Author: Louise Lincoln
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Louise Lincoln
Publisher: George Braziller
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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The distinctive artistic styles of the people of New Ireland, an island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Melanesia in the South Pacific, are characterized by an appreciation for fine carving, a taste for vivid colors, and imaginative combinations of human and animal forms. This volume provides an elaborate visual repertoire of their art and explores the relationship between the art of New Ireland and the religion and rituals of its society.

Author: Louise Lincoln
Publisher: George Braziller Publishers
ISBN: 9780807611876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Steven C. Brown
Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN: 9780295979861
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Presents almost 175 examples of the art produced by the Native peoples of the Northwest Coast.

Author: Kate Ramsey
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226703819
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation’s founding and forms part of a contest over the legitimacy of the religion, both beyond and within Haiti’s borders. The Spirits and the Law examines that vexed history, asking why, from 1835 to 1987, Haiti banned many popular ritual practices. To find out, Kate Ramsey begins with the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Fearful of an independent black nation inspiring similar revolts, the United States, France, and the rest of Europe ostracized Haiti. Successive Haitian governments, seeking to counter the image of Haiti as primitive as well as contain popular organization and leadership, outlawed “spells” and, later, “superstitious practices.” While not often strictly enforced, these laws were at times the basis for attacks on Vodou by the Haitian state, the Catholic Church, and occupying U.S. forces. Beyond such offensives, Ramsey argues that in prohibiting practices considered essential for maintaining relations with the spirits, anti-Vodou laws reinforced the political marginalization, social stigmatization, and economic exploitation of the Haitian majority. At the same time, she examines the ways communities across Haiti evaded, subverted, redirected, and shaped enforcement of the laws. Analyzing the long genealogy of anti-Vodou rhetoric, Ramsey thoroughly dissects claims that the religion has impeded Haiti’s development.

Author: Don Lattin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520272323
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Chronicles the experiences of the author, a religion reporter, and his friendships with Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, and Bill Wilson, three men who had profound effects on the religion and spirituality of the twentieth century.

Author: William Thomas Stead
Publisher:
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Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: Eugene Crowell
Publisher:
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Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Author: Adam Benedict
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Fantastic reports of documented encounters between the living and the dead! Remarkable stories collected from all over the globe! Are these tales proof spirits walk among us? Or are these nothing more than recorded instances of pratical jokes that went too far? This collection of over 200] articles, direct from newspapers of the 1800s and 1900s, brings some of North America's strangest, most unique, and truly unbelievable ghost encounters out of the past and into your hands! Presented with zero spin or bias, this book delivers just the facts and allows you, the reader, to decide for yourself if the stories within actually happened or not. Within these pages are 120 collected years of reported hoaxes, practical jokes, scientific investigations, long lost legends, forgotten folklore, unsolved mysteries, and true crime events. Within these pages are 120 years of GHOSTS IN PRINT.

Author: Urantia Foundation
Publisher: Urantia Foundation
ISBN: 0911560513
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 2165

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Written in the form of a revelation from divine beings, the classic guide to expanding consciousness presents texts discussing God, the universe, angels and other beings, the history of the world, the development of civilization, personal spiritual growth, and the life and teachings of Jesus.