Jeffrey Kripal

The Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Religion series serves undergraduate students and interested lay readers who have had little or no exposure to the academic study of religion. Each handbook provides an introduction to a subfield of the study of religion. "Handbook" is to be understood in the simple sense of "This is how you do it." The volumes strive for both intellectual clarity and a genuinely accessible voice, always emphasizing this how-to approach. Interdisciplinary in nature, the volumes employ numerous perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and the arts to interrogate and explore those complex sets of human experience and activity that have traditionally been gathered under the rubric of "religion." For example, the volume (and summary Primer chapter) on material culture will show how exhibiting sacred art provides an illuminating lens through which to enter religious studies. Each chapter ends with a summary. Each volume is overseen by a specialist in its field.

Secret Religion

Religion

Theodore Roszak

Erik Davis

John Graham

James Diego Vigil

Josef Chytry

Janferie Stone

Craig Lockwood

Ted Wells

Brian Chidester

Colette Gaiter

Cal Winslow

California's social and cultural revolution that began after WW II shaped the world as we know it today.

Art and Culture Abide Then Divide Along the California Coast

Bohemian Highways

Wouter J. Hanegraaff

The history of Western esotericism is rich in references to the domains of eros and sexuality, but this connection has never been explored in detail from a critical scholarly perspective. Bringing together an impressive array of top-level specialists, this volume reveals the outlines of a largely unknown history spanning more than twenty centuries.

Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism

Hidden Intercourse

Jeffrey Kripal

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