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Harness the mythic power of the Celtic goddesses, gods, heroes and heroines to aid your spiritual quests and magical goals. This book explains how to use creative ritual and pathworking to align yourself with the energy of these archetypes, whose potent...

Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role violence plays in religion and culture. These papers and conversations derive from a conference that pursued the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889834380Author Kellie LisiFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Patterson follows the fortunes of Virgil's Eclogues from the Middle Ages to our own century. She argues that Virgilian pastoral spoke to the intellectuals of each place and time of their own condition. The study reinspects our standard system of...

Seed Sown is a practical and reproducible resource book for anyone who seeks to "break open" the Word of God: from those who preach every week to those who plan and lead Scripture courses and discussion groups based on the Sunday lectionary. Includes...

Christmas exerts an enormous attraction today even apart from its Christian character as a celebration of the incarnation of God in the Person of Jesus. Even marginal or indifferent Christians crowd the churches on Christmas Eve and in highly...

Singing a Hindu Nation is a study of rags>riya kirtan, a western Indian performance medium that combines song, Hindu philosophical discourse, and nationalist storytelling. Beginning during the anti-colonial movement of the late nineteenth-century,...

While much theological thinking assumes a normative male perspective, this study demonstrates how our ideas of religious beliefs and practices change in the light of gender awareness. Exploring the philosophy and practices of the Orisha traditions...

This study of controversy over the eucharist in sixteenth-century France argues that Calvinist interpretations of the Lord's Supper played a crucial role in the development of early modern revolutionary politics. Focusing on new understandings of signs...

Between Magic and Religion represents a radical rethinking of traditional distinctions involving the term 'religion' in the ancient Greek world and beyond, through late antiquity to the seventeenth century. The title indicates the fluidity of such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556350993Author Debra Dean MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

This is a scholarly edition of Laurence Sterne's sermons, and this volume also contains the notes to his 45 sermons. The introduction and notes explore early 18th-century Anglicanism; demonstrates Sterne's method of composing sermons; and indicates the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566993180Author Lillian DanielFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Alban Institute, IncPublisher Alban Institute, IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764801921Author Francine M O'ConnorFormat PaperbackImprint Liguori Publications,U.S.Publisher Liguori Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 73g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881774900Author Valerie Bridgeman DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Discipleship ResourcesPublisher Discipleship ResourcesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881772012Author Gayle Carlton FeltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Discipleship ResourcesPublisher Discipleship ResourcesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620651407Author Cheryl L EnderleinFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Unamuno's long essay on Christianity as a state of agony is followed by nine essays including "Nicodemus the Pharisee," "Faith," and "What is Truth?" Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology...

Between the seventh and eleventh centuries, Christian worship on the Iberian Peninsula was structured by rituals of great theological and musical richness, known as the Old Hispanic (or Mozarabic) rite. Much of this liturgy was produced during a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380769285Author Roger FrittsFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 197mm...

In the Reason of Following noted scholar Robert P. Scharlemann takes Christology in a radically new direction, suggesting that Christology itself represents a form of reason and an understanding of selfhood. For the first time, Scharlemann establishes a...

A classic question in studies of ritual is how ritual performances achieve-or fail to achieve-their effects. In this pathbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson argues that participants condition their own expectations of ritual success by interactively creating...

This book explores the way in which singing can foster experiences of belonging through ritual performance. Based on more than two decades of ethnographic, pedagogical and musical research, it is set against the backdrop of "the new Ireland" of the late...

Singing a Hindu Nation is a study of rags>riya kirtan, a western Indian performance medium that combines song, Hindu philosophical discourse, and nationalist storytelling. Beginning during the anti-colonial movement of the late nineteenth-century,...

The offertory has played a crucial role in recent vigorous debates about the origins of Gregorian chant. Its elaborate solo verses are among the most splendid of chant melodies, yet the verses ceased to be performed in the twelfth and thirteenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506427171Author Gracia GrindalFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Offers an intimate and engrossing look at the latest generation of Pentecostal believers who "take up" venomous snakes as a test of their religious faith. Focusing on several preachers and their families in six Appalachian states, journalist Julia C...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595513458Author Theodore KarpFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint American Institute of Musicology, Inc.Publisher American Institute of Musicology, Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800626044Author Patricia Wilson-KastnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806633398Author Martin E. MartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800632359Author Frank C. SennFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Christian theologians have historically described a 'saving faith in God' as containing a fundamental element of 'belief'. However, philosophers present strong arguments exist that we are not capable of freely deciding which beliefs we will hold. Rather,...

Think you don't have time or space for spiritual stuff? That intimacy with God is impossible?GodSpace offers seven nontraditional practices that will guide busy Christians in slowing down enough to pay attention to God. It's not holding a set of beliefs,...

We live in an age of bombardment of the senses, ceaselessly assaulted by traffic noise, canned music, the ubiquitous waiting-room TV, coworkers' conversations. Even those treasured moments of quiet prayer time before worship have been snatched from us by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825434303Author Kenneth W. OsbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 181g

The authors, a theologian and a worship leader, are concerned that modern worship is growing self-indulgent: more about performance, less about an encounter with the divine. They consider what the Bible teaches about worship, addressing four key...

Isreal's feasts are infinitely more important than just a series of cultural observances. These feasts are appointed by the Lord, and they are owned by the Lord. Together they form God's prophetic calendar, outlining the work of history's most important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800627652Author Teresa M. ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852446126Author John SkinnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm