Other Practices category: 2998 books
Freethought Resource Guide
A Directory of Information, Literature, Art, Organizations, & Internet Sites Related to Secular Humanism, Skepticism, Atheism, & Agnosticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The Freethought Resource Guide is a first-stop directory to carefully vetted, selected, arranged, recommended, and synopsized references to a wide variety of items that are of the highest quality, historical importance, and/or greatest utility to freethinkers. The guide begins by articulating freethought...
by Westminster Assembly
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
In 1643 when the Long Parliament of England called the Westminster Assembly to produce the Westminster Confession, it also asked for a directory of "catechising". The Assembly asked Herbert Palmer to produce a draft of the Larger Catechism. Robert Baillie and other Scottish delegates found...
by Jonathan MS Pearce, Ed Buckner, Dale McGowan
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Atheism is an evolving worldview - not the single proposition that God does not exist, but everything else that might or might not go with it. With only a single sentence about the existence of single entity, there is huge scope - necessity, even - for having to reasonably work everything else out....
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Learn About The Life Of Richard Dawkins And Modern Science In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!!Brief Candle in the Dark: My life in Science is a greatly interesting book. From one who doesn't understand the deeper biological systems and natural selection, genetics...
Divorcing a Real Witch
for Pagans and the People that Used to Love Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Divorcing a Real Witch addresses the painful emotional journey of divorce from a Wiccan perspective. Along with sharing her own experience, author Diana Rajchel solicits the experiences and advice of other Pagans on how to handle this life passage.
by Kerry Butters
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Mathew Hopkins, Witchfinder General. Matthew Hopkins is perhaps the most notorious name in the history of English witchcraft, more commonly he was known as “The Witch-Finder General”. Throughout his reign of terror 1645-1646, Hopkins acquired a feared and evil reputation as a ‘fingerman’ (informer),...
Neighbors, Strangers, Witches, and Culture-Heroes
Ritual Powers of Smith/Artisans in Tuareg Society and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
This book examines alleged “superhuman” powers predominantly associated with smith/artisans in five African societies. It discusses their ritual and social roles, mythico-histories, symbols surrounding their art, and changing relationships between these specialists and their patrons. Needed but...
The Land Looks After Us
A History of Native American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Native Americans practice some of America's most spiritually profound, historically resilient, and ethically demanding religions. Joel Martin draws his narrative from folk stories, rituals, and even landscapes to trace the development of Native American religion from ancient burial mounds, through...
by Kosi Sunyata
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
This little book packs a punch. It is the code breaker of enlightenment that reveals the genetics of suffering and how to break free of patterns of fear, sadness, anxiety and other forms of suffering. This book has an unexpected twist that offers shockingly simple and deep teaching. Thoughtout the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This collection features more than two dozen narratives by atheists from different backgrounds across the United States. Ranging in age, race, sexual orientation, and religious upbringing, these individuals address deconversion, community building, parenting, and romantic relationships, providing...
Ayahuasca
Soul Medicine of the Amazon Jungle. A Comprehensive and Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
**"**I highly recommended this book for anyone wishing to work with this plant in a safe and professional manner." - Noel Sweeney (5 star review)
Ayahuasca is a traditional spiritual medicine used by the indigenous people in South America. While it is largely used during shamanistic...
Secrets of the Shaman
Further Explorations with the Leader of a Group Practicing Shamanism
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Secrets Of The Shaman is a follow-up book to The Shaman Warrior, in which the author, Gini Graham Scott, a sociologist/anthropologist, describes her experiences in studying personally with Michael Fairwell, the shaman teacher she first met at a magical encampment. After she joined his group and studied...
Provocations
Don't Call Them Libertarians, AA Lies, and Other Incitements
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Provocations is a collection of Chaz Bufe’s writings on anarchism, atheism, religion, Alcoholics Anonymous, political and religious cults, new age nuttiness, political and social repression in the United States, the phoniness of contemporary “libertarianism,” and roads to change. The tone ranges...
by Stanislaw Kapuscinski (aka Stan I.S. Law)
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
The book, the author writes, is: “Dedicated to Richard Dawkins, in gratitude for many hours of enjoyable reading. While he and I don’t always see eye to eye, the doctor might find, here, additional arguments for his Cause Célèbre.”
The author goes on to advance compelling arguments...