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Dive into the mystical world of traditional smoke rituals with "Sacred Smoke and Mountain Spirits: The Art of Appalachian Incense and Smudging," penned by Ivy Mae, known for her profound connection to Appalachian folklore and traditions. This...

The book is original (not "more of the same"). The author, as a mage, gave his personal perspective to the whole work.Does not include the dusty ancient rituals of the Golden Dawn, Jewish Goetia, or the egregore spells from HP Lovecraft's "Necronomicon."...

Handbook to Lothar Käser's Textbook "Animism - A Cognitive Approach". If we want to understand the animistic cognitive system we must focus particularly on its concept of man. Access to it can only be achieved by proceeding systematically. A basic...

To develop an attitude of gratitude; we need to express our gratefulness and be thankful for everything and for everyone. It should continue as a part of our lives, in every area of our lives. Psalms is a book in the Bible filled with thanksgiving and...

To develop an attitude of gratitude; we need to express our gratefulness and be thankful for everything and for everyone. It should continue as a part of our lives, in every area of our lives. Psalms is a book in the Bible filled with thanksgiving and...

To develop an attitude of gratitude; we need to express our gratefulness and be thankful for everything and for everyone. It should continue as a part of our lives, in every area of our lives. Psalms is a book in the Bible filled with thanksgiving and...

Imagine a world where everyone has access to all the stories of your ancestors, this would help you to connect to your lineage, heal relationships, and enable these stories to be passed down to future generations.In this book, I discuss real-life...

Ihin Rere Ti Johanu (1872) is a book in the Yoruba language by Charles Andrew Gollmer.This Book Is In Yoruba.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations...

Exu and the Quimbanda of Night and Fire is the companion to Pomba Gira. Together they give the most complete account of this sorcerous cult. Exu is the fusion of Umbanda, Angolan sorcery, European demonology and Kardec's Spiritsm, erupting in a...

The Matachines dance is a ritual drama performed on certain saint's days in Pueblo Indian and Mexicano/Hispano communities along the upper Río Grande valley in New Mexico and elsewhere in the American Southwest. It derives from a genre of...

This volume presents a social history of life in mid-19th-century Cuba as experienced by George Backhouse (and his wife, Grace), who served on the British Havana Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Documented with extracts from the...

From being characterized as 'primitive tribe' in the colonial imagination to become predominantly practitioners of the American Baptist faith, the Sumi Naga - formerly known as the Sema Naga - in the North-East Indian state of Nagaland have come a...

The dynamic nature of Christianity has necessitated its movement from the cathedral to the mountain top. This has occasioned a proliferation of Prayer Mountains throughout Africa. In Yorubaland of southwestern Nigeria, Prayer Mountain is known as Ori-Oke...

Grimoire entirely dedicated to the Afro-Brazilian Quimbanda.There are 143 pages of powerful content, including descriptions of the Kingdoms and phalanges of Quimbanda, the Chief Eshús and Pombagiras from each Realm.How to activate the sigils...

Are you ready to come into union with your divine energy and become more powerful than ever? In these pages, you'll learn the process of transforming yourself from an apathetic mind into an exhilarating God consciousness being with divine favor and...

In an incredible encounter with God, Abram opens his heart and shares a sincere, direct dialogue and shares his frustrations and anxieties. In shocking grace, the Lord, instead of rebuking him, calls Abram outside his tent, lifts his eyes to gaze into...

Voudou (an older spelling of voodoo)-a pantheistic belief system developed in West Africa and transported to the Americas during the diaspora of the slave trade-is the generic term for a number of similar African religions which mutated in the Americas,...

Randy Woodley, a Keetowah Cherokee, casts a biblical, multiethnic vision for people of every nation, tribe and tongue to live in community together. Includes a study guide.

Ihin Rere Ti Luku ni iwe yii to wa ni 1872 ni ojo ti o je Charles Andrew Gollmer ti o soro ni ede Yoruba. Iwe yii ni iwe ti o je awon ohun elo ti o dara lati owo awon eniyan ni ilu Luku. Ni iwe yii, Gollmer ti se awon ohun elo ti o dara lati owo awon...

Christianity spread across North Africa early, and it remained there as a powerful force much longer than anticipated. While this African form of Christianity largely shared the Latin language and Roman culture of the wider empire, it also represented a...

The first book to compare Cuban American and African American religiosity, Afro-Cuban Theology argues that Afro-Cuban religiosity and culture are central to understanding the Cuban and Cuban American condition. Gonzalez interprets this saturation of the...

