By J. Roper

ISBN-10: 023055184X

ISBN-13: 9780230551848

Charms, Charmers, and fascinating brings jointly the paintings of lots of state-of-the-art key students within the box of verbal captivating. The essays it includes disguise vernacular magical texts and perform from Malaysia to Madagascar, and from England to Estonia. because the so much complete choice of examine on charms, charmers, and captivating on hand within the English language, it varieties an important reader at the subject.

By Jakob Karl Rinderknecht

ISBN-10: 3319400983

ISBN-13: 9783319400983

ISBN-10: 3319400991

ISBN-13: 9783319400990

This booklet makes use of the insights of cognitive linguistics to argue for the potential of differentiated consensus among separated church buildings. The Joint announcement at the Doctrine of Justification, signed through the Lutheran global Federation and the Roman Catholic Church in 1999, represents the excessive water mark of the twentieth-century ecumenical circulate. It broadcasts that the sixteenth-century condemnations with regards to justification don't condemn the lessons of the associate church. a few critics reject the contract, arguing consensus that's differentiated isn't really a consensus.

In this publication, Jakob Karl Rinderknecht exhibits that mapping the "cognitive blends" that constitution which means can demonstrate underlying contract inside of obvious theological contradictions. He lines Lutheran and Catholic positions on sin within the baptized, specifically the Lutheran simul iustus et peccator and the Catholic insistence that concupiscence within the baptized isn't sin. He demonstrates that the JDDJ reconciles those positions, and consequently really differentiated consensus is feasible.

By William M. Ashcraft, Eugene V. Gallagher

ISBN-10: 0275987124

ISBN-13: 9780275987121

ISBN-10: 0313050783

ISBN-13: 9780313050787

Most new or substitute non secular are gravely misunderstood by way of contributors of the non secular mainstream. categorized cults or sects, teams and their contributors are frequently ridiculed or differently passed over as bizarre and very likely harmful by means of the population at huge. regardless of their efforts at teaching most of the people, a few of the anti- and counter-cult activists have in reality promoted even more mis-understanding than actual knowing of the spiritual lives of a few in their fellow electorate. therefore, they've got helped to create a truly adverse surroundings for a person whose non secular practices don't healthy inside a so-called mainstream. This set rectifies the location through proposing actual, accomplished, authoritative and obtainable bills of varied new and replacement spiritual pursuits which were and are energetic in American society, and it addresses methods of realizing new and substitute religions inside a broader context.

Determining what truly constitutes a brand new or substitute faith is a topic of continuous debate. Questions come up as to a brand new faith's legitimacy, ideals, equipment of conversion, and different elements of a non secular movement's viability and position in a given tradition. How a faith profits reputation through the mainstream, which regularly labels such new hobbies as cults, is fraught with trouble, pressure, and worry. the following, specialists delineate the limits and look at a few of the teams, ideals, routine, and different matters relating to new faiths and substitute ideals. Readers will come away with a fuller figuring out of the non secular panorama in the USA this day.

quantity 1: heritage and Controversies discusses the principles of latest and substitute religions within the usa and addresses the controversies that encompass them. This quantity is helping readers higher comprehend what makes a brand new or substitute trust method a faith and the problems concerned.

quantity 2: Jewish and Christian Traditions explores a few of the new religions that experience grown out of those Abrahamic faiths. teams akin to the Shakers, the People's Temple, the department Davidians, Jehovah's Witnesses and others are tested.

quantity three: Metaphysical, New Age, and Neopagan hobbies seems to be at Shamanism, Spiritualism, Wicca, and Paganism, between different hobbies, as they've got constructed and grown within the U.S. those faiths have chanced on new and dedicated fans but are frequently misunderstood.

quantity four: Asian Traditions makes a speciality of these new and substitute religions which have been encouraged by means of Asian spiritual traditions. From Baha'i to Soka Gakkai, from Adidam to the Vedanta Society, members examine a whole diversity of teams practising and worshiping within the U.S. this present day.

quantity five: African Diaspora Traditions and different American suggestions examines many of the traditions associated with the African diaspora similar to Rastafarianism, Santeria, and the kingdom of Islam, along traditions which are actually American incarnations like Scientology, alien ship religions, and Heaven's Gate. a few of the new and substitute religions coated in those pages include:

; Shamanism

; Wicca

; Black Israelites

; Santeria

; Scientology

; Elan Vital

; Hare Krishna

; Soka Gakkai

; and plenty of more

By Shane Joshua Barter (auth.)

