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Chapter II contains a tradition as to Maori Cosmogony more particular in some details than I have ever met with elsewhere. My informant had been educated to become a tohunga; but had afterwards beco……続きを見る

Dare to believe! In this true and riveting story, a novice cave owner, almost overnight becomes a site steward for a newly discovered Native American landmark sacred ground; one of only eight known ……続きを見る

Rivers of religious life have a beginning, like other streams, and what are the sources to which man’s primitive faiths may be traced? The early “symbolic objects of man’s adoration” are arranged by……続きを見る

**“For the expert investigation of the human will to believe, we recommend The Encyclopedia of Superstitions.”**ーThe New York Times Why is it said that breaking a mirror or walking under ladders wi……続きを見る

Though currently only partially understood, evolving interactions among Latin American communities of faith, governments, and civil societies are a key feature of the popular mobilizations and polic……続きを見る

This Handbook provides a cutting-edge survey of the state of research on religions and global development. Part one highlights critical debates that have emerged within research on religions and dev……続きを見る

At the core of African American religion’s response to social inequalities has been a symbiotic relationship between socio-political activism and spiritual restoration. Drawing on archival material ……続きを見る

Losers in History Don't Get a Chance to Write History. The Winners in History Do. One benefit of this book is that it uncovers black biblical women in the Bible for you. It lists 13 of the many wome……続きを見る

Originally published in 1967, this book is a study of witchcraft and sorcery among the Shona, Ndebele and Kalanga peoples of Zimbabwe. It analyses in their social context verbatim evidence and confe……続きを見る

When African slaves were brought to the American South to work the plantations, they brought with them their culture, traditions, and religionーincluding what came to be called voodoo. This unique b……続きを見る

"An essential book." Brian Rice, author of The Rotinonshonni and Seeing the World with Aboriginal Eyes "As more people ripen to understand the new world holocaust of our First Nations, Blair Stonech……続きを見る

Personhood and relationality have re-animated debate in and between many disciplines. We are in the midst of a simultaneous "ontological turn", a "(re)turn to things" and a "relational turn", and al……続きを見る

First Published in 2004. States of spirit possession, in which believer's feel themselves to be 'possessed' by the deity and raised to a new plane of existence, are found in almost all known religio……続きを見る

Since time immemorial indigenous people have engaged in legal relationships with other-than-human-persons. These relationships are exemplified in enspirited sacred natural sites, which are owned and……続きを見る

In 1629, Catholic priest Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón produced the Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live among the Indians Native to This New Spain to aid the church in its abolishment o……続きを見る

Across the world from personal relationships to global politics, differencesーcultural, religious, racial, gender, age, abilityーare at the heart of the most disruptive and disturbing concerns. Whil……続きを見る

This book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer. A review of Mr. Lang's work would come l……続きを見る

What are man's earliest ideas of a soul and a God, and of his own origin and destiny? Why do we find certain myths, such as of a creation, a flood, an after-world; certain symbols, as the bird, the ……続きを見る

This book is annotated with a rare biographical sketch of the author, written by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. This work contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Waban……続きを見る

An anthropological novel about The Sentinelese who are an untouched race that live on North Sentinel Island. It is an inaccessible island in the Andaman Ocean, only 25 miles from a modern port settl……続きを見る

It is not the purpose of this volume to deal to any considerable extent with the history of the Indians, but simply to present some of the legends of the Iroquois. To the reader or student, however,……続きを見る

The Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from place to place on foot. They used implements of stone, wood, or bone, wore clothing made of skins, and lived in tents covered by hides. Dogs, their only t……続きを見る

"Immediately before the siege of Jerusalem by Titus, 20,000 Idumaeans were admitted into the holy city … from this time the Edomites as a separate people, disappear from the page of history." -Mary ……続きを見る

Much previous literature on sacred natural sites has been written from a non-indigenous perspective. In contrast, this book facilitates a greater self-expression of indigenous perspectives regarding……続きを見る

Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal womenーthe Mothersーmake a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia.……続きを見る

From being characterized as ‘primitive tribe’ in the colonial imagination to become predominantly practitioners of the American Baptist faith, the Sumi Naga – formerly known as the Sema Naga – in th……続きを見る

An inspiring anthology of prose, poetry and ancestral wisdom from members of 40 Native American tribes, organized alphabetically from Anishinaabeg to Zuni Although there are major differences in the……続きを見る

O candomblé bem explicado é resultado da pesquisa de um babalorixá e de sua filha-de-santo que, motivados por sua própria experiência prática, decidiram elucidar conceitos e temas bastante recorente……続きを見る

Obra que discute a chegada das religiões africanas ao Brasil e sua assimilação e transformação local. Candomblé, curandeirismo e feitiçaria, bem como preconceito e repressão, são alguns dos temas de……続きを見る

Shamanism is one of the earliest and farthest-reaching magical and religious traditions, vestiges of which still underlie the major religious faiths of the modern world. The function of the shaman i……続きを見る