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Starling M: Pantheon - The Welsh

Pantheon - The Welsh

Religion at the Boundaries

Deconstructing the Study of New Religious Movements

‘Cult’ Rhetoric in the 21st Century

Case Studies of Key Thinkers

Understanding Religion through the Eyes of Others

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn’t absent from—but rather was at the heart of—Roman religion Belief and Cult argues that belief isn’t uniquely Christian but was central to ancient Roman religion. Drawing on cognitive theory, Jacob Mackey shows that despite having nothing to do with salvation or faith, belief underlay every aspect of Roman religious practices—emotions, individual and collective cult action, ritual norms, social reality, and social power. In doing so, he also offers a thorough argument for the importance of belief to other non-Christian religions. At the individual level, the book argues, belief played an indispensable role in the genesis of cult action and religious emotion. However, belief also had a collective dimension. The cognitive theory of Shared Intentionality shows how beliefs may be shared among individuals, accounting for the existence of written, unwritten, or even unspoken ritual norms. Shared beliefs permitted the choreography of collective cult action and gave cult acts their social meanings. The book also elucidates the role of shared belief in creating and maintaining Roman social reality. Shared belief allowed the Romans to endow agents, actions, and artifacts with socio-religious status and power. In a deep sense, no man could count as an augur and no act of animal slaughter as a successful offering to the gods, unless Romans collectively shared appropriate beliefs about these things. Closely examining augury, prayer, the religious enculturation of children, and the Romans’ own theories of cognition and cult, Belief and Cult promises to revolutionize the understanding of Roman religion by demonstrating that none of its features makes sense without Roman belief.

Rethinking Roman Religion

Belief and Cult

How Christianity both abolished and absorbed sacrificeFrom the beginning, sacrifice lived a double life in Christianity, both abandoned and essential. Christ's death on the cross was the sacrifice to end all sacrifice, eclipsing the temple sacrifices of Judaism and paganism. And yet at the center of the lived faith was the repetition of sacrifice: the offering of Christ's body, the sacrifices of ancient patriarchs, and the sacrifices of martyrs woven through liturgy, theology, and popular devotion. But this double life collapsed in the Reformation. Quarreling heirs to Christian truth discovered that the sacrifices they once called Christian might be nothing of the sort. To build their new faiths-to discover the truth of Christian sacrifice-they turned to the past, learning from Christianity as it was how Christianity ought to be. In On the Altar, Jonathan Sheehan offers a new account of sacrifice both sacred and secular. His story is in part a history of the Christian imagination across the centuries of the Reformation, when new martyrs and holy warriors fought for the truth of their sacrifices, when the empire of New World sacrifice was recruited to settle Christian conflicts, and when the sacrifices of the ancient Hebrews were weaponized for orthodoxy. But it is a history of the secular imagination as well, as the vast archive of Christian sacrifice was dispersed and applied to things that humans make, their religions, politics, and societies. With On the Altar, Sheehan reveals a new history of both Christianity and the secular world in which we still live.

A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular

On the Altar

The complete proceedings of the ESPD55 conference hosted by the&nbsp;McKenna Academy,&nbsp;carefully curated by Dennis McKenna.&nbsp; Esteemed speakers include Paul Stamets, Monica Gagliano and Wade Davis. How can we imagine the future of psychedelic therapies? How can ancestral knowledge bring depth to scientific research? What does sustainability look like for plant medicines through the indigenous perspective?&nbsp;Together with 30 of the most exciting minds in psychoactives research, ESPD55 conference addressed these and other fascinating topics including ayahuasca, fungi, huachuma, wilca, coca, kratom, marine sponges, and sound. Explore the world of ethnopharmacologic knowledge through various life-centric themes: the ethnosphere, phytosphere, mycosphere, faunasphere, archeosphere, sonosphere and beyond.&nbsp;

Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs

Was Ovid a surprising champion of women's sexual pleasure? Or did he just want them to fake it? Where did the British Museum curators hide the most pornographic of frescoes? And what exactly was the phallic wooden object excavated in 90's Northumberland? In APHRODISIA, Dr Jean Menzies dives into the hidden history of women's sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. The classical world stretched across the Mediterranean for more than a millennium, its people and cultures wide and varied and its sexual proclivities equally so. Yet so often when we read about sex in antiquity it is about the men folk first and foremost: which brothels they were visiting, how they balanced wives and lovers, and what they got up to in the gymnasium. Delving into the literature, art and artefacts of the ancient world, from sex toys to seduction tips to kink, Dr Jean Menzies instead centres women and their desire. In doing so, she uncovers the many faces of women's sexuality over the course of thousands of years, and asks intriguing, and sometimes provocative questions about women, sex and desire today.

