Other Practices category: 2998 books
Wicca
History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The past century has borne witness to a growing interest in the belief systems of ancient Europe. By far the largest and best known of these Paganisms has been Wicca, a new religious movement that can now count hundreds of thousands of adherents worldwide. Wicca was first presented as the survival...
by Leo Louis Martello
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Weird Ways of Witchcraft is the story of the radical Leo Louis Martello, founder of the Witches' Anti-Defamation League. A pioneer in the Witches Liberation Movement of the 1960s, Martello was one of the most controversial members of the pagan community.Martello was an outspoken witch who raged...
Pop! Goes the Witch
The Disinformation Guide to 21st Century Witchcraft
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Fiona Horne—bestselling author and popular media personality—has compiled the ultimate insight into modern Witchcraft. Continuing the successful, oversize Disinformation Guide anthology format, an all-star cast of Witches and Wiccans cover an amazing array of topics.
by Trevor Greenfield
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
In the sixty years following the publication of Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft Today, new paths have appeared, and older ones emerged out of the shadow of repression and illegality, to express with a new and more confident voice their beliefs and practice, and share, with a steadily growing audience, their...
by Peter William Clement
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Because Catholic Theologians consciously fail to revise and rebuild the intellectual architecture of their faith -- and because they deliberately refuse to accommodate the discoveries of science over the 3000 years since their God was invented by a tribe of unenlightened shepherds and farmers , they...
by Barbara Brown Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1998
“Reading of God's silence in the Bible gives me courage to explore the practice of restraint in preaching—not as a deliberate withholding of God's word nor, I hope, as a rationale for my own reticence, but as a sober reaching for more reverence in the act of public speaking about God.”
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Brightest and Best
A Companion to the Lesser Feasts and Fasts
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1998
In these meditations on the lesser feasts and fasts of the church calendar Sam Portaro asks the question, “What do these saints and commemorations have to say to Christians today?” His answers are often surprising and always thought-provoking, with fresh insights into the lives and teachings of...
by J. Michelet
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
A book written in the early 1800’s, La Sorcière gives us an insight into thinking of that time period concerning where the power of witches comes from. Although most contemporary witches will deny the presence of Satan or demons as their power source, the thinking of the Christian church would...
by Gopi Krishna
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This book, based on both the author’s extensive experience and much scholarly research, explores the complex terrain of Yoga and its controlling principle, Kundalini Shakti, in the light of modern knowledge. He surveys the real aim of Yoga, how it can be achieved and describes the various steps...
The True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order
An Interpretation of the Rosicrucian Allegory & An Explanation of the Ten Rosicrucian Grades
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1989
This is a thorough presentation of the Rosicrucian system of Initiation by Dr. Paul Foster Case. He explains that Rosicrucianism is based upon earthly organizations, but on personal unflodment, and clearly describes the distinctive marks of a Rosicrucian. The treatise is divided into two main parts...
The Soul of the Night
An Astronomical Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Probing the depths of science and faith, scientist Chet Raymo investigates the mysteries of human spirituality and meaning contained in astronomy. Ranging through the stars and the myths humans have told about them for millennia, Raymo delves into “a pilgrimage in quest of the soul of the night.”
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There Is No God and He Is Always with You
A Search for God in Odd Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Can you be an atheist and still believe in God? Can you be a true believer and still doubt? Can Zen give us a way past our constant fighting about God? Brad Warner was initially interested in Buddhism because he wanted to find God, but Buddhism is usually thought of as godless. In the three decades...
She Who Prays
A Woman's Interfaith Prayer Book
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
She Who Prays: A Woman’s Interfaith Prayer Book offers women a new way to pray. Drawing on feminine images of God – and on the language and experience of women – it helps women tap into their own rich and unique spirituality. Readers will find a wealth of prayers from a variety of traditions...
Organic God
Lenten Meditations on the Words of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
In these Lenten meditations, Kate Moorehead devotes each of the seven weeks to a theme that Jesus addressed frequently, particularly through Earth-centered parables of planting. Each day of the week she explores an aspect of the particular theme. Seeking meaning in the details, the secrets of God's...