Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs

First published in 1902, this book investigates the history and development of early religion from an anthropological perspective.

This book critically examines contemporary Pentecostalism in South Africa and its influence on some of the countries that surround it.

Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophical and religious contexts of much of Asia.

This original, provocative study, first published in 1973, presents a new method of interpretation of mythology, and reveals the wide-ranging implications of this universal phenomenon for many disciplines.

The oldest roots of the European concepts of witchcraft and magic lie in the Hebrew and other cultures of the ancient Near East and in the Celtic, Nordic and Germanic Societies of the North and West.

Rethinks the workings of polytheism in ancient Greece through exploring the goddess Hera in her complex relationship to Zeus.

The two great Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 and 480-79 B.

The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being.

In contemporary Indian Country, many of the people who identify as "e;American Indian"e; fall into the "e;urban Indian"e; category: away from traditional lands and communities, in cities and towns wherein the opportunities to live one's identity as Native can be restricted, and even more so for American Indian religious practice and activity.

A follow-up to the best selling The Real Witches' Handbook.

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This book brings attention to the understudied and often overlooked question of how curricula and classroom practices might inadvertently reproduce exclusionary discourses and narratives that omit or negate particular cultures, histories, and wisdom traditions.

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.

Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________'Deliverance is an intriguing, strangely comforting book that shines a light into a world that's little talked about' - The Mail on Sunday___________________________________________________________________________________ I turned towards the door.

Presenting a wide range of new scholarly approaches, this is the first volume to critique the highly influential television series Xena: Warrior Princess.

Jack Goody, one of the world''s most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy.

Myth, Locality, and Identity argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in the fifth century BCE.

Many observers of Kenya's complicated history see causes for concern, from the use of public office for private gain to a constitutional structure historically lopsided towards the executive branch.

This volume narrates the history of Telugu Christians, a faith community located in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Pondicherry in southern India.

Seit Jahrhunderten faszinieren sie die Menschheit: Vampire und Werwölfe, Wesen der Dunkelheit, die die Grenzen zwischen Mensch und Monster verwischen.

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

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (1916) explores Hawaiian folktales and myths collected by W.

Jenseits des Sichtbaren liegt eine Welt voller mystischer Symbole und alter Weisheiten, eine Welt, die in diesem Buch lebendig wird.

This volume explores the importance of inter-generational oral culture and stories that transcend time, space, and boundaries transmitted historically from one generation to the next through proverbs, idioms, and folklore tales in different geographical and spatial contexts.

Die Handlungen dieses Buches, sind die Gefühle und Worte, meines pubertierenden Bewusstseins.

There is a little-known tradition of witch lore in Newfoundland culture.

This Handbook provides a cutting-edge survey of the state of research on religions and global development.

These essays represent a summation of Piotr Steinkeller's decades-long thinking and writing about the history of third millennium BCE Babylonia and the ways in which it is reflected in ancient historical and literary sources and art, as well as of how these written and visual materials may be used by the modern historian to attain, if not a reliable record of histoire evenementielle, a comprehensive picture of how the ancients understood their history.

During its expansion from the Amazon jungle to Western societies, ayahuasca use has encountered different legal and cultural responses.

In this book, Angelika Neuwirth provides a new approach to understanding the founding text of Islam.

This monograph focuses on "e;Christian Goddess Spirituality"e; (CGS), the phenomenon of (mostly) women who combine Christianity and Goddess Spirituality, including Wicca/Witchcraft.

Many West African societies have egalitarian political systems, with non-centralised distributions of power.

A collection of Sir Walter Scott's letters to his son-in-law, publisher J.

The human body serves as a symbolic bridge between communities of the living and the divine.

Die geheimnisvolle Welt des Golden Dawn, durchzogen von mächtigen Symbolen, rituellen Zeremonien und intensiven Initiationsverfahren, hat seit jeher die Fantasie von Suchenden, Mystikern und Historikern gleichermaßen ergriffen.

Many Peoples, Many Faiths places the world's religions in historical context, illustrating the complex dynamic of each religion over time, while also presenting current beliefs, practices, and group formations.

A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa's famed Meghaduta (literally "e;The Cloud Messenger,"e;) The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figuration, and mythic memory.

An eclectic volume on the history of the supernatural in Britain and Ireland.

This book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambila in Cameroon.

By integrating conversations across disciplines, especially focusing on classical studies and Jewish and Christian studies, this volume addresses several imbalances in scholarship on reading and textual activity in the ancient Mediterranean.