The Trickster in West Africa (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions, #8)
by Robert D. Pelton
The trickster appears in the myths and folktales of nearly every traditional society. Robert Pelton examines Ashanti, Fon, Yoruba, and Dogon trickster-figures in their social and mythical contexts and in light of contemporary thought, exploring the way the trickster links animality and ritual transformation; culture, sex, and laughter; cosmic process and personal history; and, divination and social change.
Priests, Warriors and Cattle (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions, v. 10)
by Bruce Lincoln
The essays in this volume deal with the relationship between living religious traditions in Canada and the fabric of Canadian society. Canada is a pluralistic society, ethnically and religiously. How are these two pluralisms related? Their connection is intimate, but never simple. For many years there could plausibly have been said to be a dominant Anglo-Canadian Protestant tradition, with other faiths and denominations being associated primarily with ethnic minorities. No doubt this would...
Church and Marriage in an Indonesian Village (Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity, v. 55)
by John Mansford Prior
Large Print Liturgical Sacramentary of Samhain (Large Print Liturgical Sacramentary of Samhain, #1)
by L B O Ceallaigh
This Santeria Ritual Book is the most powerful and yet simple Santeria Magick you will ever do! In chapter 1 The Santeria Evocation Ritual shows you step by step how to easily summons the Santeria spirits for more money, health, love, psychic abilities, and many more things as well. You only need a rope, bell, candle, incense and 10 minutes to get started immediately. In chapter 2 every major Santeria Spirit is listed with a description for your every particular request and every quality about t...
More than a hundred and twenty five years ago, at the height of the colonial era in South Africa, a group of people came together in Cape Town under remarkable circumstances. The project upon which they embarked involved nothing less than the writing down of the language and beliefs of the /Xam people, a Bushman group that once lived their traditional way of life over much of what is now South Africa. The significance and value of the labours of Wilhelm Bleek, Lucy Lloyd and their /Xam teachers...
A description of the Druze faith, and their mutual cooperation with the Jews.
The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts (Weiser Classics)
by Baba Ifa Karade
Yemonja - Tranquil Sea, Tranquil Tides
by Lloyd Weaver and Olukunmi Egbelade
Take a step back in time to the origins of Japan's creation myth told here for the very first time in illustrated form. In the beginning there was nothing a void. Then the heavens and the earth took shape, as the ancient gods of Japan breathed the first sparks of life into these islands. The 1300 year-old Kojiki myth traces the beginnings of the Japanese people, following the rise of the Japanese islands from their humble origins as a lump of clay to a great nation that would one day take its r...
African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa (Vitality of Indigenous Religions)
by Ezra Chitando
The historiography of African religions and religions in Africa presents a remarkable shift from the study of 'Africa as Object' to 'Africa as Subject', thus translating the subject from obscurity into the global community of the academic study of religion. This book presents a unique multidisciplinary exploration of African traditions in the study of religion in Africa and the new African diaspora. The book is structured under three main sections - Emerging trends in the teaching of African Rel...
Presents a narrative history and analysis of the Assyrian experience in 20th century Iraq. Who are the Assyrians and what role did they play in shaping modern Iraq? Were they simply bystanders, victims of collateral damage who played a passive role in the history of Iraq? And how have they negotiated their position throughout various periods of Iraq's state building processes? This book details the narrative history of Iraq in the 20th century and reinserts the Assyrian experience as an integral...