Other religions and spiritual beliefs Books

No sooner had northern Malawians started to become Christians in the late 19th century, than they began to compose hymns. Rather than attempting rational discourse or literary production, their first instinct was to sing and dance their faith. In this...

This book describes itself as: 'a cultural, psychological study of the way Christian Malawians account for their involvement in African traditional religion'. It is a qualitative study of how Christians manage to be at the same time involved in African...

This book sets out, translates into English and interprets the key documents and texts of the African Ancestors Religion. It contextualises the movement within Malawi's new religious movements and conflicts between tradition and modernisation. It argues...

Bigu is an ancient Taoist fasting method practiced to achieve good health, longevity, and immortality.The book is based on traditional Chinese medical knowledge and ancient Chinese cultural beliefs combined with the author's experience gained over a...

The rational, the mental, and the intellect have increasingly taken over our modern lives, leaving no room for the intuition, the sacred or the magical. We have lost the ability to observe the signs and messages of the world. This book invites us to...

In Patriots Betrayed: A Soldier, Scholar, Spy's Warning about America's Leadership Crisis, a West Point graduate and former FBI Special Agent, who is currently under an unconstitutional investigation by the corrupt FBI, exposes the corruption and...

When the author was a child, her German grandmother would call her ‘my Hawaiian maiden’, which Cornelia thought was simply because of her long, sun-sparkled brown hair.  In elementary school, she came across the book The Life of...

Monica Furlong followed Watts's travels conducting interviews with his family, colleagues, and intimate friends, to provide an analysis of the intellectual, cultural, and deeply personal influences behind this truly extraordinary life.

Born with amazing paranormal abilities. Rose survives her terrible life with the help of her spirit guide, Black Elk. Using his world renowned vision of spiritual truth, Black Elk teaches Rose who she really is and the divine purpose of her life,...

The book explores marketing as a genuine component of religious traditions. It investigates the theme across a large historic and geographical area, as well as a variety of expressions.

The book describes how Buddhism integrated into the Chinese culture by accepting good teachings from the Chinese philosophy such as filial piety because it is an important moral teaching in Confucianism and it has shaped nearly every aspect of Chinese...

The Economic Principles of Confucius and His School is a unique work. The author, Chen Huan-Chang, was a civil servant in the last years of the Qing Empire. After a traditional education in classical Chinese, Chen befriended and became a student of the...

This is the first English-language book on the philosophy of Ji Kang. Moreover, it offers the first systematic treatment of his philosophy, thus filling a significant gap in English-language scholarship on early medieval Chinese literature and philosophy...

Avesta est le livre sacré du zoroastrisme, la religion antique de la Perse. Cette édition de 1881 est une traduction en français de l'Avesta et comprend une introduction détaillée sur l'histoire et la philosophie de la religion zoroastrienne. Ce livre...

Servants of the Sacred Dream explores the rebirth of the feminine into individual and collective consciousness, and its importance to women at a time when the unquestionable power and authority of the patriarchy is on the wane.Re-emergence of the deep...

"In our time when so much emphasis is on the quick and the facile, the glamorous and the trendy, John Matthews offers something deep and lasting. He bridges the ancient wisdoms of our past and the possibilities of our future. He calls himself a shaman,...

How the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh functions in the daily life of Bahá'ís.. . . the Báb says that every religion of the past was fit to become universal.  The only reason why they failed to attain that...

In this wonderfully practical and human book, we are invited to turn our attention towards investigating our spiritual reality. Ronald Tomanio, Diane Iverson and Phyllis Ring describe how that experience is met and encountered and why it is indescribably...

Revealed by Baha'u'llah in Adrianople and sent to Mirza Ahmad Yazdi who was travelling from Baghdad to see Him, the Tablet of Ahmad is one of the prayers identified by Shoghi Effendi as having been invested with a 'special potency and significance'.H...

A straightforward account of the life and times of Bahá'u'lláh, written in a crisp, easily readable style.

A biographical essay of the wife of Bahá'u'lláh, the Founder of the Bahá'í Faith, and mother of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, the Centre of Bahá'u'lláh's Covenant. Her story, little known, is one of strength, patience, long-suffering and devotion to One who was her...

J. A. McLean offers the readers personal reflections and analysis of the writings of the Bahá'í Faith, combined with insights gleaned from spiritual psychology, philosophical theology and the world's religions in order to map out dimensions in...

