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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Syncretist & eclectic religions & belief systems > General
Included in this anthology are four of Crowley's seminal works: The
Book of Lies, The Book of the Law, Magick, and Cocaine. Each title
has been newly edited and revised based on the original
manuscripts, restoring each work as it was intended to be read by
Crowley.
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The Dark Fire
(Hardcover)
Wilhelm Haller; Translated by Stephen A. Engelking
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Lux in Tenebris is a collection of eighteen original
interdisciplinary essays that address aspects of the verbal and
visual symbolism in the works of significant figures in the history
of Western Esotericism, covering such themes as alchemy, magic,
kabbalah, angels, occult philosophy, Platonism, Rosicrucianism, and
Theosophy. Part I: Middle Ages & Early Modernity ranges from
Gikatilla, Ficino, Camillo, Agrippa, Weigel, Boehme, Yvon, and
Swedenborg, to celestial divination in Russia. Part II: Modernity
& Postmodernity moves from occultist thinkers Schwaller de
Lubicz and Evola to esotericism in literature, art, and cinema, in
the works of Colquhoun, Degouve de Nuncques, Bruskin, Doitschinoff,
and Perez-Reverte, with an essay on esoteric theories of colour.
Contributors are: Michael J.B. Allen, Susanna Akerman, Lina
Bolzoni, Aaron Cheak, Robert Collis, Francesca M. Crasta, Per
Faxneld, Laura Follesa, Victoria Ferentinou, Joshua Gentzke,
Joscelyn Godwin, Hans Thomas Hakl, Theodor Harmsen, Elke Morlok,
Noel Putnik, Jonathan Schorsch, Gyoergy Szoenyi, Carsten Wilke, and
Thomas Willard.
"Santo Daime: A New World Religion" deals with a young, exotic and
controversial religious movement. Emerging in the Brazilian Amazon
in the 1930s, Santo Daime has since spread to many of the world's
major cities. Santo Daime is a mixture of indigenous, popular
Catholic, Afro-Brazilian, esoteric, Spiritist, and new age beliefs
and activities. Ritual practice is centred on the consumption of a
psychotropic beverage called 'Daime' which members believe enhances
their interaction with the supernatural world. Because Daime is
treated as an illegal narcotic in many parts of the world, outside
of its Brazilian homeland most Santo Daime rituals are practised
clandestinely. This book unites extensive fieldwork experience with
an established theoretical background and makes a significant
contribution to understanding the contemporary interface of
religion and late-modern society. Individualization and religious
subjectivism, pluralization and religious hybridism, transformation
and detraditionalization, globalization and religious identity, and
commoditization and religious consumption are among the many issues
engaged by this book. "Santo Daime: A New World Religion" is an
accessible and multi-disciplinary book suitable for undergraduate
students and researchers working in Religious Studies, Sociology of
Religion, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Latin American
Studies.
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