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"If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This
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Language: en
Pages: 333
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Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

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Contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing, and discusses the social role of both rituals
Wondrous Events
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Authors: James McClenon
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-09-29 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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James McClenon examines the relationship between wondrous events—extrasensory perception, apparitions, out-of-body and near-death experiences, sleep paralysis
Teaching Ritual
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Many teachers share an interest in bringing a better appreciation of ritual into their religious studies classes, but are uncertain how to do it. Religious stud
Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece
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This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider se