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This comprehensive guide offers an unrivaled introduction to the latest work in the study of religion. Bringing together the methods of both the humanities and the social sciences, the editors consider the main religious traditions of Asia and the West, as well as new forms of religion and spiritual... More

From the introduction of Greek philosophy in the eighth century to modern times, this book charts the evolution and interaction of philosophy, theology, and mysticism in the Islamic context.... More

"Spirit Wars" is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging cas... More

The Glagolitic Mass, written between 1926 and 1927, is not only one of JanaD&cek's most important works: it is also a masterpiece of the twentieth-century choral repertoire. In this fascinating description of the Mass and its history, Paul Wingfield brings together information on all significant asp... More

In Classical Greece women were almost entirely excluded from public life. Yet the feminine was accorded a central place in religious thought and ritual. The public symbolism of religion included powerful figures like Hera, Artemis and Athene; female worshippers often breached the boundary between pu... More

Originally published in 1969. This volume was composed by an eminent Sufi mystic whilst in prison in Baghdad, awaiting execution, in a vain attempt to overthrow his sentence; he was put to death in AD 1311 at the age of 33. This apologia is a document of great poignancy, composed in most elegant Ara... More

This book analyzes the success and violent repression of a milennarian religious peasant movement in the Dominican Republic. It considers the role of changes in the international economic system and the arrival of capitalism in the area.This book analyzes the success and violent repression of a mile... More

This is a major work of Islamic mysticism by the great thirteenth-century Persian poet, Farid al-Din Attar. Translated by A J Arberry, Attar's work and thought is set in perspective in a substantial introduction.... More

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In a major work of cultural interpretation, Sudhir Kakar gives a fascinating account of the many ways in which India's healing traditions deal with emotional disorder. Drawing on three years of intensive fieldwork and his own psychoanalytic training and e... More

This book is a short, positive, practical selections from the world’s great scriptures and mystics – Christian, Jewish, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslim, Native American chosen by one of the most respected teachers of meditation in the world today.... More

This collection of sacred literature of the world, selected from the religious traditions of East and West, has the power to change your life. Positive and practical, inspiring and life-affirming, these pieces are alive with the charge of mystical awareness. They sweep aside time and borders to spea... More

Achieve Cosmic Consciousness through EcstasyNow, you and your lover can engage in specific techniques and positions for ritual intercourse that will flood you with the overwhelming physical ecstasy which triggers expanded states of consciousness. Tantric yoga will teach you how to build sexual love ... More

The Alchemical Body excavates and centers within itsIndian context the lost tradition of the medieval siddhas. Working from a bodyof previously unexplored alchemical sources, the author demonstrates for thefirst time that the medieval disciplines of Hindu alchemy and hatha yoga werepracticed by on... More

“One Can Feel At Times Like A Spinning Leaf Blown Along A Dirty Street, One Can Feel Like A Grain Of Sand Stuck In One Place. But Nobody Has Said That Life Was A Calm And Orderly Thing; It Isn’t. One Isn’t A Tattered Leaf Nor A Grain Of Sand; One Can, To A Greater Or Lesser Degree, Draw His Ro... More

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The centrepiece of The Analyst and the Mystic is the absorbing story of the nineteenth-century Bengali mystic and Hindu saint Sri Ramakrishna. Using Ramakrishna’s life as a case study, Sudhir Kakar discusses in depth three interacting factors that he feels may be essential in the making of... More

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