Other religions and spiritual beliefs

How have the goddesses of ancient myth survived, prevalent even now as literary and cultural icons?

How have the goddesses of ancient myth survived, prevalent even now as literary and cultural icons?

Christianity and Confucianism: Culture, Faith and Politics, sets comparative textual analysis against the backcloth of 2000 years of cultural, political, and religious interaction between China and the West.

Christianity and Confucianism: Culture, Faith and Politics, sets comparative textual analysis against the backcloth of 2000 years of cultural, political, and religious interaction between China and the West.

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.

Isaiah in the New Testament brings together a set of specially commissioned studies by authors who are experts in their field.

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Witchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European imagination and in its cultures.

In the religions of the world, there is strongemphasis on the practice of "purification" for the religious transformation ofmind and body in connection with achieving such ultimate objectives asenlightenment and salvation.

In the religions of the world, there is strongemphasis on the practice of "purification" for the religious transformation ofmind and body in connection with achieving such ultimate objectives asenlightenment and salvation.

The role of human sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world and its implications continue to be topics that fire the popular imagination and engender scholarly discussion and controversy.

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.

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.

In a riveting first-person account, Todd Ramon Ochoa explores Palo, a Kongo-inspired "e;society of affliction"e; that is poorly understood at the margins of Cuban popular religion.

This innovative cultural history examines wide-ranging issues of religion, politics, and identity through an analysis of the American Indian Ghost Dance movement and its significance for two little-studied tribes: the Shoshones and Bannocks.

This is an insightful, highly original ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia.

In this collection of illuminating conversations, renowned historian of world religions Huston Smith invites ten influential American Indian spiritual and political leaders to talk about their five-hundred-year struggle for religious freedom.

What did the Romans know about their gods?

This innovative work on Chinese concepts of the afterlife is the result of Stephen Bokenkamp's groundbreaking study of Chinese scripture and the incorporation of Indic concepts into the Chinese worldview.

This first Western-language translation of one of the great books of the Daoist religious tradition, the Taiping jing, or "e;Scripture on Great Peace,"e; documents early Chinese medieval thought and lays the groundwork for a more complete understanding of Daoism's origins.

Among maternal deities of the Greek pantheon, the Mother of the Gods was a paradox.

In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers.

Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature.

How is religious experience to be identified, described, analyzed and explained?

Examines the role of spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of complex societies, using Çatalhöyük, as a case study.

Examines the role of spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of complex societies, using Çatalhöyük, as a case study.

Explores the parallels between the Odyssey and genres of myth extant in various Near Eastern cultures, in particular the Bible.

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

Explores the parallels between the Odyssey and genres of myth extant in various Near Eastern cultures, in particular the Bible.

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

Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets.

This book examines early Confucianism as a form of virtue ethics and Mohism as a version of consequentialism.

This 2007 book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas.

Selection of translated texts focusing primarily on political institutions and political activity in ancient Greece.

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This book is exclusively devoted to demonic possession and exorcism in early modern England.

This book explores the contrast between our modern understanding of free speech and that of the ancient Athenians.

Marsden''s 2005 book is a powerful contribution to the understanding of religion in the Muslim societies of southern Asia and beyond.

Introduces the many strands of Confucianism in a style accessible to students and general readers.

This major addition to Blackwell s Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period.

A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the sprawling landscape of the Roman religion.

THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO EASTERN CHRISTIANITY Consistently highly readable and engrossing.

Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magic possible in ancient Greece.

This book, 'Confucius Deconfused' contains the sayings and quotes of Confucius, probably the biggest collection of Confucius quotes, with around 900 of them.

This book explores representations of Obeah - a name used in the English/Creole-speaking Caribbean to describe various African-derived, syncretic Caribbean religious practices - across a range of prose fictions published in the twentieth century by West Indian authors.

This book explores representations of Obeah - a name used in the English/Creole-speaking Caribbean to describe various African-derived, syncretic Caribbean religious practices - across a range of prose fictions published in the twentieth century by West Indian authors.

Science and Magic in the Modern World is a unique text that explores the role of magical thinking in everyday life.