Alternative Belief Systems

This book provides a timely reappraisal of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of art the naked body.Beginning with reflections on wh...

Spirited Histories combines ethnography with critical theory to provide a sophisticated exploration of the intersection of haunting and the paranor...

The notion of the deification of the human person (theosis, theopoièsis, deificatio) was one of the most fundamental themes of Christian theology i...

Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host ...

The search for an adequate understanding of the New Age phenomenon is fraught with difficulties when examined within the perspectives of sociology ...

This collection of essays explores the rhetoric and practices surrounding views on life after death and the end of the world, including the fate of...

The American publics perception of New Religious Movements (NRMs) as fundamentally harmful cults stems from the anticult movement of the 1970s, whi...

Chromatius of Aquileia and the Making of a Christian City examines how the increasing authority of institutionalized churches changed late antique ...

This book reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became se...

This book reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became se...