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Brian Bates · 320 pages
Tolkien readily admitted that the concept of Middle-earth was not his own invention. An Old English term for the Dark Age world, it was always assumed that the importance of magic in this world existed only in Tolkien's works; now Professor Brian Bates reveals the vivid truth about this historical culture. Behind the stories we know of Dark Age king and queens, warriors and battles, lies the hidde
The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
Carlo Ginzburg · 216 pages
Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protect their villages and harvests. If they won, the harvest would be good, if they lost, there would be
The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?
Tim Freke, Peter Gandy · 360 pages
Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions
Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson · 268 pages
Most people know of Valhalla, the World-Tree and the gods of Norse mythology, or of the strange hunts and voyages of the ancient Irish tales. Yet few people realise the significance of the similarities and contrasts between the religions of the pre-Christian people of north-western Europe. The Celts and Germans and Scandinavians had much in common in their religious practices and beliefs.... There
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology: An A-Z Guide to the Myths and Legends of the Ancient World
Arthur Cotterell, Rachel Storm
The Hiram Key
Christopher Knight, Robert Lomas · 456 pages
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
Don Lattin · 256 pages
Lattin examines the lives and times of four men--Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass), Andrew Weil, and Huston Smith--whose paths crossed in the 1960s at Harvard, and who consequently launched the mind, body, spirit movement.
God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
Gerald Posner · 742 pages
From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, this book traces the political intrigue and inner workings of the Catholic Church. Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this book is about the church's accumulation of wealth and its byzantine entanglements with financial markets across the world. Told throu
The 12th Planet
Zecharia Sitchin · 384 pages
Over the years, startling evidence has been uncovered, challenging established notions of the origins of life on Earth - evidence that suggests the evidence of an advanced group of extraterrestrials who once inhabited our world. The first book of the revolutionary Earth Chronicles series offers indisputable documentary evidence of the existence of the mysterious planet of Nibiru and tells why i
The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
Susan Jacoby · 256 pages
This book is a biography that restores America's foremost nineteenth-century champion of reason and secularism to our still contested twenty-first-century public square. From the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism comes a provocative portrait of Robert Green Ingersoll, known as "the Great Agnostic" and the foremost spokesman during America's Gilded Age for secularism and the
The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View
Richard Tarnas · 544 pages
Ten years in the making and already receiving wide critica acclaim, The Passion of the Western Mind is a major new inquiry into the evolution of our culture's consciousness, from the dawn of Western civilization to the dawn of the twenty-first century. This is the epic sstory of our intellectual and spiritual heritage, a story never before told with such breadth of focus and clarity of insight.
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
Joseph Loconte · 235 pages
"The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis"--Amazon.com.
The Aleppo Codex: The True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible
Matti Friedman · 318 pages
This true-life detective story unveils the journey of a sacred text--the tenth-century annotated bible known as the Aleppo Codex--from its hiding place in a Syrian synagogue to the newly founded state of Israel.
The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels
Janet Martin Soskice · 334 pages
Written about Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson, 50ish twin sisters who travelled to Sinai around 1892 to visit the Convent of Saint Catherine to explore the library there, where they made a stunning discovery that changed the world's perception of the Gospels. You might also like to read Gibson's account, [*How the Codex Was Found*][1]. [1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1106971W/How_the_co
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel
John Guy · 462 pages
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
Riane Eisler · 261 pages
"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society based on the recovery of more humane values."--Library journal (6/1/85).
Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World
Lawrence Goldstone, Nancy Goldstone · 368 pages
"Michael Servetus is one of those hidden figureheads of history who is remembered not for his name but for the revolutionary deeds that stand in his place. Both a scientist and a freethinking theologian, Servetus is credited with the discovery of pulmonary circulation in the human body as well as the authorship of a polemical masterpiece that cost Servetus his life. The Christianismi Restitutio,
The Last Days of Jesus: His Life and Times
Bill O'Reilly · 317 pages
Packed with fascinating details, this fast-paced narrative will transport readers back in time. In an exploration of the political and social landscape at the time of Jesus's life, Bill O'Reilly takes on the questions surrounding his death. Who was involved in the trial and sentencing of Jesus? What circumstances led to his conviction? What were the motivations in killing Jesus? A special illustr
A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837
Paul E. Johnson · 232 pages