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Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction, presents a bravura rendition of the No...

Shamanism - Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history...

A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult

Discover the beguiling history of witchcraft, magic, and superstition through the centuries in this stunningly illustrated title. A Histo...

Tales of Norse Mythology (Barnes & Noble Omnibus Leatherbound Classics)

Scandinavians of the Viking Age explored the mysteries of life through their sagas. Folklorist Helene Adeline Guerber brings to life the ...

The Mythology Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

A variety of specialists have contributed to this book, including: Greece: Michael Kerrigan Rome and, Egypt: Neil Philip Norse: Dr. John ...

The Evangelist - for revival, praise and prayer meetings, or Sunday schools - Vol. 3

The Evangelist - for revival, praise and prayer meetings, or Sunday schools - Vol. 3 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the origina...

"Written for Our Discipline and Use" - The Construction of Christian and Jewish Identities in Late Ancient Bible Interpretation

Patristic and rabbinic biblical interpretations are significant contributions to the identity construction of late antique Christian and ...

Scientology:A new slant on life

A laymen's study of the English Bible: - Considered in its literary and secular aspect

A laymen's study of the English Bible: - Considered in its literary and secular aspect is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the origi...

The Rebel Prince - or, Lessons from the career of the young man Absalom

The Rebel Prince - or, Lessons from the career of the young man Absalom is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of ...

The Book of Samuel and Its Response to Monarchy

Power comprises one of the key topics of the book of Samuel. This theme encompasses tribal contentions, power differentials between relig...

Malachi

This commentary proceeds by first offering a synchronic view of the canonical final text of Malachi, especially the argumentation in the ...

Buddhist texts through the ages

The Power Of JHWH

The core topics ¿ What is the meaning of human life? ¿ What is good, what is evil? ¿ How to become a good person? ¿ How do you recognize ...

SERENITY KLARHEIT - Oraculum Veritatis

WISSENSCHAFTLICHER RELIGION

Micah

Major parts of the book of Micah were probably composed in the context of a book containing a number of prophetic writings - even as many...

A Thousand Years of Christianity in Hungary

Genesis 1-11

This commentary offers a synthesis of close readings of Genesis 1-11 and up-to-date study of the formation of these chapters in their anc...

Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God

Recognizing the absence of a God named Yahweh outside of ancient Israel, this study addresses the related questions of Yahweh's origins a...

The Beggar

Sam King, a down-on-his-luck garbage collector, just upgraded from living under a bridge to a ramshackled one-room apartment. He has a cr...

Witnessing Christ - Contextual and Interconfessional Perspectives on Christology

How do Christological Perspectives differ and which specific ways of witnessing Christ exist depending on cultural, geographical and conf...

Whom to blame for Judah's doom? - A Narratological and Intertextual Reading of 2 Kings 23:30-25:30

The last kings of Juda led God's people directly into exile and thus in the catastrophe of the destruction of the First temple. How did t...

Arab Feminism and Islamic History - The Transnational Life and Work of Lebanese-Syrian Writer Widad Sakakini (1913-1991)

Widad Sakakini's work reflects the transformations of Arab societies since the beginning of the twentieth century, particularly the chang...

Fractured Spectrum - Perspectives on Christian-Muslim Encounters in Nigeria

In the twenty-first century, no one can ignore the complex paradigms connected with the precarious relationship between Christians and Mu...

Religion, Religionlessness and Contemporary Western Culture - Explorations in Dietrich Bonhoeffer¿s Theology

This first volume of the new series International Bonhoeffer Interpretations (IBI) contains several impulses for translating Bonhoeffer's...

An anthropology of animism and shamanism

This volume is compiled from the author's selected works, made on field trips, which she has done since the 1980s from ethnoscientific an...

The Egyptian Book of Gates

The Egyptian Book of Gates Translated into English by Erik Hornung in collaboration with Theodor Abt The Egyptian Book of Gates is the se...

Judith Butler and Theology

Judith Butler is regarded as one of the most popular philosophers of the present. Famous for her theory of gender her wide-ranging work e...

Ecological Justice - Churches as civil-society-stakeholders - Perspectives from Afrika and Europe

This book is the poduct of the contributions made by researchers from different academic backgrounds who share the common interest of eng...

The Post-Secular City - The New Secularization Debate

"The Post-Secular" City is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization."The Post-Secular" C...

SERENITY KLARHEIT - Oraculum Veritatis

WISSENSCHAFTLICHER RELIGION

Transformation of Religion - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This volume presents different approaches to the concept of religion. Religion in modern societies is undergoing accelerated change. Trad...

