SUBJECT INDEX:

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT

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.
Paperback 2009 / 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
Healing Spaces
Esther M. Sternberg

If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place. The book shows how a Disney theme park or a Frank Gehry concert hall, a labyrinth or a garden can trigger or reduce stress, induce anxiety or instill peace.

Hardcover 2009
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
Edited and translated by David Pingree
Hardcover 1978