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SPCK Publishing Pray Big: The power of pinpoint prayer
Book SynopsisPray Big teaches believers about prayer that gets things done. It equips Christians to pray with confidence, boldness, faith and biblical focus. Do you need miraculous intervention from God? Pray pinpoint prayers. Are you seeking the salvation of an unbeliever? Pray for them with pinpoint accuracy. Are you walking through a personal crisis? Pinpoint praying will guide you through it. Take a deep breath and step forward into the radical realm of pinpoint praying. Will Davis writes, "Years ago I decided that I'd attended my last prayer meeting filled with mundane 'God bless Tom' and 'God be with Sue' kinds of prayers." This book shows believers how to dramatically change their prayer lives in ten different areas of life.
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St Augustine's Press Happiness and Contemplation
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Liverpool University Press 50 Reasons For Going to Church
Book SynopsisChurch attendance in the United Kingdom has dropped dramatically in numbers since the end of the Second World War and no longer can the country be called Christian. To many people, moral values are no longer of prime importance and the incidence of crime has reached new heights; while violence has plumbed sickening depths of depravity. In the media, as in life, profanity abounds. People's reasons and perhaps excuses for devotion and worship in Church are diverse, sometimes simple and at times complicated. If non-attenders knew that many regular church-goers were not part of a 'saved' elite withdrawing from the real world, but ordinary social animals like themselves, with the same basic nature, who would admit to one or many of the 50 Reasons set out in this book, then perhaps such a realization might encourage them to return to a place of worship again or to attend for the first time. Therein is the purpose of this book. 50 Reasons comprises twenty-five chapters, each of which contains at least two reasons for going to Church.Trade Review"A thought-provoking book and immensely readable. Deserves to be widely read. Above all, the book issues challenge after challenge." -- The Sentinel"Charging up the spiritual batteries, to face another week, discovering all we need to know about good, simply meeting people briefly with kindred spirits, and many other reasons, can be found in this stimulating book." -- The Scotsman
£16.68
NIAS Press Monks and Magic: Revisiting a Classic Study of Religious Ceremonies in Thailand
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1975, B.J. Terwiel's Monks and Magic remains a widely cited text. This is an absorbing study of Buddhism as practised at that time in a community in rural Central Thailand. It describes how esoteric spells and magical diagrams were the main interest of children and adolescents but full ritual knowledge was obtained in adulthood and tempered by life experiences. As death approaches, the Buddhist world-view stimulates merit-making. This fourth edition of the work is a major revision that updates the original text, adds new material and offers a contemporary perspective on the original study.Trade Review'This book deserves a welcome from both sides of academic life, teaching and research. Teachers of subjects dealing with Thai language and culture will welcome a clear account of the religious preoccupations - of country people in the central region. The author has come to treat what is normal and respectable there - The hope is thereby to emphasize the main thesis, viz. that there is such a thing as 'animistic Buddhism' and that it is common in rural areas.' - P.J. Bee, "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies"Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements A Note on Transliteration 1. Two Orientations in the Practice of Buddhism 2. The Setting and the Fieldwork 3. Children and Religion 4. Adolescents, Amulets and Tattooing 5. The First Period in the Sangha 6. Leaving the Order, Courtship and Marriage 7. Building a House 8. The Precepts and Ritual 9. The Pursuit of Beneficial Karma 10. Old Age, Death, and the Hereafter 11. Conclusions Postscript Glossary of Thai, Pali and Sanskrit Words Bibliography Index
£23.76
NIAS Press Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia:
Book SynopsisIn dramatic contrast to the reported growing influence of doctrinal and fundamentalist forms of religion in some parts of Southeast Asia, the predominantly Buddhist societies of the region are witnessing an upsurge of spirit possession cults and diverse forms of magical ritual. This is found in many social strata, including the urban poor, rising middle classes and elite groups, and across the different political systems of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. This volume reveals both the central historical place of spirit possession rituals in the Buddhist cultures of mainland Southeast Asia and their important contemporary roles to enhance prosperity and protection. This book examines the increasing prominence of spirit mediumship and divination across the region by exploring the interplay of neoliberal capitalism, visual media, the network cultures of the Internet, and the politics of cultural heritage and identity. It advances beyond critiques of the “secularization” and “disenchantment” theses to explore the processes of modernity that are actively producing magical worldviews and stimulating the rise of spirit cults. As such, it not only challenges the assumptions of modernization theory but demonstrates that the cults in question are novel ritual forms that emerge out of inherently modern conditions.
£25.16
Leiden University Press Irrationalities in Islam and Media in
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£81.60
ISEAS Wider Bagan: Ancient and Living Buddhist
Book SynopsisWider Bagan: Ancient and Living Buddhist Traditions is the first book to define the area outside the renowned Buddhist capital where vestiges of Bagan era cultural traditions can be found. From nearly six hundred attributes inventoried in Wider Bagan, thematic and geographical analysis of the Wider Bagan data reveals a related but different trajectory from that of the capital. The Sasan? of the court was honoured, and though its economy profited many places across Wider Bagan, local resilience was foremost. While the capital and Wider Bagan existed in relation to each other, their aims and narratives differed. Much has been written about Bagan, but little attention on the ground has been devoted to areas beyond the capital. These places have stories to tell—ones of the past and of the present—that are narrated in this book.
