Other Practices category: 2998 books
by Mark Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
What is Anglicanism? How is it different from other forms of Christianity, and how did it come to have so many different versions throughout the world? Although originally united by location and a common belief, Anglicanism has gradually lost its pre-eminence as the English state church due to increasing...
The Devil's Delusion
Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Bestselling author David Berlinski's wise and witty assault on the pretensions of the scientific atheists
Militant atheism is on the rise. In recent years Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have produced a steady stream of best-selling books denigrating religious...
by Damon Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
DEISM (Lat. deus, god), strictly the belief in one supreme God. It is however the received name for a current of rationalistic theological thought which, though not confined to one country, or to any well-defined period, was most conspicuous in England in the last years of the 17th and the first...
by Michael Kirwan
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
“Really wonderful; an elegantly written initiation into the mimetic theory. I am lucky to have interpreters who understand what I want to say and who can write so well.”
—René Girard
The work of René Girard is hugely influential in literature and cultural studies. But it is in understanding...
Drawing Down the Moon
Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Now fully revised-the classic study of Neo-Paganism
Almost thirty years since its original publication, Drawing Down the Moon continues to be the only detailed history of the burgeoning but still widely misunderstood Neo- Pagan subculture. Margot Adler attended ritual gatherings and interviewed...
Jesus Through Pagan Eyes: Bridging Neopagan Perspectives with a Progressive Vision of Christ
Bridging Neopagan Perspectives with a Progressive Vision of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
“Compelling and provocative . . . a major contribution to freeing Jesus for the interreligious and the non-religious world that is emerging.”—John Shelby Spong, author of Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World
Townsend, a former vicar of the Church of England, offers an historically...
Secret Brotherhoods
And the Mystery of the Humandouble
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In the age of the internet and the proliferation of 'conspiracy theories', the idea that secret groups are seeking to gain control over humanity is no longer uncommon. This was not the case in 1917, however, when Rudolf Steiner spoke on this theme in these extraordinary lectures. His unique contribution...
by Jeff Malone
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
This book covers several topics including:
Chapter 1: The Basics Of Spiritual Discovery
Chapter 2: About Meditation
Chapter...
Abandoned Ship
An Intimate Account of the Costa Concordia Shipwreck
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
On January 13, 2012, the Costa Concordia — a thousand foot long luxury cruise ship, twice the size of the Titanic — ventured into shallow water and smashed into the rocks of a tiny island off the coast of Italy, throwing the four thousand passengers and crew members into a state of chaos. The...
by John Henry Newman
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
THE Sermons here republished were written and preached at various periods between the years 1825 and 1843.
The first six volumes are reprinted from the six volumes of “Parochial Sermons;” the seventh and eighth formed the fifth volume of “Plain Sermons, by Contributors to the Tracts for...
Love, Love, Love
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
In forty-three brief essays from the life of a philosopher, Charles Taliaferro guides us toward the heart of human being in all of its absurdity and joy. Electrocuted by his coffee maker during class, battling dragons on his rooftop, and accompanying his father to the border between life and death,...
Nagô Grandma and White Papa
Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes Beatriz Gois Dantas's historioethnographic study available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.
Dantas compares the formation...
by Mel White
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
In 2006 Religion Gone Bad was released by the Penguin Company. In light of Donald Trump’s election and the rapid turn to the right of millions of American voters, the author is convinced that it is urgent that we release a new edition of Religion Gone Bad as Six Angry Evangelicals.
The best-selling...
The Fundamentals of Extremism
The Christian Right in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
On September 11, 2001, Americans witnessed horrific carnage inspired by religious extremism. We saw religious fundamentalists will stop at nothing to reign terror on those they regard as their enemies. In our response, we began to focus on the oppressive treatment of women and children in other...