Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs

First published in 1973, The Secret and Sublime is a warmly sympathetic account of Taoism, a colourful religion and way of life.

This book tells the uncommon story of a missionary family in the Midwestern United States, and their interactions with the indigenous Ojibwe.

This book tells the uncommon story of a missionary family in the Midwestern United States, and their interactions with the indigenous Ojibwe.

This book offers a novel perspective on consultation with indigenous peoples in projects of natural resource exploitation.

This book provides a knowledge base of the existing indigenous and local water knowledge, values, and practices, and how this water knowledge can be mainstreamed into the decision-making process.

This book provides a knowledge base of the existing indigenous and local water knowledge, values, and practices, and how this water knowledge can be mainstreamed into the decision-making process.

Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore is a collection of thirteen essays on the body of knowledge employed by ancient Near Eastern healing experts, most prominently the 'exorcist' and the 'physician', to help patients who were suffering from misfortunes caused by divine anger, transgressions of taboos, demons, witches, or other sources of evil.

This book offers a novel perspective on consultation with indigenous peoples in projects of natural resource exploitation.

La magia, como un elemento disruptivo, que ensancha el marco perceptivo, epistemico o cognoscitivo del hombre, ha estado presente tambien en sus manifestaciones artisticas.

Bei Hitze, Hagel, Kälte oder Trockenheit, als Mittel zur Brandbekämpfung und Abwendung von Wassergefahren hielt man Hostien für allgegenwärtig und allmächtig.

El propósito del presente libro es insistir en la prevalencia actual de los especialistas rituales andinos, los «hechiceros y ministros del diablo» de las crónicas coloniales, en medio de un proceso de reconocimiento político y «empoderamiento ritual» y de sus prácticas ceremoniales, en países como Bolivia, Perú y Ecuador.