Ancient Religions & Mythologies

The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might seem abstraction...

A Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view of our modern cond...

A fascinating exploration of the Goddesses, and women of Greek mythology, in relation to the astrological signs. Offering a new and insightful dis...

As Christian spaces and agents assumed prominent positions in civic life, the end of the long span of the fourth century was marked by large-scale ...

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasnt absent frombut rather was at the heart ofRoman religionB...

Making a foundational contribution to Mesoamerican studies, this book explores Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptures, as well as indigenous and ...

In Maya theology, everything from humans and crops to gods and the world itself passes through endless cycles of birth, maturation, dissolution, de...

From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the Problem of Paganism, w...

The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this bo...

Take the Next Step... Clear away the outdated clutter that has obscured the power and beauty of the Golden Dawn magical system and feel for yoursel...

The most popular devotional text recounting the adventures of the Hindu god RamThe Ramcharitmanas, composed by the poet-saint Tulsidas in the sixte...

The Religious History of the Roman Empire: The Republican Centuries is the second Oxford Readings in Classical Studies volume on the religious hist...

Divination was an important and distinctive aspect of religion in both ancient China and ancient Greece, and this book will provide the first syste...

The Latin Bible stands at the heart of Western culture. For almost fifteen hundred years, it was the principal source for scholars, philosophers, a...

Mani, a third-century preacher, healer and public sage from Sasanian Mesopotamia, lived at a pivotal time and place in the development of the major...

In a moonlit graveyard somewhere in southern Italy, a soldier removes his clothes in readiness to transform himself into a wolf. He depends upon th...

Step into a world of gods, heroes and monstersThroughout history, mythologies have been fundamental to societies and cultures across the world. The...