Church and religious life in post-communist societies

Doing Ministry in the Igbo Context - Towards an Emerging Model and Method for the Church in Africa- Foreword by Theophilus Okere

Doing Ministry in the Igbo Context: Towards an Emerging Model and Method for the Church in Africa arises out of reflection on experience ...

Common Man, Society and Religion in the 16th century/Gemeiner Mann, Gesellschaft und Religion im 16. Jahrhundert - Piety, morality and discipline in the Carpathian Basin/Frömmigkeit, Moral und Sozialdisziplinierung im Karpatenbogen

Der zweisprachige Sammelband vereinigt zum Teil bahnbrechende Ergebnisse einer interdisziplinären Forschungstagung, deren Beiträge sozial...

Suffering in Theology and Medical Ethics

Medicine, ethics, and theology embrace various ideas and concepts regarding human suffering - ranging from pain, suffering from lonelines...

The Unity of Body and Soul in Patristic and Byzantine Thought

This volume explores the long-standing tensions between such notions as soul and body, spirit and flesh, in the context of human immortal...

In Praise of Mortality - Christianity and New Humanism

This volume shows that the vulnerability and mortality of life are the starting points of its transcendence which exceeds all representab...

Judaism I - History

Judaism, the oldest of the Abrahamic religions, is one of the pillars of modern civilization. A collective of internationally renowned ex...

Islamische Religionspädagogik - Leitfragen aus Theorie, Empirie und Praxis

Die Islamische Religionspädagogik geht mit ihren eigenen fachwissenschaftlichen und -didaktischen Ansätzen und Methoden auf die politisch...

A Visionary Approach - Lynn A. de Silva and the Prospects for Buddhist-Christian Encounter

The Sri Lankan Methodist theologian, Dr. Lynn Alton de Silva (16 June 1919 - 22 May 1982), was a major pioneer in Buddhist-Christian dial...

The Set Time & Flint Face - Destiny Time/Steadfast To Finish

The book is about destiny timetable, its assignment for specific lifetime events designed to unfold the highest glory of God for a person...

The Song of Unsung Heroes - Chronicles from God's Messengers Who Helped Bring Down Those Iron Curtain Walls

Intrepid Bible Messengers moved thousands of Bibles and Christian books into communist lands during the Cold War Years.The danger? Chilli...

The Time He Desires

After thirty years, Aziz's marriage now consists mostly of arguing about whether to sell their store to a developer. His wife has a socia...

Celtic Christianity and Climate Crisis - Twelve Keys for the Future of the Church

Celtic Christianity is the key not only for the future of the Church but of the whole planet, argues Ray Simpson, Founding Guardian of th...

The Power of the Resurrection - Towering Above the Challenges of Life

The Bishop's Wife

"The Bishop's Wife" will keep you on edge, page by page as you unravel the story of persons from the highest order of the Anglican church...

LIFT YOUR VIBE - Quotes and New Perspectives For Expecting Parents.

I can do it! As the saying goes, change your thoughts and change your world. However, a combination of personal and external challenges c...

Anchored in God

Anchored in God! The Light of Hope Within this book, we will explore unique gifts, both natural and spiritual, and how they determine whe...

Teachings of Don Juan - A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

In 1968 University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. The Teachings o...

Patanjali's Yoga Sutras - Revised for the Modern Mind

Many commentaries have been written on the Sutras of Patanjali. However, this is written from a unique perspective and certainly worth ha...

The Power of Now in Your Life

The Power of Now forces people out of suicide, depression, low self esteem, self hatred and confusion of who they are by making them live...

Prophetic Conflicts in the Deuteronomistic History

This study explores the four narratives regarding prophetic conflicts in the Deuteronomistic History via three steps: first, examining th...

According to the evidence

Temporality and Eternity - Nine Perspectives on God and Time

Is time a creation of God? How can God be considered eternal, if he is responsible for the existence of time? Is God temporal or is he ti...

Judaism II - Literature

Judaism, the oldest of the Abrahamitic religions, is one of the pillars of modern civilization. A collective of internationally renowned ...

1 Corinthians

1 Corinthian gives us an example how Paul interprets the Tora for Christians from the nations: He tells concretely, sensitively, close to...

Buddhist scriptures

Am I-I Am

Am I - I Am is an assortment of delectable snippets from various talks of Karl Renz - talks which Karl often refers to as 'Living Words'....

The Book Of Prayer - An English Siddur

The essential daily book of the most common Jewish prayers & blessings.