£39.95
Editorial Sirio La Meditacion Budista
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Oxford University Press Pilgrimage in GraecoRoman and Early Christian Antiquity Seeing the Gods
Book SynopsisThis book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism and affirms the significance of sacred mobility not only as an important factor in understanding ancient religion and its topographies but also as vitally ancestral to later Christian practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Mapping out Communitas: Performances of Theoria in their Sacred and Political Context ; 2. Hiketai and Theoroi at Epidaurus ; 3. Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi: Patterns of Public and Private Consultation ; 4. Pilgrimage and Greek Religion: Sacred and Secular in the Pagan Polis ; 5. Downstream to the Cat-Goddess: Herodotus on Egyptian Pilgrimage ; 6. The Philosopher at the Festival: Plato's Transformation of Traditional Theoria ; 7. The Body in Space: Visual Dynamics in Graeco-Roman Healing Pilgrimage ; 8. Mucianus and a Touch of the Miraculous: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Roman Asia Minor ; 9. Pilgrimage as Elite Habitus: Educated Pilgrims in Sacred Landscape during the Second Sophistic ; 10. The Construction of Religious Space in Pausanias ; 11. A Journey to the End of the World ; 12. Pilgrims and Ethnographers: In Search of the Syrian Goddess ; 13. Divine and Human Feet: Records of Pilgrims Honouring Isis ; 14. Rabbi Aqiba Comes to Rome: A Jewish Pilgrimage in Reverse ; 15. 'Interningled until the end of time': Ambiguity as a Central Condition of Early Christian Pilgrimage ; 16. Piety and Passion: Contest and Consensus in Audiences for Early Christian Pilgrimage ; 17. Urban Shrine and Rural Saint in Fifth-Century Alexandria
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Oxford University Press DISSENTING PRAISE C Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
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Oxford University Press Americas Church
Book SynopsisThe National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved, blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a dazzling jewel and dismissed as a towering Byzantine beach ball. In this intriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine is also an illuminating site from which to tell the story of twentieth-century Catholicism. He organizes his narrative around six themes that characterize U.S. Catholicism, and he ties these themes to the Shrine''s material culture--to images, artifacts, or devotional spaces. Thus he begins with the Basilica''s foundation stone, weaving it into a discussion of brick and mortar Catholicism, the drive to build institutions. To highlight the Church''s inclination to appeal to women, he looks at fund-raising for the Mary Memorial Altar, and he focuses on the Filipino oratory to Our Lady of Antipolo to illustrate the Church''s outreach to immigrants. Throughout, he employs painstaking detective work to shine a light on the many facets of American Catholicism reflected in the shrine.Trade ReviewThe Basilica of the National Shrine competes for attention on the Washington skyline with more familiar monuments, but it always stands out. Tweed masterfully explores its deep religious and cultural meanings for Catholics and non-Catholics alike. * James M. O'Toole, Clough Chair in History Boston College *
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Taylor & Francis Liberating Rites
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Taylor & Francis Liberating Rites
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism
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Taylor & Francis Vedic Practice Ritual Studies and Jaiminis Mmsstras
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Taylor & Francis Divinizing in South Asian Traditions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan
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Taylor & Francis Mobile Lifeworlds
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Taylor & Francis Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide
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Taylor & Francis European Paganism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England Routledge Research in Medieval Studies
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Taylor & Francis Divine Economy Theology and the Market Routledge Radical Orthodoxy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives New Critical Perspectives
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Taylor & Francis Thinking Through Rituals Philosophical Perspectives
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Taylor & Francis Thinking Through Rituals Philosophical Perspectives
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Taylor & Francis Reframing Pilgrimage
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Taylor & Francis Reframing Pilgrimage
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Taylor & Francis Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion
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Taylor & Francis Buddhist Meditation
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Taylor & Francis Buddhist Meditation
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Taylor & Francis Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives New Critical Perspectives
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tourism Religion and Spiritual Journeys
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Taylor & Francis Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Model Systems and the Neurobiology of Associative Learning A Festschrift in Honor of Richard F Thompson
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Taylor & Francis Tikopia Ritual and Belief Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Buddhist Practice and Visual Culture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Refashioning Secularisms in France and Turkey
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Refashioning Secularisms in France and Turkey
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Taylor & Francis Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture
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Taylor & Francis Pilgrimage to the National Parks
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sufi Ritual The Parallel Universe Routledge Sufi Series
