Secret Ceremonies
Author | : Deborah Laake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Ex-church members |
ISBN | : 9780285631915 |
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Author | : Deborah Laake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Ex-church members |
ISBN | : 9780285631915 |
Author | : Deborah Laake |
Publisher | : William Morrow |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A frank yet compassionate depiction of the culture of the Mormon Church, this compelling rite-of-passage story describes the mystery of the church's rituals and the beauty and rigor of its theology and traditions set against the backdrop of one woman's life. Laake is executive managing editor of the New Times, Inc., chain of magazines and was named Arizona Journalist of the Year in 1988.
Author | : A.H. Greenfield |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5881785428 |
Author | : Mark Christopher Carnes |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300051469 |
In this study of American 19th-century secret orders, the author argues that religious practices and gender roles became increasingly feminized in Victorian America and that secret societies, such as the Freemasons, offered men and boys an alternative, male counterculture.
Author | : Deborah Laake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1995-05-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780517146088 |
Author | : Isaiah Oke |
Publisher | : Berkley |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780425128527 |
Author | : Migene González-Wippler |
Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780875422862 |
Theory -- What Is Magic? -- The Evolution of Magic -- The Gods -- The Elements of Magic -- Initiation and Adepthood -- Types of Magic: White versus Black -- Techniques of Magic -- The Four Elements -- The Kabbalah and Its Magical Correspondences -- The Astral Plane -- Ceremonial Magic -- The Sacred and the Profane Books of Magic -- Talismanic Magic -- The Spirit of Sacrifice -- Possession and Exorcism -- Prophets and Magicians -- Witchcraft and Demonology -- Divination -- Practice -- Rituals and Spells -- Fertility Rituals -- Weather Control -- The Rites for Power: Pagans, Witches, Satanists -- The Rites of the Persians and Babylonians -- The Rites of the Egyptians -- The Rites of the Jews -- The Rites of the Arabs -- The Rites of the Greeks and Romans -- The Rites of India -- The Rites of China and Japan -- The Rites of Africa -- The Rites of Australia -- The Rites of Europe -- The Rites of Haiti and Latin America -- The Rites of Mexico and North America -- Magical Spells -- Spells for Love -- Spells for Wealth and Success -- Spells to Overcome Enemies -- Spells for Health and Protection.
Author | : Francis King |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0359258824 |
Author | : Mark Valentine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2019-08-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781614982456 |
The works of Anglo-Welsh author Arthur Machen (1863-1947) made an indelible and ever-expanding impression in the genre of horror and the supernatural, and have always inspired both ardent advocates and determined opponents. In the 1890s, Oscar Wilde, Jerome K. Jerome, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle admired his work, but the majority of critics were hostile, and he was often seen as part of the Decadent movement of the "Yellow 'Nineties." The first section of this critical anthology provides important contextual information about Machen's life and works, and gives a clear impression of how Machen was regarded in the 1920s, when his books began to emerge from the shadows. The following section offers contributions concerned with Machen's role as a figure of the 1890s and a participant in the Decadent movement. The third section presents discussions Machen's interest in ritual magic, occultism, classical mythology, the sublime, and his own individual and particular form of Christianity. In his later work, Machen never lost his deep interest in folklore and popular customs, eccentric characters and curious historical episodes, and the present volume's final section shows how these continued to inform Machen's work right up until his last writing. In sum total, this volume presents an extended critical assessment of Machen's work, early and late. The volume has been edited by Mark Valentine, a leading authority on Machen, author of Arthur Machen (1995), and editor of Aklo, All Hallows, and Wormwood; and Timothy J. Jarvis, instructor in creative writing and author of the novel The Wanderer (2014) and numerous works of short fiction.
Author | : Alex Mar |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015-10-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374291373 |
"Witches are gathering." When most people hear the word "witches," they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshipping, polytheistic, and very real religion. So Alex Mar discovers when she sets out to film a documentary and finds herself drawn deep into the world of present-day magic. Witches of America follows Mar on her immersive five-year trip into the occult, charting modern Paganism from its roots in 1950s England to its current American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area; from a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods to the New Orleans branch of one of the world's most influential magical societies. Along the way she takes part in dozens of rituals and becomes involved with a wild array of characters. This sprawling magical community compels Mar to confront what she believes is possible--or hopes might be. With keen intelligence and wit, Mar illuminates the world of witchcraft while grappling in fresh and unexpected ways with the question underlying every faith: Why do we choose to believe in anything at all?--Adapted from book jacket.