Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs

For the first time, this volume by two leading historians offers a comprehensive study of drawing lots as a central institution of ancient Greek society.

There has long been a trend in religious studies that denies that religion can be an effective category for historians to use across time and cultures.

Imperial Cults is a comparative study of the transformation of imperial religion and imperial authority in the early Han and Roman empires.

Imperial Cults is a comparative study of the transformation of imperial religion and imperial authority in the early Han and Roman empires.

For the first time, this volume by two leading historians offers a comprehensive study of drawing lots as a central institution of ancient Greek society.

Scholars have sometimes maintained that the study of the history of African religions is an impossible endeavor.

In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular.

In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular.

Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pars traces the formation of Candombl, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas.

Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a byproduct of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions.

Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pars traces the formation of Candombl, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas.

Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians.

Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians.

Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a byproduct of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions.

Scholars have sometimes maintained that the study of the history of African religions is an impossible endeavor.

Politics and diplomacy have always been as much about the social and cultural contexts within which political actors operate as they are about the political structures themselves.

Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions explores how magic disappears and miracle emerges in a series of texts featuring the apostle Peter.

From binding spells and incantations to curse-writing rituals, magic pervaded the ancient Greek world.

From binding spells and incantations to curse-writing rituals, magic pervaded the ancient Greek world.

What did people in the early Christian period think about the pagan inscriptions filling their late antique cities?

What did people in the early Christian period think about the pagan inscriptions filling their late antique cities?

Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions explores how magic disappears and miracle emerges in a series of texts featuring the apostle Peter.

Eusebius the Evangelist analyzes Eusebius of Caesarea's fourth-century reconfiguration of the Gospels as a window into broader questions of technology and textuality in the ancient Mediterranean.

Eusebius the Evangelist analyzes Eusebius of Caesarea's fourth-century reconfiguration of the Gospels as a window into broader questions of technology and textuality in the ancient Mediterranean.

This volume explores Pentecostalism's multifaceted nature in Africa, examining its dialectical engagements, dynamic expressions, and transformative potential across the continent's spiritual, social, and political landscapes in postcolonial contexts.

This volume explores Pentecostalism's multifaceted nature in Africa, examining its dialectical engagements, dynamic expressions, and transformative potential across the continent's spiritual, social, and political landscapes in postcolonial contexts.

Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands brings into conversation the distinct fields of tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis) studies and women's studies by exploring significant shifts in modern Qur'anic commentaries on the subject of women.

Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands brings into conversation the distinct fields of tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis) studies and women's studies by exploring significant shifts in modern Qur'anic commentaries on the subject of women.

'Utterly enthralling' JESSICA J.

Past and present are laid side by side in this fascinating visual tour around the capital of Western Australia.

You've heard of Odin.

This book is a mystical and revealing guide that explores the link between soul mates and the hidden power of the date of birth.

'Singh is a brilliant young scholar and a gifted writer, and this remarkable book will change how you think about religion, spirituality, consciousness, and human nature' Paul BloomWhat are the origins of shamanism and what is its future?

Unlock the secrets of destiny, career peaks, and educational milestones using the power of Vedic Astrology's most critical divisional charts.

This book is an interdisciplinary synthesis and interpretation about the experience of light as revealed in a wide range of art and literature from Paleolithic to Roman times.

This book is an interdisciplinary synthesis and interpretation about the experience of light as revealed in a wide range of art and literature from Paleolithic to Roman times.

Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century.

Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century.

In the first book to consider the study of world religion and world literature in concert, Zhange Ni proposes a new reading strategy that she calls "e;pagan criticism,"e; which she applies not only to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literary texts that engage the global resurgence of religion but also to the very concepts of religion and the secular.

Pagan Studies is maturing and moving beyond the context of new religious movements to situate itself in within of the study of world religions.

Two thousand years ago, Antioch on the Orontes River was the third most important city in the Roman Empire.

Following Jesus to Burning Man: Recovering the Church's Vocation places the author, a Pentecostal/evangelical minister, in a thoroughly pagan context in the Nevada desert where he discovered the presence of God in a way that transformed his understanding of ministry in the twenty-first century context.

Do humans have a special capacity designed to foster experiences of God?

This book is a study of Salpuri-Chum, a traditional Korean dance for expelling evil spirits.

Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.

This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic.

The issue of the other has always been an urgent one, especially since 1980's, when the political debates over race, gender, class, culture, ethnicity, and post-colonialism took the central stage.

This book concerns the origins, structure, purpose, meaning, and signi?

In the first book to consider the study of world religion and world literature in concert, Zhange Ni proposes a new reading strategy that she calls "e;pagan criticism,"e; which she applies not only to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literary texts that engage the global resurgence of religion but also to the very concepts of religion and the secular.

Do humans have a special capacity designed to foster experiences of God?