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Taylor & Francis Divinizing in South Asian Traditions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Systemic Harpoon Into Family Games
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Muslim Devotional Art in India
Book SynopsisThis book highlights the history of Islamic popular devotional art and visual culture in 20th-century India, weaving the personal narrative of the author's journey through his understanding of the faith. It begins with an introductory exploration of how the basic and universal image of Mecca and Medina may have been imported into Indian popular print culture and what variants it resulted in here. Besides providing a historical context of the pre-print culture of popular Muslim visuality, the book also explores the impact the 1947 Partition of India may have made on the calendar art in South Asia. A significant portion of the book focuses on the contemporary prints of different localised images found in India and what role these play in the users' lives, especially in the augmentation of their popular faith and cultural practices. The volume also compares the images published in India with some of those available in Pakistan to reflect different socio-political trajectories. Finally,Trade Review‘The breadth of coverage of issues related to Muslim popular visual culture . . . for insights, as well as the extraordinarily rich collection of images that will serve as a comprehensive reference for many years to come, this book is highly recommended to scholars and other readers alike.’Sandria Freitag, Indian Economic Social History Review ‘Saeed takes us on a journey throughout India, where we encounter visual art [in Islam] in the form of calligraphy, chromolithographs of Sufi saints, architecture, items of clothing, and ritual paraphernalia in abundance, especially within and around the compounds of the many dargahs that dot the landscape of India.’Frank J. Korom, Religious Studies Review‘Yousuf Saeed’s delightful book provides readers with a rare glimpse into the visual culture of Muslim communities in South Asia. Drawing on the author’s personal experiences and extensive research, it sensitively explores diverse aspects of Muslim devotional life through a vivid and vibrant tradition of popular art. Masterfully narrated and beautifully illustrated, this unique book is "a must read" for anyone interested in the popular religion of South Asia.’Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA‘In this welcome volume, Yousuf Saeed surveys significant examples of the colourful lithographs and other images that form a part of the devotional experience of many Indian Muslims. The work is historical, with attention to the importance of technological innovations in photography, print and transportation. It also takes into account central themes in cultural and political history, including the impact of Partition, and devotional and reformist currents that alternately encouraged and disapproved of many of these images. This is a vivid account on a sTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Duller the Better 1. The Image of Mecca in India 2. The Popular Culture of Indian Muslims Before Print 3. Heroes, Portraits and Miraculous Powers 4. Images of Use and the Use of Images 5. Images of the Two Nations 6. Postscript: Why Do Popular Images Thrive in the Muslim World Despite…? Afterword to the Second Edition: Challenges to Religious Plurality
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary Worship Music and Everyday Musical
Book SynopsisWhilst Contemporary Worship Music arose out of a desire to relate the music of the church to the music of everyday life, this function can quickly be called into question by the diversity of musical lives present in contemporary society. Mark Porter examines the relationship between individuals' musical lives away from a Contemporary Worship Music environment and their diverse experiences of music within it, presenting important insights into the complex and sometimes contradictory relationships between congregants' musical lives within and outside of religious worship. Through detailed ethnographic investigation Porter challenges common evangelical ideals of musical neutrality, suggesting the importance of considering musical tastes and preferences through an ethical lens. He employs cosmopolitanism as an interpretative framework for understanding the dynamics of diverse musical communities, positioning it as a stronger alternative to common assimilationist and multiculturalist modeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction – The Quest to Understand Diverse Musical ExperiencesChapter 1: Setting the SceneChapter 2: Music, Attachment, Ethics and CommunityChapter 3: Bridging Worlds Through Common Modes of Being in MusicChapter 4: Boundaries – Communal and Private, Spiritual and SecularChapter 5: At the Edges – Value Transfer, Judgments, DiscontentChapter 6: Alternative Musical SpacesConclusionAppendix A: Morning Service Repertoire List – January 2012 Appendix B: Worship Team Agreement 2013/14BibliographyIndex
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Cambridge University Press Bringing Ritual to Mind
Book SynopsisBringing Ritual to Mind explores the psychological foundations of religious rituals. Religious rituals exploit either high performance frequency or extraordinary emotional stimulation (but not both) to enhance recollection. McCauley and Lawson use a wide range of evidence to argue that the explanation lies in participants' cognitive representations of ritual form.Trade Review'Bringing Ritual to Mind makes a substantial contribution to one corner of the cognitive field, the cognitive basis of ritual forms. The book extends and clarifies aspects of the theory of ritual competence presented in the authors' Rethinking Religion (1990).' Numen'… a provocative and very stimulating set of ideas …'. AnthroposTable of Contents1. Cognitive constraints on religious ritual form: a theory of participants' competence with religious ritual systems; 2. Ritual and memory: frequency and flashbulbs; 3. Two hypotheses concerning religious ritual and emotional stimulation; 4. Assessing the two hypotheses; 5. General profiles of religious ritual systems: the emerging cognitive science of religion.
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Cambridge University Press The Concept of Purity at Qumran 53 Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series Series Number 53
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