Other religions and spiritual beliefs

An accessible and international look at what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist today.

First Published in 2000.

Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands.

This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from the fourth century BCE China, called the Stalk Divination Method (Shifa).

Reach Your Zen Moment!

The Secret of Everlasting Life is the first translation from the Chinese of the second-century Can Tong Qi.

The societies of the Vaupes region are now among the most documented indigenous cultures of the New World, in part because they are thought to resemble earlier civilizations lost during initial colonial conflict.

This book explores the role of altered states of consciousness in the communication of social and emotional energies, both on a societal level and between individual persons.

How the I Ching became one of the most widely read and influential books in the worldThe I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago.

This book puts forward a revisionist view of Japanese wartime thinking.

This book provides a detailed history of Hindu goddess traditions with a special focus on the local goddesses of Andhra Pradesh, past and present.

The South Asian Christian diaspora is largely invisible in the literature about religion and migration.

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.

Guru Nanak had gifted the Sikhs with an ideology.

Shinto - A Short History provides an introductory outline of the historical development of Shinto from the ancient period of Japanese history until the present day.

Primary texts in yoga, from ancient times to todayYoga is a body of practice that spans two millennia and transcends the boundaries of any single religion, geographic region, or teaching lineage.

This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and media in China, bringing interdisciplinary approaches to bear on the role of religion in the lives of individuals and greater shifts within Chinese society in an increasingly media-saturated environment.

Jerrold E.

Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Oyotunji African Village.

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing.

Personhood and relationality have re-animated debate in and between many disciplines.

Over recent decades, historians have become increasingly interested in early modern Catholic missions in Asia as laboratories of cultural contact.

The World of the Baha'i Faith is an outstanding guide to the Baha'i Faith and its culture in all its geographical and historical diversity.

This second volume builds upon the core themes explored in volume one, which focused on 'Managing Responsibly for Sustainable Business Development in the VUCA World'.

Sexual techniques and traditional Chinese medicine for increased pleasure *; Reveals how to enhance relationships by harmonizing male and female energies *; Includes easy-to-follow, illustrated acupressure massage routines *; Shows how to maintain sexual health with prostate massage and jade egg exercises Taught to Chinese emperors, their wives, and their concubines for thousands of years, Taoist sexual techniques help lovers harmonize their cycles of pleasure and utilize the abundance of reproductive power that is otherwise wasted in non-procreative sex.

This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvarthadhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text that presented the Jaina worldview in a clear and systematic way.

Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China.

Jarrod L.

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Why do twins remain uncanny to those born alone-in other words, most of us?

This book examines the Hebrew Bible''s numerous laws about sacrificial procedure to understand the significance of gender in sacrificial rituals.

The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions presents critical research, overviews, and case studies on religion in historical South Asia, in the seven nation states of contemporary South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, and in the South Asian diaspora.

The financial crisis of 2008 has led to a re-evaluation of the role of financial institutions and their relationship with the wider economy and society.

While the atonement is a central component of Christianity, there is little agreement in the tradition about how it should be understood.

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.

In Obeah and Other Powers, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions-such as obeah, Vodou, and Santeria-have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century.

This book formulates a new pedagogy of death with regard to Northeast India and shows how this pedagogy offers an understanding of alternative knowledge systems and epistemes.

Drawing on Indigenous methodologies, this book uses a close analysis of James R.

Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China.

This is the remarkable true story of a young man's initiation in the Himalayas.

Native Americans and Canadians are largely romanticised or sidelined figures in modern society.

A guide to the seemingly effortless yet explosively powerful martial art techniques of Fa Jin *; Explains how to collect energy within and discharge it for self-defense as well as healing *; Explores how to counter the natural instinct to resist force with force and develop yielding softness through the 13 Original Movements of Tai Chi *; Illustrates routines for the partner practice of ';Push Hands' (Tui Shou) Fa Jin, an advanced yang style of Tai Chi, complements the physical, mental, and spiritual conditioning available through solo Tai Chi practice and the internal martial arts of Taoism.

A broad history of ancient Jewish magic from the Second Temple to the rabbinic period.

Joseph Campbell (1904-1988) was one of the most well-known and popular scholars of myth and comparative religion of the twentieth century.

A radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts as shamanic mystical wisdom rather than funerary rituals*; Reveals the mystical nature of Egyptian civilization denied by orthodox Egyptologists*; Examines the similarity between the pharaoh's afterlife voyage and shamanic journeying*; Shows shamanism to be the foundation of the Egyptian mystical traditionTo the Greek philosophers and other peoples of the ancient world, Egypt was regarded as the home of a profound mystical wisdom.