Alternative Belief Systems

Every year, in the heart of the Nile Delta, a festival takes place that was for centuries the biggest in the Muslim world: the mulid of al-Sayyid A...

In Europe and North and South America during the early modern period, people believed that their dreams might be, variously, messages from God, the...

The untold account of the countless Americans who believe in, or personally experience, paranormal phenomena such as ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs and psyc...

Worshippers of the Gods tells how the Latin writers who witnessed the political and social rise of Christianity rethought the role of traditional r...

The fundamental aims of this book are two: to explore the interaction between religion and secular society in the formation as well as the dissolut...

This terrific book is a guide to the occult world, featuring 10 itineraries and maps of magical tours across the globe. Spanning countries and cont...

Offers a full introduction to and survey of runes and runology: their history, how they were used, and their interpretation. Runes, often consider...

The untold account of the countless Americans who believe in, or personally experience, paranormal phenomena such as ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs and psyc...

The rehabilitation of Confucian tradition raised new challenges to Chinese feminist thinkers. Can a Confucian ideal of reciprocity help women reali...

Humanistic studies has been subjected to critiques from the inside of the university disciplines and shrinking support structures on the outside; m...