Download or read book The Superstition Diaries From Ancient Lore to Modern Beliefs written by Brenda dunams and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Fear, Belief, and the Unseen", From ancient civilizations to modern times, this comprehensive exploration uncovers the fascinating stories behind superstitions.
Download or read book Notes on Superstition and Folk Lore 1885 written by Jeanie M. