Eclectic & Esoteric Religions & Belief Systems

This book explores stage conjuring during its golden age, from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmati...

This book delves into the critical question of how counseling can help individuals navigate and resolve these struggles. It prioritizes the true ex...

Black magic, occult practices and witchcraft still evoke huge curiosity, interest and amazement in the minds of people. Although witchcraft in Euro...

This title was first published in 2001: Engaging contemporary discussion concerning the validity of mystical experiences of God, Jerome Gellman pre...

Arguably no modern ideology has diffused as fast as Socialism. From the mid-nineteenth century to the last quarter of the twentieth socialist ideal...

The resurgence of religiosity in post-communist Europe has been widely noted, but the full spectrum of religious practice in the diverse countries ...

This monograph focuses on Christian Goddess Spirituality (CGS), the phenomenon of (mostly) women who combine Christianity and Goddess Spirituality,...

This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the anthropological study of religion. It examines religious expression from a cross-cu...

This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and media in China, bringing interdisciplinary approaches to bear on the role of religion in th...

The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and certain other works of fantasy and science fiction have inspired some of their readers and viewers to believe...

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive drink used for healing and divination among religious groups in the Brazilian Amazon. 'Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion i...

Many Peoples, Many Faiths places the worlds religions in historical context, illustrating the complex dynamic of each religion over time, while als...

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...

'It is a Lord of the Flies parable with Bhagwan as lord. The book is a fascinating social history, with many celebrities, from Diana Ross to Prince...