Women, Sex and Pleasure in the Classical World

Aphrodisia

Ancient Sexuality and Identity Through Global Cultures

The Galli Priests of Cybele

Prayer, Transcendence and Realization of the Self

The Final Doorway to Enlightenment

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."- William Blake 
"A Season of Madness&nbsp;is a fantastic carnival of a book.
Equal parts irreverent and erudite, it lovingly captures the depth, complexity,
and subversive nature of the carnival, from its ancient roots to modern
expression. Gorgeously illustrated, intellectually hefty, and also&nbsp;fun, it
is a seductive introduction to the material cultures, legends, and history of
this perennially fascinating and slippery subject."—Joanna Ebenstein, Founder and Creative Director of Morbid
Anatomy Al Ridenour, creator and host of the popular podcast&nbsp;Bone
and Sickle&nbsp;and author of&nbsp;The Krampus and the Old, Dark
Christmas&nbsp;extends his study of Winter folk celebrations to the Spring,
exploring the Old-World Carnival in&nbsp;A Season of Madness.Sumptuously illustrated with over one hundred historical and
modern images, Ridenour ushers readers into cultural hinterlands where
celebrations still echo the cruel realities of the old, agricultural world, and
medieval Christianity intertwines with pagan practice.From&nbsp;ancient Rome to modern Bulgaria,&nbsp;readers
encounter a holiday at once beautiful, strange, and savage. Spring is welcomed
by clowns waving inflated pig bladders. Stalking sheepskin monsters brandish
clubs bristling with hedgehog spines, and plows are dragged over cobblestone
streets by celebrants wearing masks painted with cow’s blood. Folk horror fans
take heart as the Old World welcomes Spring!







Ridenour’s first book,&nbsp;Krampus and the Old, Dark
Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the&nbsp;Folkloric Devil&nbsp;(2018) is
considered by critics the definitive authority on pagan winter celebrations.
Aside from his books and podcast, Ridenour is a sought-after expert and
lecturer. "Sumptuously illustrated and written with clarity, eloquence,
and wry humor,&nbsp;A Season of Madness&nbsp;is one of those rare books that
can pass muster as an academic study yet also provide a good read. Al
Ridenour's meticulous research exposes the subtleties and outrageous quirks of
a topic you didn't know you wanted to learn about until you picked up his book.
Under his direction, the madness once again reigns, as the neglected history of
European Carnival is placed center stage before the reader, in all its seedy,
wild, and triumphant glory."&nbsp;—Dr. Paul Koudounaris, author and photographer
of:&nbsp;Faithful&nbsp;unto Death,&nbsp;Heavenly Bodies, and numerous other
exquisitely beautiful books about death.

Fools, Monsters, and Marvels of the Old-World Carnivals

A Season of Madness

Enter through the gates of ancient Rome to meet the Roman Pantheon! Explore the deities, the beliefs, and the sacred landscape that birthed not just a city or a people but also an empire.

An introductory guide to ancient Roman religion

Pantheon - The Romans

British Library Little Books

Illustrated with over 40 art pieces from the British Library's collections. An authoritative guide, written by a leading scholar in medieval literature and mythology. Retellings of beloved and lesser-known dragon legends from around the world.

The Little Book of Dragons

"This open access edited volume offers an understanding of how ancient texts, ranging from the historical and biographical to the oratorical and epistolary, demonstrate the negotiation and renegotiation of the concepts of otherness, identity and culture. Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars from across the world, this book presents an up-to-date insight into notions of identity and otherness, both at the level of the individual and community, in the ancient world. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., under the project Rome our Home: (Auto)biographical Tradition and the Shaping of Identity(ies) (PTDC/LLT-OUT/28431/2017)"--

Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this open-access volume presents an up-to-date discussion of these notions in the ancient world, both at the individual and community level. This open access edited volume offers insights into how ancient texts, ranging from the historical and biographical to the oratorical and epistolary, demonstrate the negotiation and renegotiation of otherness, identity and culture. 

 Roman identity emerged as the result of multiple interactions with real and imagined Others. This volume analyses specific case studies and networks of inclusion and transformation that informed concepts of unity, otherness and cultural identity. In part one, contributors discuss Roman perceptions of communal identity, considering ethnic, geographical, religious, occupational and social factors that informed various ideas of belonging and exclusion. Part two goes further by examining ancient texts from the perspectives of non-Romans, in addition to famous Roman figures who deviated from traditional models of identity.

The ebook editions of this book are available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Assumptions about the Other in Literary Evidence

Confronting Identities in the Roman Empire

Pantheon - The Welsh

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