In contemporary Indian Country, many of the people who identify as "American Indian" fall into the "urban Indian" category: away from traditional lands and communities, in cities and towns wherein the opportunities to live one's identity as Native can be...

The <b>Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions</b>, the second volume in the acclaimed <i>Religion and Society</i> series, breaks fresh ground on the subject of African and African-American religion and its...

Drawing on literary, musical, and visual representations of and by Rastafari, Darren J. N. Middleton provides an introduction to Rasta through the arts, broadly conceived. The religious underpinnings of the Rasta movement are often overshadowed by...

Tsuni-llgoam: The Supreme Being Of The Khoi-Khoi (1881) is a book written by Theophilus Hahn that explores the religious beliefs and practices of the Khoi-Khoi people of South Africa. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the Khoi-Khoi's...

The Matachines dance is a ritual drama performed on certain saint's days in Pueblo Indian and Mexicano/Hispano communities along the upper Río Grande valley in New Mexico and elsewhere in the American Southwest. It derives from a genre of medieval...

Cros Sandoval's authoritative introduction to the Afro-Cuban religion called Santeria explores how it emerged and developed in Cuba out of transplanted Yoruba beliefs and continues to spread and adjust to changing times and contexts. Systematically...

Jotunheim is the second of nine books of the Yggdrasil Training Program (YTP). The YTP was compiled by the members of the Erulian Council of the Folk Faith of Balder Rising (FFBR) and is a massive, comprehensive exploration into the secrets of Germanic...

Music in the Women's Institute has become stereotyped by the ritualistic singing of Jerusalem at monthly meetings. Indeed, Jerusalem has had an important role within the organization, and provides a valuable means within which to assess the...

The study of non-human animals as other-than-human persons (including animal-spirits and divine animals) has marked a significant shift in the ethics and politics of the academic study of religion. Charming Animals and Frightful...

Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes answers many of the questions that come to mind when we think about the religious lives of Native and Indigenous peoples of the world. Suitable for beginning students and the general reader, this book...

Vernacular knowledge is a realm of discourses and beliefs that challenge institutional authorities and official truths, defying regulation and eluding monovocal expressions. Unlike monolithic 'truths', religious or secular, vernacular knowledge tends to...

"The most the startling book of the year...its research is unanswerable." -Literary Digest "The Jew a Negro" has been analyzed by numerous modern authors studying race relations in earlier times in America.Arthur Talmage Abernethy, PH. D., was a...

The Apache Indians of North America have a rich and intricate religion, revolving around the animals they see and the Earth they revere. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and...

Ritual in Deuteronomy explores the symbolic world of Deuteronomy's ritual covenant and curses through a lens of religious studies and anthropology, drawing on previously unexamined Mesopotamian material.This book focuses on the ritual material in...

'మాలావత్ పూర్ణ', అతి తక్కువమంది ప్రయాణించిన మార్గాన్ని తన లక్ష్యంగా ఎంచుకుంది. అయితే, ఇలాంటి గొప్ప మార్గంలో ప్రయాణం చేసిన వాళ్లలో పూర్ణ మొదటి మనిషి కాదు, అలాగే ఆఖరి మనిషీ కాదు. మరి ఎందుకు ఈ ప్రయాణాన్ని విలక్షణంగా భావించాలి? ఈ మార్గంలో నిజానికి ఏం...

Afro-Cuban religiosity is likely to bring to mind beliefs and practices with a visibly 'African' flavour - music, dance, spirit possession, sacrifices and ritual language that have undergone a transformation, on Cuban soil, under a strong Spanish and...

THIS EDITION HAS A BLACK AND WHITE INTERIOR...A Priest's Head, A Drummer's Hands is a complete-in-itself first volume in a series of teachings on Voodoo as it has and continues to develop in New Orleans. It contains an Order of Service developed over...

Despite their apparent similarities, the cultures of Latin American and North American differ remarkably. These differences sometimes cause misunderstanding and tragic failures in communication. In order to aid in mutual understanding, we need a study to...

Manuel Ortiz explores the unique needs and concerns of Hispanics in the U.S., overviewing population changes, addressing key missiological issues and concerns for justice, describing models for effective ministry, and emphasizing the need for leadership...

Victoria L. Johnson reveals the seven practical principles for study that can help you discover the power of Bible study and transform your life. (Revised edition of Bible Study for Busy Women.)

Offering a significant contribution to the emerging field of 'Non-Religion Studies', Religion and Non-Religion among Australian Aboriginal Peoples draws on Australian 2011 Census statistics to ask whether the Indigenous Australian population, like the...

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...