Other Practices category: 2998 books
Diary Of A Gay Priest
The Tightrope Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Malcolm Johnson has been an Anglican priest for fifty years working in the East End and in the City of London. Openly gay for most of this time, he has never been far from controversy. As rector of St Botolph Aldgate he was particularly involved with homelessness, HIV/AIDS and education. Because of his...
Native Spirit
The Sun Dance Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2007
The words of Thomas Yellowtail, a revered Sun Dance chief of the Crow Indian tribe, are brought to life by the internationally known American Indian actor, Gordon Tootoosis. The book is illustrated with over 100 previously unpublished color and sepia photographs from as early as 1903 and traditional...
The Square and the Tower
Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
**The instant New York Times bestseller.
A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks.
“Captivating and compelling.” —The New York Times
"Niall...
by Robin Simson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
"Privately, I suspected there was some force that drove human existence. I felt it in me and outside me, all around me, and in all living things." To and From God is one man's spiritual journey from "Churchie" Anglican schoolboy in Australia to agnostic environmental activist. In this refreshingly honest...
by James Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This often humorous, occasionally sad and emotional memoir begins in the 1800's; but most of the action takes place on post-war Chalmers Street in the small, predominantly protestant Canadian textile town of Galt in Southern Ontario. Older brother Jim is the lead voice with numerous injections, in...
Il ritorno del dio che balla
Culti e riti del Tarantolismo in Italia
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Le tradizioni popolari legate al tarantolismo hanno generato culti e riti che hanno dato vita ad alcune delle più vitali musiche e danze popolari: tammurriate, tarantelle e pizziche, il cui rinnovato interesse tra i giovani sta suscitando un forte richiamo internazionale. L'autore analizza l'evoluzione...
The Young Atheist's Handbook
Lessons for Living a Good Life Without God
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Growing up in a strict Muslim community in south-east London, Alom Shaha learnt that religion was not to be questioned. Reciting the Qur'an without understanding what it meant was simply a part of life; so, too, was obeying the imam and enduring beatings when he failed to attend the local mosque....
Le case massoniche della Urbs
Il patrimonio del Grande Oriente d'Italia: Palazzo Giustiniani
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Una ampia ed analitica disamina della costituzione e dell'accrescimento di un considerevole patrimonio acquisito nel tempo con pazienza e lungimiranza dai costruttori di cattedrali che hanno preso ad innalzare Templi ma questa volta non più per altri ma per se stessi. Analisi condotta con metodo...
by Alison Games
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Witchcraft in Early North America investigates European, African, and Indian witchcraft beliefs and their expression in colonial America. Alison Games's engaging book takes us beyond the infamous outbreak at Salem, Massachusetts, to look at how witchcraft was a central feature of colonial societies...
The Return of Odin
The Modern Renaissance of Pagan Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
A controversial examination of the influence and presence of the Norse god Odin in contemporary history and culture
• Documents Odin’s role in the rise of Nazi Germany, the 1960s counterculture revolution, nationalist and ecological political movements, and the occult revival
•...
The Rosicrucians
The History, Mythology, and Rituals of an Esoteric Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
This scholarly work traces the mysterious Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, from its inception upon the discovery of Father Christian Rosenkreuz's perfectly preserved body in a seven-sided vault to present-day organizations in America. McIntosh includes a survey of Rosicrucianism in America, exploring...
by Gordon Strong
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
The Esoteric Order of The Golden Dawn was a school of magic, founded during the late nineteenth century, one vowing to reveal all manner of occult knowledge to its members. Celebrated among these were Florence Farr, W.B Yeats, Charles Williams, A.E. Waite and Pamela Colman-Smith. Its figurehead, the...
by Robert Lomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Many people have heard of Freemasonry, but few have any idea what it is, what it does, or why it exists. Freemasonry is not a religion, but rather a spiritual self-help society whose declared purpose is to help members become better citizens, and it has a strong track record of doing just that since...
by Gary Wonning
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Throughout man's long history on earth,there has been one group of people who have carried the torch of liberty and freedom throughout the ages , from time immemorial until the present day. In these days their counsel is need more than ever.