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The Lost Girls
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 98.00The Lost Girls analyses a number of British writers between 1850 and 1930 for whom the myth of Demeters loss and eventual recovery of her cherished daughter Kore-Persephone, swept off in violent and catastrophic captivity by Dis, God of the Dead, had both huge personal and aesthetic significance. This book, in addition to scrutinising canonical... more...
Golden Rule
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 130.00The Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be treated . This ethical dictum is a part of most of the world’s religions and has been considered by numerous religious figures and philosophers over the centuries. This new collection contains specially commissioned essays which take a fresh look at this guiding principle from a comparative... more...
Yoga Bitch
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00What happens when a coffee-drinking, cigarette-smoking, steak-eating twenty-five-year-old atheist decides it is time to get in touch with her spiritual side? Not what you?d expect? When Suzanne Morrison decides to travel to Bali for a two-month yoga retreat, she wants nothing more than to be transformed from a twenty-five-year-old with a crippling... more...
The Druids and King Arthur
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 35.00An exploration into the beliefs and origins of the Druids, this book examines the role the Druids may have played in the story of King Arthur and the founding of Britain. It explains how the Druids originated in eastern Europe around 850 B.C., bringing to early Britain a cult of an underworld deity, a belief in reincarnation, and a keen interest in... more...
Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity
BRILL 2010; US$ 246.00This new volume in the well-established Late Antique Archaeology series draws together recent research by archaeologists and historians to shed new light on the religious world of Late Antiquity. A detailed bibliographic essay provides an overview of relevant literature, while individual articles explore the diversity of late antique religion. Rabbinic... more...
Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West, Volume 3
Cambridge University Press 1985; US$ 60.00The successful three volumes of Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of that time. more...
African-American Religious Leaders
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 59.40Praise for the previous edition: ..".informative...a useful addition to high school and college libraries."--American Reference Books Annual more...
Form And Substance In The Religions
World Wisdom 2010; US$ 9.99The modern world is characterized by its fascination with relativity and individualism. Into this morass, the writings of Frithjof Schuon enter like a bolt of lightning that both clears the air and brings serenity in its wake. The perspective of the perennial philosophy restores a sense of proportion in affirming the transcendent Real and then draws... more...
Mythology for Teens
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2009; US$ 15.99Mythology for Teens: Classic Myths in Today's World takes classical mythology to a new level by relating ancient stories to the culture, history, art, and literature of today. more...
From Civil to Political Religion
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 42.95Prompted by the shattering of the bonds between religion and the political order brought about by the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau devised a "new" religion (civil religion) to be used by the state as a way of enforcing civic unity. Emile Durkheim, by contrast, conceived civil religion to be a spontaneous phenomenon arising from society itself... more...









