Comparative Religion category: 1410 books

New religious movements—commonly known as cults—are defined as organizations that have arisen within the last 200 years. Most treatments of these movements have typically resorted to sensationalism rather than objectivity, and New religious movements tend to receive negative media publicity. Despite...

Camille Paige is a young, aspiring R&B singer who will stop at nothing to attain her dreams. After hearing about supposed demonic influences of the music industry, she becomes a bit skeptical. But when strange entities outside of the physical realm begin to reveal themselves to her and she refuses...

"Here finally are Eliade's memoirs of the first thirty years of his life in Mac Linscott Rickett's crisp and lucid English translation. They present a fascinating account of the early development of a Renaissance talent, expressed in everything from daily and periodical journalism, realistic and fantastic...

Selling more than 200,000 copies, Living Wicca has helped countless solitary practitioners blaze their own spiritual paths. Let the wise words of Scott Cunningham guide you toward a new level of practice. Living Wicca takes a philosophical look at the questions, practices, and differences within Witchcraft....

“Faraj” is a Farsi word meaning an opening, a blessing, a space of possibility. Ābtin journeys for a whole year, across deserts and mountains to the sea. The young Zoroastrian hopes to come to terms with his harsh father and his own ambivalence about the art of carpet weaving. He dreams of Mitrā,...

Partiendo de los textos sumerio acádigos le hacemos un seguimiento al Gran Anunaki que ha sometido la conciencia de la humanidad en el miedo, el dolor y los sacrificios sangrientos. Desvelamos el camuflaje de su terrorífica personalidad y descubrimos sus nombres y proceder en el hilo de la historia...

Este es un trabajo que presenta la leyenda cruda, real, de Hermes. Sus travesuras infantiles, su amistad con el invencible Apolo, el robo del rayo de Zeus, el Tridente de Neptuno, la Espada de Marte, el Cinturón de Venus y las cincuenta terneras Celestes de Apolo.Ademá, es una develación...

Presentamos tres enfoques sobre el culto a la Gran Diosa Madre basados en el mito de la Diosa que ha perdurado desde sus orígenes. Es un recorrido analítico de las creencias desde Sumeria hasta el siglo actual. El texto está escrito en lenguaje sencillo, fácil de comprender. Es un valioso documento...

En Génesis 6 se cuenta que cuando los hombres comenzaron a multiplicarse sobre la faz de la tierra, les nacieron hijas e hijos. Y viendo los Hijos de Dios que las Hijas de los Hombres eran hermosas, las tomaron como esposas, escogiendo entre ellas. Estas uniones dieron como resultado el nacimiento...

Joseph Campbell wrote this article for a collection of essays, Psychoanalysis and Culture, printed in 1951 to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of the famed psychiatrist and ethnologist, Géza Róheim. In it, he seeks to define the biological roots of the human mythic impulse. Written two years...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of A History of God tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Karen Armstrong’s book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.    This...

The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Baltic region, Hungary, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending as late as the eighteenth, these holy wars...

It's a masterpiece...if you're interested in American Masonry and its impact on our country, this book is for you.—Brent Morris, The Scottish Rite Journal

That is the Book, wherein is no doubt, a guidance to the godfearing who believe in the Unseen, and perform the prayer, and expend of that We have provided them; who believe in what has been sent down to thee and what has been sent down before thee, and have faith in the Hereafter; those are upon guidance from their Lord, those are the ones who prosper.