Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
Published: 1911
Total Pages: 1634
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Author: Sarah M. Pike
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001-01-24
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0520923804
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recent decades have seen a revival of paganism, and every summer people gather across the United States to celebrate this increasingly popular religion. Sarah Pike's engrossing ethnography is the outcome of five years attending neo-pagan festivals, interviewing participants, and sometimes taking part in their ceremonies. Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves incorporates her personal experience and insightful scholarly work concerning ritual, sacred space, self-identity, and narrative. The result is a compelling portrait of this frequently misunderstood religious movement. Neo-paganism began emerging as a new religious movement in the late 1960s. In addition to bringing together followers for self-exploration and participation in group rituals, festivals might offer workshops on subjects such as astrology, tarot, mythology, herbal lore, and African drumming. But while they provide a sense of community for followers, Neo-Pagan festivals often provoke criticism from a variety of sources—among them conservative Christians, Native Americans, New Age spokespersons, and media representatives covering stories of rumored "Satanism" or "witchcraft." Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves explores larger issues in the United States regarding the postmodern self, utopian communities, cultural improvisation, and contemporary spirituality. Pike's accessible writing style and her nonsensationalistic approach do much to demystify neo-paganism and its followers.
Author: Maeva Marcus
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9780231088732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 6 covers the beginnings of federal admiralty and equity jurisprudence, habeas corpus, judicial review, forreign affairs, and the relationship between the national judiciary and state courts. Also included is an appendix of documents pertaining to the question of whether the Supreme Court could issue advisory opinions at the request of the executive branch. A narrative history introduces each case, and the documents are arranged chronologically thereafter. The texts of many of them had to be reconstructed from originals that were severely damaged or written in shorthand. Taken from official court records, as well as related correspondence, lawyers' notes, justices' notes and opinions, newspaper commentary, and pamphlets, these documents provide critical material with which to assess the initial development of federal court practice and procedure.
Author: John Denham Parsons
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-03-22
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 3387323670
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Pearson M'Adam Muir
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-20
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Modern Substitutes for Christianity is a work by Pearson McAdam Muir focusing on the issues of morality and Christianity. The book reviews such important questions as whether morality can exist without Christianity or whether humanity can adopt a universal religion like theism.
Author: Rosemary Guiley
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010-05-12
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1438126840
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Praise for the previous editions:"Clearly the best reference work on the subject now available."