This book challenges scholars' assumption, without any explicit evidence, of institutionalized public prayer with fixed contents and times in the Q...

In this second volume, Pagan Heart focuses on the veneration of nature -- flora, fauna, elements, celestial bodies -- and on rituals of the season...

Often we find it difficult to concentrate on the prayers we recite, due partly to a lack of understanding of the biblical poetry in the tefillot. T...

Mount Kailas remains fascinating, lying as it does on the far side of the main Himalayan range in a remote region of Tibet. It is one of the most s...

In South India there is a society where priests and lay people claim supernatural powers. Where a sophisticated medical system underlies a quest fo...

A 'Sâdhana' is an instrument that leads to a particular goal. In Tantra, it is a technical term denoting worship or spiritual practice. This is a c...

The Pagan Heart of the West challenges current academic notions that paganism died when Christianization occurred; that the transition from paganis...

In this fifth and final volume, we consider the persistence and transformation of pagan traditions in philosophy and the arts. This final volume al...