ISBN-10: 1137594306

ISBN-13: 9781137594303

ISBN-10: 1349887935

ISBN-13: 9781349887934

By Guido Giacomo Preparata

ISBN-10: 3319338722

ISBN-13: 9783319338729

ISBN-10: 3319338730

ISBN-13: 9783319338736

This booklet deals students who flooring their learn in compassion and pacifism a brand new framework for the socio-political research of present international occasions. through tackling a huge diversity of severe topics in numerous disciplines, the essays compose a severe narrative of the ways that energy and violence form society, tradition, and trust. as well as the modern dynamics of overseas economics, political homicide, and the rhetorical antagonism among Christianity and Islam, the ebook addresses cultural strife within the West, the societal results of neoconservative hegemony within the usa and the realm, and the general query of spiritual credence in reference to political motion. All such themes are mentioned with a view towards delivering suggestions and guidelines which are knowledgeable by way of a entire wish to face up to violence and conflict, at the one hand, and to foment team spirit and concord on the neighborhood point, at the different.

By Max Weber

ISBN-10: 0029344506

ISBN-13: 9780029344507

By Barry McDonald, Satish Kumar, Visit Amazon's Philip Zaleski Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Philip Zaleski,

ISBN-10: 0941532429

ISBN-13: 9780941532426

This anthology, combining articles by way of Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and local American pupil, seems on the environmental concern via a religious lens.

By Michael Winkelman

ISBN-10: 0897897048

ISBN-13: 9780897897044

Cross-cultural and neuropsychological views on shamanism show that it produces an adaptive integrative mode of cognizance. Shamanic altered states of cognizance (ASC) are regarding mind association and tactics, displaying shamanism's situation with socioemotional and self features of the paleomammalian mind and cognitive capacities dependent in presentational symbolism, metaphor, analogy, and mimesis. Integration of cross-cultural and neurological views illustrates homologies which display the psychobiological foundation of shamanism and soul trips, mum or dad spirits, loss of life and rebirth, and different common different types of shamanic cognition.Shamanic contributions to sociocultural and cognitive evolution are tested. The integrative mode of attention produced by means of shamanic ASC is expounded to basic mind services. particular psychophysiological features of ASC and their adaptations cross-culturally are illustrated. Shamanic soul trip, ownership, and meditative sorts of cognizance are tested from phenomenological, neurological, and epistemological views which exhibit them to be innate sorts of cognition and practices for manipulating conception, cognizance, cognition, emotion, self, and identification. Shamanistic therapeutic consists of bodily and culturally mediated varieties of edition to emphasize that are strengthened by means of methods eliciting opioid unencumber. healing effectiveness of shamanistic practices are illustrated by means of medical examine. Shamanistic therapeutic contains strategies for changing physiological, mental, and emotional responses. modern spontaneous non secular reviews and disorder characterised as religious emergencies have shamanic roots and illustrate the continuing relevance of shamanic paradigms.

By Toyin Falola

ISBN-10: 0585235406

ISBN-13: 9780585235400

ISBN-10: 1580460186

ISBN-13: 9781580460187

Violence in Nigeria is the main finished learn of non secular violence and aggression in Nigeria, particularly its motives, outcomes, and the choices for clash answer. After an research of the hyperlinks among faith and politics, the booklet elaborates on all of the significant situations of violence within the Nineteen Eighties and 90s, together with the Maitatsine, Kano, Bauchi, Kaduna, and Katsina riots. Zones of spiritual tensions are pointed out, in addition to basic features of violence in Nigeria; and matters in inter and intra-religious family members, relious firms, and the states, and the most actors within the conflicts are explored in nice aspect. A fabricated from large basic learn, Violence in Nigeria makes a contribution to modern social and political background that no past learn has tried, and it's written to attract experts and non-specialists alike.

By Brian Wilson

ISBN-10: 0203519124

ISBN-13: 9780203519127

ISBN-10: 0415211611

ISBN-13: 9780415211611

ISBN-10: 0415213428

ISBN-13: 9780415213424

Christianity is a concise and readable survey of the heritage of Christianity, from its beginnings in past due antiquity, during the Reformations within the West, to its present-day globalization. Focusing quite at the sleek interval, it offers a priceless creation to modern christian ideals and practices, and appears on the ways that this varied faith has tailored, and keeps to evolve, to the demanding situations of the fashionable international.