Product Description: A theologically informed look at the postcolonial self that forms as Korean immigrants confront life in the United States. Theologian Choi Hee An explores how Korean immigrants create a new, postcolonial identity in response to life in the United States...read more

Product Description: To Come to a Better Understanding analyzes the cultural encounters of the medicine men and clergy meetings held on Rosebud Reservation in St. Francis, South Dakota, from 1973 through 1978. Organized by Father Stolzman, a Catholic priest studying Lakota religious practice, the meetings fit the goal of the recently formed Medicine Men’s Association to share its members’ knowledge about Lakota thought and ritual...read more

Product Description: The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general...read more

Product Description: In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant First Nation near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, to participate in a peyote ceremony hosted by the Native American Church...read more

Product Description: This Rasta book was written to answer all your questions concerning following the faith of Rastafari. Questions such as, how to convert to Rastafari, How to meditate as a Rastafari, 6 spiritual obligations... the purpose of King Selassie I and Empress Menen as a Rasta, how to choose a Rasta name, what foods are forbidden as Rasta, and how do I raise a Rasta child...read more

Product Description: Religious Beliefs. The Maori held an essentially spiritual view of the universe. Anything associated with the supernatural was invested with tapu, a mysterious quality which made those things or persons imbued with it either sacred or unclean according to context...read more

Product Description: Wicca Box Set Masterclass Kit Everything you need to know about the Peaceful Wicca Religion in one Box Set This box set of two wicca books will show you the charming beliefs and traditions of the Wiccan way of life This starters kit is a great start for anyone interested in and curious about the Wiccan religion or already practicing Wiccans who want to learn more and go deeper into Wiccan Rituals, Traditions and Spells...read more

Product Description: Wondering how you'll ever get dinner on the table? Mix and Match Mama is here to help! Popular blogger Shay Shull knows that to feed her busy family of five, she needs a plan, exact recipes, a solid grocery list, and a well-stocked pantry...read more

Product Description: Great for the busy woman, novice baker, and anyone who loves to have their cake and eat it too! Discover mouthwatering new favorites for holidays, celebrations, special days, and every day likePumpkin Spice Latte CakeCadbury Creme Egg CakeSalted Caramel Mocha CakeCrunchy Pretzel CakeChocolate Coffee Hazelnut CakeMix-and-Match Cakes is full of easy and delicious recipes that will make you a star as you elevate the lowly cake mix into a taste sensation your family and friends will crave...read more

Product Description: Before invasion, Turtle Island-or North America-was home to vibrant cultures that shared long-standing philosophical precepts. The most important and wide-spread of these was the view of reality as a collaborative binary known as the Twinned Cosmos of Blood and Breath...read more

Product Description: Zion is that place Black people have longed to go to; it is the known metaphor for Freedom. In Awake In The Dark: On The Road From Babylon To Zion by author Roshan Cipriani, it becomes so much more than just a metaphor. This book takes readers along on the mental and spiritual journey from Babylon to Zion and the awakening it requires in preparation for the coming physical journey...read more

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Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a "god" (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes three concepts that are foundational to Aztec religion—teotl (god), teixiptla (localized embodiment of a god), and tlaquimilolli (sacred bundles containing precious objects)—to shed new light on the Aztec understanding of how spiritual beings take on form and agency in the material world.In The Fate of Earthly Things, Molly Bassett draws on ethnographic fieldwork, linguistic analyses, visual culture, and ritual studies to explore what ritual practices such as human sacrifice and the manufacture of deity embodiments (including humans who became gods), material effigies, and sacred bundles meant to the Aztecs. She analyzes the Aztec belief that wearing the flayed skin of a sacrificial victim during a sacred rite could transform a priest into an embodiment of a god or goddess, as well as how figurines and sacred bundles could become localized embodiments of gods. Without arguing for unbroken continuity between the Aztecs and modern speakers of Nahuatl, Bassett also describes contemporary rituals in which indigenous Mexicans who preserve costumbres (traditions) incorporate totiotzin (gods) made from paper into their daily lives. This research allows us to understand a religious imagination that found life in death and believed that deity embodiments became animate through the ritual binding of blood, skin, and bone.