Networks, Entrepreneurship and Power in Contemporary Spirituality offers an in-depth analysis of the social organisation of New Age spirituality....Loe edasi...
This book explores how late antique miracle collections depict Christian saints as subversive, theatrical tricksters who blur the boundaries between sacred and profane, human and divine. Suitable for scholars and students of late antique Christianit...Loe edasi...
Currently, religion is severely underemphasized within the medical humanities, and this book forges direct engagements between the fields of medical and health humanities on one hand, and religious studies and theological studies on the other. This...Loe edasi...
This volume seeks to make the modern study of Western esotericism more widely known beyond specialist circles, while addressing a range of misconceptions, biases, and prejudices that still tend to surround it....Loe edasi...
This book explores the role of physical bodies, ritual technologies, healing practices, gender, and visual imagery in creating and sustaining religious meaning in antiquity. It is ideal for students and scholars working on the New Testament and earl...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the diversity of beliefs and practices around health and healing in minority religions from different perspectives. The contributors include academics from a variety of disciplines as well as members of minority religions....Loe edasi...
This book explores the role of millennialism, the Millerites, and prophecy in the historical development of the Baháí faith, especially in North America. The author demonstrates the importance of the Baháí religion to millennialism studies and its c...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) and charts the development of his teaching. It covers from 1922 when Krishnamurti claimed he was God until his death, including his declarations to be the World Teacher and eventual departure from...Loe edasi...
This book highlights some important continuities as well as differences between the teachings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), co-founder of the Theosophical Society in 1875, and Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986), the Theosophist who was train...Loe edasi...
Using Spirituality in Psychotherapy: The Heart Led Approach to Clinical Practice offers a means for therapists to integrate a spiritual perspective into their clinical practice....Loe edasi...
This book explores the QAnon movement by examining its history, fluctuations and evolution, stemming from the likelihood of multiple users behind the Q account, as well as from the changes in the sociopolitical landscape since the creation of the mo...Loe edasi...
This book calls for a reformation of the image of monotheism in studies of Japanese religions and in the study of religions in general. According to most scholars, Japan and monotheism mix like oil and water. Whatever Japanese religion is, we are to...Loe edasi...
This book is an extrapolation of the research Kelly conducted for the doctoral thesis about his peoples struggle to come to terms with native title claim processes, in which we are required to prove our connection to land, culture and kin....Loe edasi...
This volume investigates the origins of the Christian Science movement, illustrates how Eddys students -- mainly women -- helped its rapid spread through healings....Loe edasi...
Navigating a diversity of religious myths and worldviews in both conventional and nuanced secular ways, this edited volume explores transdisciplinary common knowledge and global citizenship ideology through the lens of spirituality, depth hermeneuti...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1936, the author investigates the working of the mind in various types of experiences, showing how sense and thought, volition and cognition, practice and theory, work together, as well in secular as in religious experiences....Loe edasi...
This book examines how the experience of witchcraft developed and evolved from the Lutheran Evangelical Reformation of Denmark 1536 to the celebration of the Lutheran centennial of 1617....Loe edasi...
This volume explores the global circulation of practices, technologies, and ideas identified as East Asian in alternative therapies and spiritual practices since the 1970s. Case studies range from the incorporation of traditional Chinese medicine in...Loe edasi...
This book delves into the critical question of how counseling can help individuals navigate and resolve these struggles. It prioritizes the true experts in this domainthe strugglers themselvesand provides an in-depth examination of their experiences...Loe edasi...
This fascinating book explores the concept of slow living, offering a philosophical and psychological exploration of the need for a slower pace of life. It advocates for reclaiming and rediscovering more natural and human ways of being....Loe edasi...
This book brings Maximus the Confessors logoi doctrine into dialogue with modern-day evolutionary biology. It explores the extent to which the logoi, as described by Maximus, exhibit features that are concordant with evolution before going on to con...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1932, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1931. The views of the universe as held by the great teachers of Ancient Alexandria are discussed: Philo, Clement, Origen, Plotinus and the Gnostics a...Loe edasi...
This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world....Loe edasi...
Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusive approach, drawing on contributions from different literary genres. This book is a timely contribu...Loe edasi...
Using the works and theories of Carl Gustav Jung and the astrologers Alan Leo, Dane Rudhyar and Liz Greene, this volume provides a cultural history of psychological astrology in the twentieth century, demonstrating the prevalence of magic in modern...Loe edasi...
Demons in the USA argues that a discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination....Loe edasi...
This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on Chilean ufology and the ufological absurd, nonsensical instances for their experiencers in which there is no conceptual way out....Loe edasi...
This Handbook provides readers, practitioners, and policy makers methods and approaches which can facilitate a spiritual and contemplative stance in research activities, and is an essential resource for researchers and students of Religion, Spiritua...Loe edasi...
Most studies of the Salem witch trials focus on social history and the dynamics between accused and accusers. Science and Specters at Salem turns instead to the intellectual background of the judges to understand why they accepted controversial type...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jun-2024, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003361367)
This new edition of Parapsychology continues to challenge and provoke readers with some of psychologys most puzzling phenomena. Whether believers or sceptics, the book provides readers with the opportunity to further their understanding of the paran...Loe edasi...
This engaging text introduces readers to the sociology of cults. Covering the history and current state of cult studies, this book includes topics ranging from doomsday cults and new religious movements through to self-help cults, the cult of celebr...Loe edasi...
This volume addresses the diversification of mental healthcare provision and patients health-seeking behavior by putting Brazilian Spiritism and its translocal relations at the center of its inquiry....Loe edasi...
This book examines the ways in which mysticism can tell us about translation and translation can tell us about mysticism, addressing the ancient but ongoing connections between the art of rendering one text in another language and the art of the ine...Loe edasi...
This book examines issues of leadership and succession in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) which was founded in by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1966....Loe edasi...
An essential reference source for cutting-edge scholarship on women/gender and philosophy in Greek antiquity. The volume features original research that crosses disciplines, offering readers an accessible guide to new methods, new sources, and new q...Loe edasi...
This book examines political nationalism in Japan through an in-depth analysis of the organisation, ideology and influence of Nippon Kaigi, the most significant nationalist pressure group in contemporary Japan....Loe edasi...
This volume offers the most comprehensive survey available of the philosophical background to the works of early Christian writers and the development of early Christian doctrine....Loe edasi...
Slavic Witches and Social Media examines the role of social media in the spiritual practices of modern Slavic witches and draws a comparative analysis between contemporary neopaganism and Catholicism in Poland....Loe edasi...
Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy & Casting the Witch for Stage & Screen addresses the Witch as a theatrical type on twenty-first century North American stages and screens, seen through the lens of casting, design, and adaptation, with attent...Loe edasi...
Including both traditional and underrepresented accounts and geographies of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in late antique history, philosophy, and theology, this volume offers substantial re-readings of these and related concepts through theorie...Loe edasi...
In The Foundations of the Composite Culture in India, the focus of the author is the process of establishment of Hindu-Muslim unity as a result of historical, social and cultural factors over a period of ten centuries....Loe edasi...
This volume explores aspects of ancient magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean, specifically ways in which religious and mythical ideas, including the knowledge and practice of magic, were transmitted and adapted through time and across Gre...Loe edasi...
This volume offers an accessible investigation of the Naassene discourse embedded in the anonymous Refutation of All Heresies (completed about 222 CE), in order to understand the theology and ritual life of the Naassene Christian movement in the lat...Loe edasi...
First published in 1981, Mind Over Matter stems from Kit Pedlers TV series of the same name and is an engrossing, open-minded survey of all aspects of the paranormal....Loe edasi...
First published in 1924, Memoirs of a Positivist is both an autobiography of the author and a history of the English Positivist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....Loe edasi...
This book offers a first-of-its-kind roadmap for thinking about complex encounters of religion and outer space. A multidisciplinary group of scholarly experts takes up some of the most intriguing scientific, spiritual, trade/commercial, and even mil...Loe edasi...
First published in 1978, Don Juan, Mescalito and Modern Magic aims to show that there is a basically Western shamanism which uses Western symbols and is easily accessible....Loe edasi...
