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Praise for the previous editions:"Clearly the best reference work on the subject now available."
Product Details :
Genre |
: Body, Mind & Spirit |
Author |
: Rosemary Guiley |
Publisher |
: Infobase Publishing |
Release |
: 2010-05-12 |
File |
: 449 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781438126845 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
Covers the history of witchcraft from 1750 B.C.E. though the modern day. Includes a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography featuring cross-referenced entries on witch hunts, witchcraft trials, and related practices around the world.
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Genre |
: Body, Mind & Spirit |
Author |
: Jonathan Bryan Durrant |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Release |
: 2012 |
File |
: 293 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780810872455 |
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The definitive compilation on witchcraft and witch hunting in the early modern era exploring significant people, places, beliefs, and events. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition is the definitive reference on the age of witch hunting (approximately 1430–1750), its origins, expansion, and ultimate decline. Incorporating a wealth of recent scholarship in four richly illustrated, alphabetically organized volumes, it offers historians and general readers alike the opportunity to explore the realities behind the legends of witchcraft and witchcraft trials. Over 170 contributors from 28 nations provide vivid, documented descriptions and analyses of witchcraft trials and locations, folklore and beliefs, magical practices and deities, influential texts, and the full range of players in this extraordinary drama—witchcraft theorists and theologians; historians and authors; judges, clergy, and rulers; the accused; and their persecutors. Concentrating on Europe and the Americas in the early modern era, the work also covers relevant topics from the ancient Near East (including the Hebrew and Christian Bibles), classical antiquity, and the European Middle Ages.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Richard M. Golden Director, Jewish Studies Program |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Release |
: 2006-01-30 |
File |
: 1310 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781851095124 |
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A comprehensive illustrated reference guide with more than 400 entries on the subjects of magic and alchemy.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Alchemy |
Author |
: Rosemary Guiley |
Publisher |
: Infobase Publishing |
Release |
: 2006 |
File |
: 385 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781438130002 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
This encyclopedia covers all aspects of witchcraft: magical tools, rituals, concepts, and traditions as well as witchcraft-related deities and historical events. It offers entries about important figures in the field of witchcraft, from witch-trial judges and other persecutors to people at the forefront of the modern witchcraft movement. Compelling entries present definitions of important terms, biographies of central figures, and brief narratives of pivotal events.
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Genre |
: Young Adult Nonfiction |
Author |
: Patricia D. Netzley |
Publisher |
: Greenhaven Publishing LLC |
Release |
: 2009-06-25 |
File |
: 290 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780737746389 |
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The author of the popular Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells and Encyclopedia of Spirits now explores the exciting magic and power of the mystical world of witches in Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, a comprehensive reference book that covers everything you ever wanted to know about this fascinating topic. Folklore expert Judika Illes introduces readers to mythic witches, modern witches, sacred goddess witches, even demon witches, male and female witches, witches from all over the globe. She takes readers on an enchanting tour through witchcraft’s history, mythology, and folklore, where they will discover a miscellany of facts including magic spells, rituals, potions, recipes, celebrations, traditions, and much more.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Body, Mind & Spirit |
Author |
: Judika Illes |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Release |
: 2015-05-05 |
File |
: 824 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780062372024 |
