Christian Rituals & Practice
- 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
- The Craft of Zeus
- John Scheid
- Jesper Svenbro
- Carol Volk, Translator
- In this dazzling commentary on Greek and Roman myth and society, weaving emerges as a metaphor rich with possibility. From rituals symbolizing the cohesion of society to the erotic and marital significance of weaving, this lively book defines the logic of one of the central concepts in Greek and Roman thought.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 2001
- Creation of the Sacred
- Walter Burkert
- Sacrifice is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason? Why are sacrifice and numerous other religious rituals and concepts shared by so many different cultures? In this extraordinary book, one of the world's leading authorities on ancient religions explores the possibility of natural religion.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- 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