Other religions and spiritual beliefs

Originally published in 1936.

The individual and institutional capacities required for the prevention and reduction of nutritional insecurity and hunger in lesser-developed countries as the twenty-first century approaches are identified in this book.

Jeffrey L.

The phenomenon of South Korean Christianity is, in a word, remarkable.

*; Native American meditations that help the reader find spirit in everyday life.

The Bundahisn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, and eschatology.

This book contains all three volumes of Edmund Goldsmid's "e;The History of the Devils of Loudun"e;, which deals with the purported demonic possession, sexual repression, religious fanaticism, and mass hysteria that occurred in the small town of Loudun in 17th-century France.

Focusing on our complex relationship with technology, The machine and the ghost explores our culture's continued fascination with the spectral, the ghostly and the paranormal.

Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather.

This comprehensive resource explores the intersection of religion, politics, and the supernatural that spawned the notorious witch hunts in Europe and the New World.

Islamic myths and collective memory are very much alive in today's localized struggles for identity, and are deployed in the ongoing construction of worldwide cultural networks.

A study of the Trojan War as retold in carved images and texts at the dawn of the Roman Empire.

In this study, Olberding proposes a new theoretical model for reading the Analects.

This is the first work available in English which addresses Zhuangzi's thought as a whole.

In 1966, Anton LaVey introduced to the world the Church of Satan, an atheistic religion devoted to the philosophy of individualism and pitilessness often associated with Satan.

This Element provides a historical and comprehensive overview of new religious movements.

No puede entenderse la teoría junguiana si no se comprende el lugar de la alquimia en la misma, porque la alquimia constituyó su orientación hermenéutica fundamental durante los últimos treinta años del desarrollo de su concepción.

This book analyses faith-based development action in the Philippines by studying Catholic social movements and development studies in Southeast Asia.

Neither power nor morality but both.

Demons, devils, spirits and vampires are present throughout popular Western culture in film, music and literature.

How did an ancient mythological figure who stole fire from the gods become a face of the modern, lending his name to trailblazing spaceships and radical publishing outfits alike?

Michael Argyle's new book is an introduction to the psychology of religion from one of the world's most famous experimental psychologists.

First among the ancient classics, the I Ching or Book of Changes is one of the world's most influential books, comparable to the Bible, the Koran, and the Upanishads.

The evil eye has received considerable attention in the literature of disciplines as diverse as anthropology and medicine.

This volume examines several theoretical concerns of embodiment in the context of Asian religious practice.

From music to gaming, information gathering to eLearning; eCommerce to eGovernment, Lorenzo Cantoni and Stefano Tardini's absorbing introduction considers the internet as a communication technology; the opportunities it affords us, the limitations it imposes and the functions it allows.

Summarizes the most important aspects of the role of violence in Chinese religious culture.

These essays examines the spiritual patrimony of humanity.

Through a close and informative reading of seven key texts in Acts, Kauppi analyses the appearances of Graeco-Roman religion, offering evidence of practices including divination and oracles, ruler cult and civic foundation myth.

This book expands the current axiology of theism literature by assessing the axiological status of alternative conceptions of God and the divine.

In the web of cultural processes of late antiquity ablution rites and initiation rites were performed in different forms and in different contexts.

Encyclopaedia Of Jainism Iscompiled, Edited And Arranged In Alphabetical Order By A Renowned Orientalist Who Has Recreated With All The Splendour And Mystery Of Its Oriental Background.

The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries.

This volume contains nine chapters of translation, by a range of leading scholars, focusing on core themes in the philosophy of Zhu Xi (1130-1200), one of the most influential Chinese thinkers of the later Confucian tradition.

*; Explains how to awaken your spiritual Womb to find strength within and how to reclaim your softness and vulnerability as a feminine superpower *; Explores Earth Magic, the Moon Mysteries, Flower of Life teachings, Dragon wisdom, the shamanic powers of grief, the feminine archetypes of the Witch and the Priestess, and powerful goddesses from around the world *; Reveals sacred spaces in the world where the power of the Goddess lives on The Womb is the seat of our primal power and intuition--our ';wild knowing.

The Daoist canon is the definitive fifteenth century compilation of texts concerning ritual, alchemical and meditation practices within Daoist religion.

Strange Histories is an exploration of some of the most extraordinary beliefs that existed in the late Middle Ages through to the end of the seventeenth century.

The twentieth anniversary edition of The Spiral Dance celebrates the pivotal role the book has had in bringing Goddess worship to the religious forefront.

Encyclopaedia Of Jainism Iscompiled, Edited And Arranged In Alphabetical Order By A Renowned Orientalist Who Has Recreated With All The Splendour And Mystery Of Its Oriental Background.

The Parsis are India's smallest minority community, yet they have exercised a huge influence on the country.

What a Confucian constitutional government might look like in China's political futureAs China continues to transform itself, many assume that the nation will eventually move beyond communism and adopt a Western-style democracy.

This book is the first socio-intellectual history of the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan (Zen), a new lineage of Buddhism founded by the late Chinese Buddhist cleric, Sheng Yen (1931-2009)-arguably one of the most influential Chan masters in contemporary times.

First published in 1906, these four lectures were originally delivered in the Vacation Term for Biblical Study at Cambridge.

Drawing on South and East Asian philosophies and medicines, this book illustrates how our bodies and minds are influenced by our actions, habits, aging, trauma and thought patterns.

This updated encyclopedia examines the basics of nutrition and dieting, presenting the important people, concepts, and criticisms involved and examining the pros and cons of different plans.