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Jewish esotericism is the oldest and most influential continuous occult tradition in the West. Presenting lore that can spiritually enrich your life, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia is devoted to the esoteric in Judaism—the miraculous and the mysterious. In this second edition, Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis has added over thirty new entries and significantly expanded over one hundred other entries, incorporating more knowledge and passages from primary sources. This comprehensive treasury of Jewish teachings, drawn from sources spanning Jewish scripture, the Talmud, the Midrash, the Kabbalah, and other esoteric branches of Judaism, is exhaustively researched yet easy to use. It includes over one thousand alphabetical entries, from Aaron to Zohar Chadesh, with extensive cross-references to related topics and new illustrations throughout. Drawn from the well of a great spiritual tradition, the secret wisdom within these pages will enlighten and empower you. Praise: "An erudite and lively compendium of Jewish magical beliefs, practices, texts, and individuals...This superb, comprehensive encyclopedia belongs in every serious library."—Richard M. Golden, Director of the Jewish Studies Program, University of North Texas, and editor of The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition "Rabbi Dennis has performed a tremendously important service for both the scholar and the novice in composing a work of concise information about aspects of Judaism unbeknownst to most, and intriguing to all."—Rabbi Gershon Winkler, author of Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism
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Genre |
: Body, Mind & Spirit |
Author |
: Geoffrey W. Dennis |
Publisher |
: Llewellyn Worldwide |
Release |
: 2016-02-08 |
File |
: 561 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780738748146 |
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In the fifteenth century many authorities did not believe Inquisitors' stories of a supposed Satanic witch sect. However, the religious conflict of the sixteenth-century Reformation - especially popular movements of reform and revolt - helped to create an atmosphere in which diabolical conspiracies (which swept up religious dissidents, Jews and magicians into their nets) were believed to pose a very real threat. Fear of the Devil and his followers inspired horrific incidents of judicially-approved terror in early modern Europe, leading after 1560 to the infamous witch hunts. Bringing together the fields of Reformation and witchcraft studies, this fascinating book reveals how the early modern period's religious conflicts led to widespread confusion and uncertainty. Gary K. Waite examines in-depth how church leaders dispelled rising religious doubt by persecuting heretics, and how alleged infernal plots, and witches who confessed to making a pact with the Devil, helped the authorities to reaffirm orthodoxy. Waite argues that it was only when the authorities came to terms with pluralism that there was a corresponding decline in witch panics.
Product Details :
Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Gary K Waite |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Release |
: 2019-10-10 |
File |
: 284 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780230629127 |
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This book introduces students to the anthropology of magic and witchcraft, terms widely used but without widely accepted definitions. It takes a new approach to this area within the anthropology of religion, demonstrating that the bases for these beliefs and alleged practices are inherent in human cognition and psychology, even instinctual, and likely rooted in our evolutionary biology. It shows how magic and magical thinking are regular elements in people’s daily lives, and that understanding the components of the witchcraft complex offers surprisingly important insights into patterns of thinking and social behavior. The book reviews the many meanings of “magic” and “witchcraft,” and introduces the best anthropological meanings of the terms. The components of these beliefs are timeless and universal; this fact, and recent advances in the brain sciences, suggest that the principles of magic are derived from basic processes of human thinking, and the attributes of the witch derive from neurobiologically based fears and fantasies. The propensity for such beliefs probably had adaptive significance in the evolutionary development of the human species; they are inherently human. This book is intended to focus anew on the core concepts of magic, witchcraft, and the supernatural, while also serving as an introduction to the anthropology of religion for undergraduate and graduate-level courses.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Phillips Stevens, Jr. |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Release |
: 2023-12-12 |
File |
: 194 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781000998764 |
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Recognize and refute the Far East false religions What do these religions teach and why? How can a Christian be an effective witness for Jesus Christ when presented with ideas that are so different from a biblical perspective? How can these religions be refuted and biblical authority be the standard? This eye-opening second volume deals with many Eastern religions like Hinduism, Taoism, New Age, Sikhism, Confucianism, Shinto, and Buddhism, as well as other pagan-based systems like Witchcraft, Voodoo, and Greek mythology (and many more)! This volume dives into these styles of religions and looks at their origins and their basic tenets as well as why they fall so short. Understanding the basic tenets of these religions helps the Bible believer see the flaws in these philosophies and discern how to be an effective witness for Jesus Christ while standing on the authority of the Bible.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: Bodie Hodge |
Publisher |
: New Leaf Publishing Group |
Release |
: 2016-05-01 |
File |
: 496 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781614585046 |