Author: Heidi Holland Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa ISBN: 0143527851 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 207
Book Description
Africa's traditional beliefs - including ancestor worship, divination and witchcraft - continue to dominate its spiritual influences. Readers in search of a better understanding of the continent will be enriched by this book's timely exploration of sub-Saharan Africa's natural philosophy. The author's meticulous research reveals that, whereas technology-driven Western societies prefer to rely largely on logical explanations, many Africans continue to obey their intuition - trusting in images, dreams and divination to rationalise misfortune and illness. African Magic explains why so many Africans understand the relationship between people and unfortunate events not through the Western concept of chance in the case of accidents, or germ theory in the case of illness, but through belief in witchcraft. The book records a collection of true stories which illustrate this traditional belief system. Included are the famous Malawian diviner whose prophecies were considered so accurate that people flocked from neighbouring countries to consult him; a group of Western-trained Mozambican psychologists who successfully refined cross-cultural therapy by working with traditional healers to combat post-traumatic stress syndrome among child soldiers; Ghanaian and Zimbabwean 'witches' living in a nightmare world where popular belief becomes their reality; and a Zambian archbishop whose attempt to embrace traditional African beliefs provoked serious conflict within his Christian church.
Author: Monique Joiner Siedlak Publisher: Oshun Publications, LLC ISBN: 1956319956 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
Updated 2023 The Seven African Powers, also known as the Orishas, are spirits from the Supreme Creator in African religion. These spirits are thought to give guidance for life issues and problems. Modern Santeria, Voodoo, and other Caribbean traditions still value this practice today. It can be found in different South American cultures as well. This book will guide you through learning about the Seven African Powers…who they are, what they represent, and how each has a different temperament. You’ll also know how the Orishas can be used in your home and daily routine. Once you discover the Orishas, you’ll be on your way to understanding which one will best help you work through difficulties and move forward in life.
Author: Neil Gaiman Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 1779504632 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of the Sandman Universe like you've never seen before - from Neil Gaiman's orginal ground breaking Books of Magic mini-series, though the worlds he inspired that followed! What do two dead boys and a normal 13-year-old have in common? The ability to save the world. Charles and Edwin are dead. They're also detectives. Tim Hunter is alive. He could be the world's greatest mage...once he masters magic. And that's just the beginning. Readers can now enjoy The Books of Magic #1-32, The Children's Crusade #1-2, Vertigo Gallery: Dreams and Nightmares #1, Vertigo Preview #1, Vertigo Visions - Doctor Occult #1, Who's Who #15, Arcana Annual #1, Mister E #1-4, and The Books of Faerie: Auberon's Tale #1-3 all in one place!
Author: Peter Haining Publisher: ISBN: 9780800808099 Category : American fiction Languages : en Pages : 413
Book Description
Such writers as Crowley, Lovecraft, Le Guin, Graves, and Borges offer twenty-nine stories grounded in fact and exploring historical and contemporary dimensions and practices of the black arts
Author: Karen L Mead Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
A high-schooler just wants to study and get into a good college. How is she supposed to find the time to serve a Demon Lord?Cassie divides her time between working a cash register and studying like crazy to get accepted to a top-tier university. She's on track until one fateful day, a spell cast by one mysterious barista transforms her from a regular teen to a valuable familiar: a magical well a demon can tap. Now all the creatures of Hell are fighting over her, and the demon who bound her would rather serve lattes than deal with it. She'd be happy to protect herself, but how can she do that when she can't even cast spells yet? Cassie had better figure it out fast, or else she has a better chance of becoming some demon's little pet than making the Dean's List.Join Cassie in the first book of Demonic Café, a vibrant urban fantasy world of snarky demons, vicious black magic spells, political intrigue, and paranormal coffee...well, the coffee is normal, but it's prepared by paranormal creatures. Drink at your own risk.
Author: Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec Publisher: V&R unipress ISBN: 3737014701 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 206
Book Description
In his 1978 book Nelson Goodman coined the term “worldmaking.” The new-materialistic approach to the potential for meaning of extra-human materiality and its multidimensional entanglements and the intraconnectedness shifts the concept of world-making into new perspectives of interpretation. In the categories of Karen Barad’s “agential realism,” it applies to practices of knowledge production and to a diffractive (re)configuration of the world’s matter and its meaning. “World-making” gains a further specific expression in Donna Haraway’s concept of “worlding” which shows the intraactive entanglement of matter, substance, meaning, storytelling and thinking on the fundamental level of the polysemic linguistic tissue itself.
Author: Jed MacKay Publisher: BOOM! Studios ISBN: 9781684158140 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
The Planeswalkers must unite in order to save not only Ravnica, but all of existence in this second chapter of the best-selling reimagining of the pop culture phenomenon! WILL THE PLANESWALKERS UNITE TO SAVE THE MULTIVERSE? The cabal of Kaya, Ral, and Vraska gather unlikely aid from the Planeswalker Tezzeret, who has been watching the trio. Banding together they lead a daring rescue mission at the Hospital of the Frozen Heart for the mortally injured Jace Beleren… who may be the key to saving Ravnica. But there is a larger threat looming and the Planeswalkers must again ask for assistance, this time from the necromancer Liliana Vess. It will take everyone to stand up to a common threat… but who will fall in doing so? The next chapter of the best-selling reimagining of the worldwide pop culture phenomenon is here from Jed MacKay (Marvel’s Black Cat) and Ig Guara (Marvel’s Ghost-Spider)! Collects Magic #6-10.
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