Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs

The object of this book, first published in 1928, is a study of the ways in which those who were once called 'primitives' conceive of their own individuality.

Providing an indispensable overview of the American Indian Wars, this book focuses on Native American tribes and warriors and their varying responses to the onslaught of European colonists and American settlers in the centuries following contact.

This book formulates a new pedagogy of death with regard to Northeast India and shows how this pedagogy offers an understanding of alternative knowledge systems and epistemes.

This book formulates a new pedagogy of death with regard to Northeast India and shows how this pedagogy offers an understanding of alternative knowledge systems and epistemes.

With contributions spanning from the Neolithic Age to the Iron Age, this book offers important insights into the religions and ritual practices in ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern communities through the lenses of their material remains.

This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas.

This book investigates the discursive and performative strategies employed by Australian Indigenous rappers to make sense of the world and establish a position of authority over their identity and place in society.

The twentieth century has seen a remarkable revival of "e;the Old Religion,"e; as adherents of New-paganism call the native religious traditions of Europe and tribal traditions from North America that predated Christianity.

For more than 3,000 years, the Amazons have been a recognised symbol that transcends mythology and has influenced history itself.

Seit Anbeginn der Menschheit faszinieren und ängstigen uns Dämonen.

Given the circularity of the witchcraft complex in Africa, given its performative potential, isn,t the flood of anthropological publications on the topic counter-productive insofar as it feeds what it pretends to analyse, and even stigmatize?

This book clarifies the advent of Liangzhu Culture and analyses the morphology, structure and internal social organization of grass-root settlements, medium-size settlements and the ancient city of Liangzhu, as well as the religious beliefs, ideology and power mechanisms represented by jade.

¿Alguna vez ha sentido que su infortunio no es normal?

Millennia have passed since the dharma yudhha of the cousins shook the land of Bharata.

Karan vir Oberoi, a real-estate magnate living in New York has recurrent dreams of someone that looks like an ancient warrior clad in golden armour adorning golden earrings.

Esta obra propone desmitificar un tema de ayer, de hoy y de siempre, tan sugestivo, atrayente y lleno de misterio como ha sido y continúa siendo la brujería.

The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History is a 1916 racist and pseudoscientific book by American lawyer, self-styled anthropologist, and proponent of eugenics, Madison Grant (1865-1937).

The Rising Tide of Color: The Threat Against White World-Supremacy (1920), by Lothrop Stoddard, is a book about racialism and geopolitics, which describes the collapse of white supremacy and colonialism because of the population growth among "e;people of color"e;, rising nationalism in colonized nations, and industrialization in China and Japan.

In 1921, Lothrop Stoddard wrote "e;The world of Islam, mentally and spiritually quiescent for almost a thousand years, is once more astir, once more on the march.

The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America is a eugenicist work by an American lawyer and biologist Madison Grant.

The Love Books Ovid - The Love Books of Ovid is a collection of four works of Roman poet Ovids verses on love in English prose translation.

The Mystical Qabalah Dion Fortune - Very few students of occultism know anything at all about the fountain-head whence their tradition springs.

On Horsemanship Xenophon - libreka classics These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience.

Abbe Mouret's Transgression Emile Zola - "e;Abbe Mouret's Transgression"e; (La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret), written in 1874, is perhaps the most powerful and poetic of all Zola's tales; it is that in which fantasy bears the greatest part, and in which "e;naturalisme"e; for a while disappears.

Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus Mary Shelley - Die Handlung wird durch eine Mischung aus Briefroman und klassischer Ich-Erzählsituation vermittelt.

Das Herz der Finsternis Joseph Conrad - Das Herz der Finsternis" von 1899 ist das bekannteste Werk des Bestsellerautors Joseph Conrad.

Faust - Der Tragödie erster Teil Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust.

Faust: A Tragedy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The story of Dr.

The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion is a fabricated antisemitic text purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global domination.

The Practice of the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence - The Practice of the Presence of God is a book of collected teachings of Brother Lawrence (born Nicolas Herman), a 17th-century Carmelite friar, compiled by Father Joseph de Beaufort.

Initiation is one of the most mysterious and documented traditional practices of Witchcraft.

Hercule Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, a cadet (nobleman serving as a soldier) in the French Army, is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents.

Excerpt: "e;In many villages, during the festival to the village deity, water is poured over a sheep's back, and it is accepted as a good sign if it shivers.

Excerpt: "e;Talayari.

Excerpt: "e;Palli or Vanniyan.

Excerpt: "e;The Marakkayars are described, in the Madras Census Report, 1901, as "e;a Tamil-speaking Musalman tribe of mixed Hindu and Musalman origin, the people of which are usually traders.

Excerpt: "e;The word Korono is said to be derived from kirani, which means a writer or clerk.

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Excerpt: "e;The Chakkiliyan men in Madras are tattooed not only on the forehead, but also with their name, conventional devices, dancing-girls, etc.

Excerpt: "e;'In 1894, equipped with a set of anthropometric instruments obtained on loan from the Asiatic Society of Bengal, I commenced an investigation of the tribes of the Nilgiri hills, the Todas, Kotas, and Badagas, bringing down on myself the unofficial criticism that "e;anthropological research at high altitudes is eminently indicated when the thermometer registers 100(deg) in Madras.

This edited book brings together leading scholars in the field of Indigenous religions working with Indigenous Peoples from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe to examine various Indigenous discourses, practices, and politics of movement, as they intersect with issues of religion and spirituality.

Als Eri in den dunklen Wald geht, um die gute Hexe Mafalda zu besuchen, ahnt sie nicht, dass an diesem Tag das größte Abenteuer ihres Lebens beginnt.

››Das Standardwerk für moderne Hexenfamilien‹‹, meint Eliza Silverstone, und mit ihrer Aussage hat sie Recht!

Trotz seines gewaltigen Umfanges kann die "Christliche Mystik" eine imposante und eindrucksvolle Architektonik nicht verleugnen.

Den Mann fürs Leben finden.

Seit den Anfängen des Films hat der Teufel in verschiedenen Rollen seine Auftritte auf der Leinwand: nicht nur in klassischen Horrorfilmen, sondern auch in verschiedenen anderen Filmtypen, vom Porno bis zur Literaturverfilmung.

Seit den Anfängen des Films hat der Teufel in verschiedenen Rollen seine Auftritte auf der Leinwand: nicht nur in klassischen Horrorfilmen, sondern auch in verschiedenen anderen Filmtypen, vom Porno bis zur Literaturverfilmung.

Der Untergang der Kultur und der Religionen der alten Welt im Christentum vollzieht sich "in, mit und unter" Herausbildung des neuen allumfassenden und allesverschlingenden Mythos vom Christ, der als Sohn Gottes aus seiner himmlischen Vorexistenz in die Welt geboren wurde, um das Reich des "Fürsten dieser Welt", das Reich Satans oder des Teufels, das im Tode gipfelt, zu zerstören und die Menschheit durch die Aufrichtung des Reiches Gottes aus seinen Banden und vor dem nahenden Weltgericht zu erretten.

This book is annotated with a rare biographical sketch of the author, written by Elizabeth Robins Pennell.