Alternative Traditions & Esotericism Books

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1. Consumption and Spirituality

   Edited by Diego Rinallo, Linda Scott, Pauline Maclaran

   This book sheds light on the consumption of spiritual products, services, experiences, and places through state-of-the-art studies by leading and emerging scholars in interpretive consumer research, marketing, sociology, anthropology, cultural, and religious studies. The collection brings together...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-88911-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era

   By Judith Perkins

   Through the close study of texts, Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era examines the overlapping emphases and themes of two cosmopolitan and multiethnic cultural identities emerging in the early centuries CE – a trans-empire alliance of the Elite and the "Christians." Exploring the...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-59488-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Economics of American Judaism

   By Carmel Chiswick

   This book collects in one readily-accessible volume the pioneering research of Carmel U. Chiswick on the Economics of American Judaism. Filling a major gap in the social-scientific literature, Chiswick’s economic perspective complements that of other social scientists and historians. She...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-78004-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. The History of Witchcraft and Demonology

   By Montague Summers

   Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-56874-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Popular Religion in Russia: 'Double Belief' and the Making of an Academic Myth

   By Stella Rock

   This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that 'double belief', dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth. Scholars, citing the medieval origins of the term, have often portrayed Russian Christianity as uniquely muddied by...

   May 2009 | 978-0-415-54535-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Paganism

   Edited by Barbara Jane Davy

   Contemporary Paganism emerged in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s as a new religious movement, although practitioners understood themselves to be participating in a witchcraft tradition extending back into medieval—if not prehistoric—times. In recent decades, Pagan Studies has emerged through a...

   2008 | 978-0-415-43831-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Psychology and the Occult

   By C.G. Jung

   A fifteen-year-old girl who claimed regular communications with the spirits of her dead friends and relatives was the subject of the very first published work by the now legendary psychoanalyst C.G. Jung. Collected here, alongside many of his later writings on such subjects as life after death,...

   2008 | 978-0-415-43745-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Wicca and the Christian Heritage: Ritual, Sex and Magic

   By Joanne Pearson

   What is Wicca? Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality, mysticism, nature religion, secrecy, gnosis, the exotic or 'other'? Wicca has been defined by and explored within all these contexts over the past thirty years by anthropologists, sociologists and...

   2007 | 978-0-415-25414-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   New Religions in Global Perspective: Religious Change in the Modern World

   By Peter Clarke

   Peter B. Clarke’s in-depth account explores the innovative character of new religious movements and new forms of spirituality from a global vantage point. Ranging from North America and Europe to Japan, Latin America, South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, it is the perfect introduction to NRMs such...

   2005 | 978-0-415-25748-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    New Religions and the Nazis

    By Karla Poewe

    This book sheds light on an important but neglected part of Nazi history – the contribution of new religions to the emergence of Nazi ideology in 1920s and 1930s Germany. Post –World War I conditions threw Germans into major turmoil. The loss of the war, the Weimar Republic and the punitive...

    2005 | 978-0-415-29025-8 | Paperback (Routledge)