Practices category: 4429 books
by Stewart Farrar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Paranormal, the new ebook series from F+W Media International Ltd, resurrecting rare titles, classic publications and out-of-print texts, as well as new ebook titles on the supernatural – other-worldly books for the digital age. The series includes a range of paranormal subjects from angels,...
by Wade Baskin
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
A handy, comprehensive guide to a wide range of topics relating to the awesome power and cult of Satan, in myriad forms and under many different names, from ancient times to the present. Distilled from hundreds of reliable sources, both religious and secular, the entries include men and movements,...
Creating Judaism
History, Tradition, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
How can we define "Judaism," and what are the common threads uniting ancient rabbis, Maimonides, the authors of the Zohar, and modern secular Jews in Israel? Michael L. Satlow offers a fresh perspective on Judaism that recognizes both its similarities and its immense diversity. Presenting...
by Tom Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Could it be that atheism and belief in God are both forms of avoidance behavior? It's easier to focus on belief than it is to take up a new practice of living. Perhaps both are ideological distractions that mystify the nature of reality and what knowledge is. What if we admit that we are neither believers...
Illuminating the Way
Embracing the Wisdom of Monks and Mystics
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Popular author of eight books and abbess of the online retreat center Abbey of the Arts, Christine Valters Paintner explores how the lives and spirituality of twelve monks and mystics offer distinct patterns of thought that will lead you to a deeper understanding of your strengths and areas of growth...
Sacramentality Renewed
Contemporary Conversations in Saramental Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Tracing developments in sacramental theology over the past twenty-five years, this study explores a growing ecumenical dynamism in both the academic study of sacramentality and its centrality in pastoral applications. But how does ecumenical excitement in a renewed discovery of sacramental theology...
Judaism
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this clear and authoratative guide, Lavinia and Dan Cohn-Sherbok concisely examine the Jewish faith and its practices and explore what it means to be a Jew today. From the nature of God to the divisions within Judaism and from worship to customs, Judaism: A Beginner's Guide covers all the topics...
Practicing the Presence of the Goddess
Everyday Rituals to Transform Your World
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
More women than ever are incorporating some kind of spiritual practice into their daily lives, and not always in traditional religious form, but as alternative or hybrid practices. In Practicing the Presence of the Goddess, Barbara Ardinger offers a wide variety of meditations and personal rituals...
Witches
True Encounters with Wicca, Covens, and Magick
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
A history of witchcraft plus deeply personal accounts of a famed researcher/expert's interviews with leading practitioners, Witches is an essential compendium from the late Professor Hans Holzer.
Professor Hans Holzer draws on his own first-hand research from the 1960s and 1970s in Witches,...
by Gail Wood
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Shamanic practice seeks healing and wisdom from realms that overlap the everyday world. The use of plant and animal medicines vision quests trance work and ceremonies to heal one's self and others are the foundations of shamanism. So too Wicca and witchcraft use the magic and medicine of plants...
Essential Judaism
A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs & Rituals
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
What happens at a synagogue service? What are the rules for keeping kosher? How do I light the Hanukah candles? What is in the Hebrew Bible? What do the Jewish holidays signify? What should I be teaching my children about being Jewish?
A landmark reference, here is an indispensable one-volume...
Lifting Hearts to the Lord
Worship with John Calvin in Sixteenth-Century Geneva
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
The Church at Worship is a series of documentary case studies of specific worshiping communities from around the world and throughout Christian history — case studies that can inform and enrich worship practices today. In Lifting Hearts to the Lord Karin Maag brings together a wealth of primary...
by S. Brent Morris, Arturo de Hoyos
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
For as long as there have been Freemasons, there has been a calculated effort to disparage and their practices. In this insightful text, masons de Hoyos and Morris explore the origins of the anti-Masonic mindset and delve into the falsehoods on which critics have based these perennial sentiments....
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
This is a Summary of Leah Remini’s #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Troublemaker Surviving Hollywood and ScientologyThe outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality television star offers up a no-holds-barred memoir, including an eye-opening insider account of her tumultuous and heart-wrenching...