religion

Presents a record through anecdotes, interviews, and legends of ancestral Celtic devotion about the reality of leprechauns, pixies, elves, fairies, and other nature spirits; and discusses how these beliefs became the standards of ancient Pagan magic.

What has a world-famous theologian discovered in the Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime that strikes him as absolutely essential for our survival?.

Discusses ancient Celtic wisdom, poetry, and blessings, covering such topics as work, aging, death, solitude, and friendship.

Discusses the history of race and religion in American politics, and describes how both opponents and supporters of slavery drew equally from the Holy Bible to support their claims, the 1830 slave revolt led by Nat Turner, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and more.

Explores the religion of the Norsemen, focusing on how particular gods and goddesses were part of, and honored in, the everyday lives of the Viking people.

Examines eleven religious traditions practiced by African-Americans since the seventeenth century, and includes a timeline of important events, a collection of short biographies of major figures, primary source documents, and first-person accounts of how religion is practiced by the African-American community.

This book examines how the Wamapanoag Indians' adoption of Christianity and other selective borrowing from English culture contributed to Indian/English coexistence and the long-term survival of Wamapanoag communities on the island of Martha's Vineyard, even as the racial barrier between peoples grew more rigid. On an island marked by centralized English authority, missionary commitment, and an Indian majority, the Wampanoags' adaptation to English culture, especially Christianity, checked violence while safeguarding their land, community, and ironically, even customs. Yet the colonists' exploitation of Indian land and labor exposed the limits of Christian fellowship and thus hardened racial division.

Presents an 1898 collection of more than twenty Native American creation myths and provides a scholarly introduction on its original editor, Jeremiah Curtin, discussing his collection and translation methods.