Other Practices category: 2998 books
If You Want to be a Witch
A Practical Introduction to the Craft
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Choosing the right book to learn about the Old Religion can be quite challenging. If You Want to Be a Witch is dedicated to those who want an easy-to-read, yet thorough, introduction to the Craft and its practices.
Filling in the gaps often found in other Wiccan guides, this primer explains...
Transformative Witchcraft
The Greater Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Beyond the Taboos, the Power of Magick Awaits
The rites and rituals of Witchcraft are life-changing experiences, but they are also steeped in mystery. Transformative Witchcraft delves into some of the most persistent mysteries of the Craft and provides insightful guidance for raising and directing...
by Donna Schaper
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1999
The third in Cowley's Cloister Book series, Sabbath Keeping is a collection of ten meditations, each exploring a different aspect of keeping the sabbath and ending with a prayer. Since it is a difficult art in a society that does not value rest, Schaper encourages small acts of sabbath keeping that...
Pagan Christmas
The Plants, Spirits, and Rituals at the Origins of Yuletide
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
An examination of the sacred botany and the pagan origins and rituals of Christmas
• Analyzes the symbolism of the many plants associated with Christmas
• Reveals the shamanic rituals that are at the heart of the Christmas celebration
The day on which many commemorate the...
Crow Jesus
Personal Stories of Native Religious Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Crow Christianity speaks in many voices, and in the pages of Crow Jesus, these voices tell a complex story of Christian faith and Native tradition combining and reshaping each other to create a new and richly varied religious identity. In this collection of narratives, fifteen members of the Apsáalooke...
Sharing Reality
How to Bring Secularism and Science to an Evolving Religious World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Religions are a natural outgrowth of the intuitive ways of knowing that evolved with human culture. Though many people continue to find value in religious identity and community, intuitive knowledge has been eclipsed by a more effective way of knowing—the scientific way. A better way of relating...
by haris rani
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
This book deals with the issue of who are we? and why we are here in this world? It aims to find the universal truth about our existence, the purpose of creation and the purpose of our lives. Questions which are crucial in today’s environments as we are living in times of ever increasing immoral...
A Legacy of Druids
Conversations With Druid Leaders Of Britain, The USA And Canada, Past And Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
A book of conversations with prominent Druids from across Britain, the USA and other countries whose voices describe the basic beliefs, practices and struggles of the emerging Druid faith. Conducted in person and online in the late 20th century, these collected conversations provide a historic window into the movers and shakers of the modern Druid world.
by James Garrard
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury 1828-1848, led the Church of England during the beginning and expansion of the Oxford Movement, at a time when the precursor to the Church Commissioners was established, and during the momentous debates and decisions in Parliament which saw the final retreat...
Victorian Reformation
The Fight Over Idolatry in the Church of England, 1840-1860
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
In early Victorian England there was intense interest in understanding the early Church as an inspiration for contemporary sanctity. This was manifested in a surge in archaeological inquiry and also in the construction of new churches using medieval models. Some Anglicans began to use a much more...
by Babar Javed
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
This book is about La Santa Muerte, also known alternatively as simply Santa Muerte (“Saint Death”), “The White Girl,” “The Bony Lady,” “la Flaquita,” “The Pretty Lady,” “The Skinny Lady,” “Our Godmother,” and even “Mother Death.” If you’re reading this description,...
The Faces of the Gods
Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyzes the mythology and rituals of Vodou, focusing particularly on the inclusion of West African and European elements in...
by Orunmilas Servant
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In this third and final installment to his series on life in service to the Orishas, author Orunmilas Servant channels and transcribes the thoughts of several of his Egguns, the joyful occult spirits who guide him and accompany him on his journey through Freemasonry, Santeria, and other spiritual...
Troublemaker
Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An eye-opening, no-holds-barred memoir about life in the Church of Scientology, now with a new afterword by the author—the outspoken actress and star of the A&E docuseries Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
Leah Remini has never been the type...