"Decoding The Dolphin's Breath" by O.M. Kelly (Omni) is a captivating exploration of the relationship between humans and dolphins. The booklet begins with a poignant account of a real-life encounter between the author and a group of wild dolphins,...

Mathematicians often use imaginary numbers to compute formulas that cannot be completed with real numbers. In the same way, modern philosophers and religious leaders sometimes use the imaginary philosophies of imaginary Indians to form a basis for their...

Ásatrú (AH-sa-troo), also called Odinism, is the native religion of the Teutonic peoples as embodied in the fundamentals of their cultural expressions. Much more than just a belief system, it encompasses every aspect of ancient Northern European society...

The transformations Buddhism has been undergoing in the modern age have inspired much research over the last decade. The main focus of attention has been the phenomenon known as Buddhist modernism, which is defined as a conscious attempt to adjust...

Addressing the question of the origins of the Zoroastrian religion, this book argues that the intransigent opposition to the cult of the daēvas, the ancient Indo-Iranian gods, is the root of the development of the two central doctrines of Zoroastrianism:...

The Book of Max takes readers deep into the rabbit hole of Max Keiser's mind. Take the orange pill and gain insights from Max's life and Bitcoin journey. Through quotes, memes, artwork and his predictions for the future, this book is unlike anything...

Die drei iranischen Religionen stehen in Wechselwirkung mit der Gesellschaft, die - geschichtlich und gegenwärtig - nicht auf das Staatsgebiet der heutigen Islamischen Republik Iran beschränkt ist. Der Zoroastrismus ist im ostiranischen Kulturraum, d.h...

There used to be the God called Ame-no-Mioya-Gami in Japan. He came from the Andromeda Galaxy to land on the foothills of Mt. Fuji about 30,000 years ago. Using his spiritual abilities, the author and spiritual leader Ryuho Okawa explored the mystery of...

Even the longest journey begins with a single breath... This user friendly guide to personal change and self-awakening contains simple, practical exercises designed to lead you, in your own terms, to the changes in life that you want, or support you in...

An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions...

Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and...

Used for more than seven hundred years as a teaching story, The Book of the Book is one of the most compelling and astonishing texts ever to emerge from the Orient. Its central premise is the simple phrase: 'When you realize the difference...

AMERICAN ENGLISH EDITION. In a darkened room a group of men once sought to examine an elephant. Taking hold of a different part - an ear, a leg, the tail - each one mistook his particular part for the whole. In the darkness, each of the men became...

First published in 1957, The Secret Lore of Magic contains within it a series of major source-books of magical arts. Many of them translated into English for the first time, these works are annotated and fully illustrated.The book's title in itself...

Warning: when you pop, you can’t stop!Like a famous brand of crisps, these stories are addictive.Read one, the saying goes, and you’ll be stuck reading seven.In fact, Mulla Nasrudin jokes function like memes – working their way into the...

Thinkers of the East is a collection of anecdotes and ‘parables in action’ illustrating the eminently practical and lucid approach of Eastern Dervish teachers.Distilled from the teachings of more than one hundred sages in three...

From the kitchen of a Persian Bahá'í living in Canada comes a collection of Persian recipes and cooking methods blended with ingredients, shortcuts, and adaptations from a mix of other cultures. Here you will learn how to reproduce uniquely Persian...

How to Live with the Energy of Love and PresenceThe Energy Teachings of The Three was dictated unexpectedly to the author by three entities during an initiation in Peru in 2012 where he had been in training for several years learning the Andean...

The Great Spirit Says: A Rainbow Warrior's Journey is a spiritual and detailed account of a personal shamanic journey to the universal mind. Drawing upon her life-changing out-of-body experience, author Jeanette Sacco-Belli shares how, through connecting...

This book fills a gap left by much critical scholarship on the Qur'ān, arguing that the earliest surahs are logical, clear, and intelligible compositions, and elucidating the apocalyptic context of the Qur'ān's most archaic layers.

The Srī Anand Sāhib is a prayer written by the third Sikh Gurū, Srī Gurū Amardās Jī and is the most commonly uttered prayer from the Srī Gurū Granth Sāhib Jī. This prayer is uttered at any religious Sikh event from births to death. There are many stories...