Brazilian Spiritism (espiritismo, kardecismo) is an important middle-class religious movement whose followers believe in communication with the dead via spirit mediums and in healing illnesses by means of spiritual therapies. Unlike Anglo-Saxon Spiritualists, Brazilian Spiritists count among their number a well-developed and ......
Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France
The Affair of the Poisons was the greatest court scandal of the seventeenth century. From 1679 to 1682 the French crown investigated more than 400 people—including Louis XIV’s official mistress and members of the highest-ranking circles at court—for sensational crimes. In Strange Revelations, Lynn Mollenauer brings ......
Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts
Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the secrets of the universe, of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this pathbreaking collection of Greek and Roman writings on magic and the occult, Georg Luck provides a comprehensive sourcebook and introduction to magic as it was practiced by witches and ......
Navaho Legends is one of the earliest collections of Navajo oral traditions in English, and still the best. Originally published in 1897, Washington Matthews's sensitive translation contains extensive versions of the Original Legend and two other tales. These richly detailed legends remain among the most complete sources of Navajo cultural, ......
A resource on the historically significant and more obscure, sinister, and bizarre religious groups, from the early days of alternative spirituality to the practising sects. This volume explains more than 1,000 diverse groups and movements including well-known sects such as the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, and Heaven's Gate.
This work is a powerful and astute examination of the connection between magic in literature and magic in history. It traces the evolution of the Faust tradition and its relationship to the practice of magic in European history. Written by one of the most distinguished scholars in the field of German literature, this book, first published in ......
Preface Introduction PART ONE: PROPHETS, HEALERS, AND LIBERATORS African Indigenous Churches The Church of the Lord (Aladura) The Cherubim and Seraphim Church The Church of Jesus Christ on Earth (Zaire) Zionist Churches in South Africa Church of Christ in Africa (Kenya) Ingigenous Elements of Worship ......
This little treasure of a book, first published in English in 1984, is essential reading for anyone who, like the author, aspires to understand Rudolf Steiner "within the overall process of world history, and so come to recognize his spiritual mission."
