Although much has been written on the Afro-Catholic syncretic religions of Vodou, Candomble, and Santeria, the Spiritual Baptists--an Afro-Caribbean religion based on Protestant Christianity--have received little attention. This work offers the first detailed examination of the Spiritual Baptists or "Converted". Based on 18 months of fieldwork on the Island of St. Vincent (where the religion arose) and among Vincentian immigrants in Brooklyn, Zane's analysis makes a contribution to the literature on African-American and African Diaspora religion and the anthropology of religion more generally.

The Land Mines in our Spiritual Journey-this book is a Christian spiritual manual inspired by the Holy Spirit. It teaches us how to recognize Satan's lies and deceptions. How to love, honor, and worship God. How to observe and obey God's laws. How to govern your life responsibly and take responsibility as God's designated authority over the earth. It teaches us how to love and appreciate life and be confident. Everything is made perfect by God-the Creator of all things. God designed our pains, suffering, and failures, not to destroy our lives but to shape our destiny to His glory, to draw us closer to Himself.

One Foot on the Shore: A Spiritual Journey to the Promised Land is the real-life journey of a wife and mother from North Carolina to the Promised Land of the Lord. It certainly was not an easy journey. Laugh and cry with her as she stumbled through the Red Sea ruts and then conquered the giants in the land. Her story starts simplistically with a call on her life that took years for her to recognize, but once the Lord's salvation became real to her, she was overwhelmed by His supernatural grace. Obedience became the hallmark of her existence. Spending hours in prayer and study of God's word produced many rewards seen and unseen at the time. "Obedience is better than sacrifice" is a reoccurring theme throughout her life as she follows Him and His guidance. Through her obedience to the Lord, she has reached multitudes with the Gospel of Jesus Christ with her anointed jewelry designs, like her signature piece, the Gospel PinTM. This piece and many of her other Christian jewelry designs were on the QVC Shopping Network for many years. As she shared her heart with her southern drawl on QVC, many millions were blessed to hear the gospel shared in such a unique way on a secular TV outlet.

This book provides a fresh examination of the cosmopolitan project of post-war Europe from a variety of perspectives. It explores the ways in which European cosmopolitanism can be theorized differently if we take into account histories which have rarely been at the forefront of such understandings. It also uses neglected historical resources to draw out new and unexpected entanglements and connections between understandings of European cosmopolitanism both in Europe and elsewhere. The final part of the book places European cosmopolitanism in tension with contemporary postcolonial configurations around diaspora, migration, and austerity. Overall, it seeks to draw attention to the ways in which Europe’s posited others have always been very much a part of Europe’s colonial histories and its postcolonial present.

Lord Krishna is at once historical and mythological. He is the awesome architect of His age and the illuminating mentor whose discourse, the Bhagavad Gita, is regarded as a light unto all ages. The book Krishna: A Journey through the Lands & Legends of Krishna describes well known tourist places and narrates the famous legends associated with them. It also presents places that may not be known to a common man but have witnessed the glorious pastimes of Lord Krishna and associated legends. It is an innovative book that has a happy blending of a travelogue with mythological reminiscences. The centres visited are placed in a setting which gives them a tinge of human emotions; brick and marble speak to the visitor and tell stories. The past and the present mingle, and the visit becomes a memorable experience.

Shamanism is the oldest type of spiritual practice on the planet. It has been practiced for centuries by indigenous cultures all over the world. Anthropologists have studied the practice for years. The core value of shamanism is that all things are alive and embody the spirit. This practice is a path of direct revelation and grants all individuals access to healing and guidance from the spirit world. It's a way of carrying knowledge that we are not separate from each other but are all connected. To access the spirit realm, you must perform the shamanic journey, making use of rattling, singing, and drumming to alter brain patterns to reach a state of consciousness. This state allows the shaman to become the bridge that connects spirit with matter and unseen with seen. These invisible realms house our helping spirits and they are typically in the form of guardians or power animals and teachers in human form. When you have an open communication with your helping spirits, you can send valuable information to and receive from them to explore a timeless healing form. This age-old practice can cure trauma and transform environmental pollution. This book will serve as a guide on your shamanic journey.

Tribes are everywhere we look and everywhere we go. They?re drawn together through common need and mutual interest, for preservation and protection. They?re bound to each other by love and blood, by fear and respect. At one time or another, tribes have formed on every continent of our world. They are our clans, our gangs, our clubs and fraternities, our corporations and congresses, our militaries and our families. They are tribe and each tribe has its own reasons for staying together. In Marcus F Griffin's new book, Tribe, Tending the Fires of the Great Spirit Within, readers will be taken on an amazing journey into dreams and visions, through the spirit and the mind along a path that leads us into the shamanic otherworld and even back through time to the beginnings of human spirituality. Readers will seek the sacred spark of the Great Spirit itself.

From the Preface In commenting on the journey of the children of Israel from Egypt to Canaan, the Apostle Paul said in I Cor 10:11, "All these things happened unto them by way of example and are written for our admonition." Here Paul teaches us that we can learn from this account of the history of Israel in two basic ways: (1) by looking at the example they set, and (2) by examining the fundamental principles and admonitions derived from their experiences. In these studies, we hope to accomplish two things: see their example and discover "the Gospel of the Canaan journey." It has often been said that there is no gospel in the Old Testament. The writer does not agree with this position and believes that there is just as much gospel in the Old Testament as in the New. It is there in type and symbol, in object lessons. The people looked forward to the cross in Old Testament times, but today people look back to the cross. The Old Testament is the New Testament concealed; the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed. Beautifully pictured in the Pentateuch is the Gospel of the Canaan Journey. These lessons have been prepared to make available practical material suitable for the pulpit, devotionals, Sunday school lessons, and prayer meeting discussions. The method of chronological development reveals the way the gospel is seen today. By making application, the reader is enabled to apply gospel truth and the saving power of Jesus Christ to his own soul and to those to whom he might minister. Herbert W. Byrne