Tribal & Ethnic

In this definitive study, Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick draw together the fragmented sources of Europe's native religions and establish the coherence and continuity of the Pagan world vision. Challenging a traditional, Christian perspective of history, the authors argue that the modern world owes... More

'A sourcebook and a central text in the 'ancient or modern' debate about Paganism....Stunning!'--Pagan Voice"A History of Pagan Europe" is the definitive study of the indigenous religions of Europe and their practices, beliefs and customs. Establishing Paganism as a persistent force in European hist... More

NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIONS: AN INTRODUCTION provides an overview of the latest research and thought in this area. Gill presents an academically and humanistically useful way of appreciating and understanding the complexity and diversity of Native American religions and establishes them as a significa... 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

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

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

A valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. Alphabetical entries clarify essential meanings of each symbol, as drawn from religion, astrology, alchemy, numerology, other source... More

Among the Tuareg people in the Air Mountain region of Niger, women are sometimes possessed by spirits called "the people of solitude". The evening curing rituals of the possessed, featuring drumming and song, take place before an audience of young men and women, who joke and flirt as the ritual unfo... More

In the conclusion to his trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Berman (Johns Hopkins U.) discusses human hunter- gatherer ancestry and the paradoxical mode of perception that it involved, showing how a sense of alertness, or secular/sacred immediacy, subsequently got buried beneath sedent... More

The third book in Morris Berman's much acclaimed trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier work which garnered such praise as "solid lessons in the history of ideas" (Kirkus Reviews), "filled with piquant details" (Common Boundary), "an informative synthesi... More