrucijadas embrujadas de las tierras altas irlandesas, el Hombre Oscuro (diablo, Padre de los Brujos, Señor de las Encrucijadas, etc.
More than a quarter of the world's religions are to be found in the regions of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, together called Oceania.
Contextualizing Eschatology in African Cultural and Religious Beliefs addresses the African consciousness and nuances of eschatological beliefs as part and parcel of the holistic African Indigenous worldviews within the context of the people's traditional heritage.
John Nemec examines the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhijna or "e;Recognition [of God]"e; School of tenth-century Kashmir, the tradition most closely associated with Kashmiri Shaivism.
Addressing the relationship between religion and ideology, and drawing on a range of literary, ritual, and visual sources, this book reconstructs the cultural discourse of Assyria from the third through the first millennium BCE.
Few thorough ethnographic studies on Central Indian tribal communities exist, and the elaborate discussion on the cultural meanings of Indian food systems ignores these societies altogether.
This book concentrates on female shamanisms in Asia and their relationship with the state and other religions, offering a perspective on gender and shamanism that has often been neglected in previous accounts.
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.
Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature investigates the meaning of purity, purification, defilement, and disgust for Christian writers, readers, and listeners from the first to third centuries.
Presenting a wide range of new scholarly approaches, this is the first volume to critique the highly influential television series Xena: Warrior Princess.
Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Maya und entdecken Sie die tief verwurzelte Spiritualität und die komplexe Götterwelt dieser beeindruckenden antiken Zivilisation.
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.
Bringing together cutting-edge research from a range of disciplines, this handbook argues that despite often being overlooked or treated as marginal, the study of Islam from an African context is integral to the broader Muslim world.
African grassroots theologies and churches are expressions of the faith, spirituality, and praxis of African Christians who seek to articulate and live out their Christian identity and mission in their diverse and complex contexts.
John Nemec examines the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhijna or "e;Recognition [of God]"e; School of tenth-century Kashmir, the tradition most closely associated with Kashmiri Shaivism.
This book describes how anthropologists in the twentieth century went about documenting the religions of those independent peoples who still lived beyond the frontiers of the global economy and the world religions.
