- Byzantine Magic
- Edited by Henry Maguire
- The authors reveal the scope, the forms, and the functioning of magic in Byzantine society, throwing light on a hitherto relatively little-known aspect of Byzantine culture, and, at the same time, expanding upon the contemporary debates concerning magic and its roles in pre-modern societies.
- Hardcover
- The Channeling Zone
- Michael F. Brown
- Brown explores the scope and substance of the practice called channeling as a window on the persistent New Age movement. He offers a lively firsthand assessment of the hopes, fears, and obsessions of the thousands of Americans who have abandoned mainstream religions in search of direct and improvisational contact with spiritual beings.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Katha Aranyaka
- Edited and translated by Michael Witzel
- Dating to the first half of the first millennium B.C.E., the Katha Aranyaka is a ritualistic and speculative text that deals with a dangerous Vedic ritual that provides its sponsor with a new body after death. In a new critical edition, Michael Witzel presents this work which transitions the Vedic ritual into the philosophy of the Upanishads. The text is preceded by an extensive introduction in English and followed by a German translation.
- Hardcover 2005
- Witchfinders
- Malcolm Gaskill
- In 1645, two obscure gentlemen, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne, exploited the anxiety and lawlessness of the time and initiated a brutal campaign to drive out the presumed evil in their midst. Malcolm Gaskill retells the chilling story of the most savage witch-hunt in English history. By the autumn of 1647 at least 250 people--mostly women--had been captured, interrogated, and hauled before the courts, with more than a hundred hanged.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- The Yavanajataka of Sphujidhvaja
- David Pingree, Ed. and Trans.
- Hardcover 1978