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New Religions in Global Perspective
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 39.95Peter B. Clarke?s in-depth account explores the innovative character of new religious movements and new forms of spirituality from a global vantage point. Ranging from North America and Europe to Japan, Latin America, South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, it is the perfect introduction to NRMs such as Falun Gong, Aum Shirikyo, the Brahma Kumaris,... more...
Yoruba in Diaspora
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 95.00The Nigerian diaspora is now world-wide, and when Yoruba travel, they take with them their religious organizations. As a member of the Cherubim and Seraphim church in London for over thirty years, anthropologist Hermione Harris explores a world of prayer, spirit possession, and divination through dreams and visions. more...
Sacred Stories
Indiana University Press 2007; US$ 19.95Sacred Stories brings together the work of leading scholars writing on the history of religion and religiosity in late imperial Russia during the critical decades preceding the 1917 revolutions. Embodying new research and new methodologies, this book reshapes our understanding of the place of religion... more...
Dissenting Histories
Edinburgh University Press 2008; US$ 113.99The first major study of the historical writings of religious dissenters in England between the 1690s and the 1790s, this book redefines the way we understand religious and political identities in the eighteenth century. Dissenting Histories provides a synoptic overview of the development of religious dissent in England between the Restoration and... more...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Celtic Wisdom
Alpha Books 2003; US$ 18.95A comprehensive look at Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and continental Celtic traditions, both Pagan and Christian, this guide includes the Celtic approach to shamanism, fairies, Wicca, neopaganism, magic, and Druidism. It draws a map for today's Celtic quest, with the way of the pilgrim, honor of one's ancestors, and the language and culture. Exploring the... more...
Gods, Heroes, and Kings
Oxford University Press, USA 2001; US$ 26.99The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the... more...
Tracing the Way
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 160.00Surveys the historical stages of each world religion and analyses their major paradigms and paradigm shifts. This work attempts to understand the religions, in both text and pictures, and discusses the social, political and historical contexts of the many forms of belief. more...
Modes of Faith
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion’s place in the minds of many writers and poets.... more...
Druids
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 9.99Who were the Druids? What do we know about them? Do they still exist today? The Druids first came into focus in Western Europe - Gaul, Britain, and Ireland - in the second century BC. They are a popular subject; they have been known and discussed for over 2,000 years and few figures flit so elusively through history. They are enigmatic and puzzling,... more...
Religion, State and Politics in the Soviet Union and Successor States, 19531993
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 47.00Making use of newly available archive material, this book provides the first systematic and accessible overview of church state relations in the Soviet Union. more...









