Other religions and spiritual beliefs

Deploying a distinctive disaggregative approach to the study of 'religion', this volume shows that spiritual movements with extensive counterfactual beliefs have been much more creative than one might expect.

This volume, first published in 2002, presents a sophisticated analysis of the musical instruments, repertoires, musicians and ensembles, and symbolism of the ritual music of Shamans of Seoul, Korea.

Recent shifts in the contemporary cultural, political, and religious landscape are engendering intensive attention concerning political theology.

This book, first published in 1917, investigates the rites and beliefs of people who had remained in a 'primitive' state of culture throughout the ages.

Early Buddhist Narrative Art is a pictorial journey through the transmission of the narrative cycle based on the life of the historical Buddha.

This volume explores the reception, development and construction of Eastern practices in the Nordic countries.

For the first time, this influential study by Ludwig Alsdorf is made available to an English speaking audience, translated by Bal Patil.

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 European Witch-Hunt seeks to explain why thousands of people, mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in the name of religion and morality during three centuries of intermittent witch-hunting throughout Europe and North America.

As the first systematic attempt to probe the linguistic strategies of Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism, this book investigates three areas: deconstructive strategy, liminology of language, and indirect communication.

The Sikh World is an outstanding guide to the Sikh faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity.

This book explores some of the political and methodological directions that collectively lead to the repositioning of Islam in social science research as both an epistemic/ontological category and as a method.

Much previous literature on sacred natural sites has been written from a non-indigenous perspective.

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

Journeys East tells the story of the twentieth century's encounters between East and West by exploring the lives of many of the most fascinating scientists, intellectuals, artists, and spiritual seekers of our time.

Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an attempt to heal themselves of epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression.

This volume reveals how religion interfaces with inequality in different African contexts.

In Mystical Theology and Contemporary Spiritual Practice several leading scholars explore key themes within the Christian mystical tradition, contemporary and historical.

This book, containing 19 papers, presented at a national seminar, organized by the Rajiv Gandhi Chair in Contemporary Studies, Barkatullah University, Bhopal, attempts to take stock of the status of tribal development in India since independence.

When over 900 followers of the Peoples Temple religious group committed suicide in 1978, they left a legacy of suspicion and fear.

Examines the realities of unexplained natural phenomenon and provides explanations that push the boundaries of science.

Throughout the longue dure of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience?

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

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Increasing numbers of professionals in the fields of psychology and therapy are seeking to incorporate elements of spirituality into their therapeutic oeuvre, addressing not only mental and emotional issues, but also the soul.

The United States is currently undergoing the most rapid demographic shift in its history.

This book contains a dramatic and revealing translation of this ancient classic into English.

With a focus on Asian traditions, this book examines varieties of thought and self-transformative practice that do not fit neatly on one side or another of the standard Western division between philosophy and religion.

New Religious Movements tend to start their lives with a number of unequivocal statements, not only of a theological nature but also about the world and appropriate behaviours for the believer.

The Wana people of Morowali accept the experiences of pain, illness and loss and transform them into something positive: rituals that celebrate life, friendship and the community.

This book is based on anthropological fieldwork among the Bai, an ethnic minority with a population of two million in Dali, southwest China.

The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century.

This volume focuses on African indigenous women legends and their potential to serve as midwives for gender empowerment and for contributing towards African feminist theories.

This volume contains an 1875 English translation of Father Sinistrari of Ameno's rare book on demonology "e;Demoniality, or Incubi and Succubi"e;.

This biography casts new light on scholarly understandings of the connections between politics, witchcraft and AIDS in South Africa.

Confucianism is the guiding creed for a quarter of mankind, yet hardly anyone has explained it in plain terms - until now.

There used to be the God called Ame-no-Mioya-Gami in Japan.

This book explores devotional Hinduism in a modern context of high consumerism and revolutionised communications.

This book questions whether temples and Daoism are two independent aspects of modern Chinese religion or if they are indissolubly linked.

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1978 and 1992, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the occult and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues.

This book approaches witchcraft and demonology through literary records.