Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs

First published in 1906, these four lectures were originally delivered in the Vacation Term for Biblical Study at Cambridge.

The Witchcraft Reader offers a wide range of historical perspectives on the subject of witchcraft in a single, accessible volume, exploring the enduring hold that it has on human imagination.

In a riveting first-person account, Todd Ramon Ochoa explores Palo, a Kongo-inspired "e;society of affliction"e; that is poorly understood at the margins of Cuban popular religion.

First published in 1949, Ancient Roman Religion is an introduction to some of the most outstanding features of the complicated religion, or rather series of religions, which flourished in Rome between the earliest recoverable ages of her long history and the close of the classical epoch.

The Salem witch hunt of 1692 is among the most infamous events in early American history; however, it was not the only such episode to occur in New England that year.

This vintage classic gives invaluable insight into the mysterious depths of the mind of French author and ceremonial magician, Eliphas Levi.

Memory in a Time of Prose investigates a deceptively straightforward question: what did the biblical scribes know about times previous to their own?

This book offers a new, theoretically informed framework for the interpretation of ancient visual culture.

John Nemec examines the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhij?

Global Indigenous Communities is a wide-ranging examination of global Indigenous communities that continue to suffer from colonization and assimilation issues, including intergenerational trauma.

This book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft and its contentious relationship with the state in colonial Kenya.

The Politics of Identity in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy offers the first sustained analysis of the relationship between collective identity and politics in the Greek West during the period c.

This book analyzes the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death.

Demons in the USA argues that the discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination.

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.

Joseph Campbell (1904-1988) was one of the most well-known and popular scholars of myth and comparative religion of the twentieth century.

The mythological hero Orpheus occupied a central role in ancient Greek culture, but 'the son of Oeagrus' and 'Thracian musician' venerated by the Greeks has also become a prominent figure in a long tradition of classical reception of Greek myth.

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

From top hats to top secrets, this book is a celebration of illusion technology and mechanisms of trickery through a genre-crossing selection of films.

Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous.

This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures.

In the ancient Greco-Roman world, it was common practice to curse or bind an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit.

Community and Trinity in Africa recasts the African tradition of community from a theological perspective.

Part of the enduring fascination of the Salem witch trials is the fact that, to date, no one theory has been able to fully explain the events that ravaged Salem in 1692.

After more than a century of debate about the significance of imperial cults for the interpretation of Revelation, this is the first study to examine both the archaeological evidence and the Biblical text in depth.

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The neglected history of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have approached ideas of the occult which challenged biblical religion.

This collection brings together new papers addressing the philosophical challenges that the concept of a Devil presents, bringing philosophical rigor to treatments of the Devil.

This book rethinks the relations between reasoning and revelation and, therefore, the nature of philosophy and religion in archaic Greece.

Social media is part of our lives, and it's an increasingly popular place for witches of all kinds to meet and create new spells.

This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature as it evolved during the classical period.

According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries.

Two Greek cities which in their time were leading states in the Mediterranean world, Selinus in Sicily and Cyrene in Libya, set up inscriptions of the kind called sacred laws, but regulating worship on a larger scale than elsewhere - Selinus in the mid fifth century B.

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

This book brings together our present-day knowledge about textile terminology in the Akkadian language of the first-millennium BC.

Witchcraft: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft, exploring the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through to its resonances in the modern world.

How have the goddesses of ancient myth survived, prevalent even now as literary and cultural icons?

This book builds on the perspective that, for Indigenous peoples, relations to the land are familial, intimate, intergenerational, spiritual, instructive, and life nourishing, and it is these relations that Western societies sought to destroy as part of their colonial projects of territorial conquest and exploitation of resources.

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"e;History of the Devil: His Origins, Greatness, and Decadence"e; is a 1870 work by Albert Reville.

Exploring the use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy in relation to heroic identity, Kate Cook demonstrates that the distribution of praise and blame, a significant social function of archaic and classical poetry, also plays a key role in Greek tragedy.

Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal explores the history of mental health in Senegal, and how psychological difficulties were expressed in the terms of spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, spirit possession, and ancestor worship.

In contradistinction to the many monographs and edited volumes devoted to historical, cultural, or theological treatments of demonology, this collection features newly written papers by philosophers and other scholars engaged specifically in philosophical argument, debate, and dialogue involving ideas and topics in demonology.

This book introduces students to the anthropology of magic and witchcraft, terms widely used but with no widely accepted definitions.

The subject treated is a very fascinating one, to the general reader as well as to the student of psychology and ethnology.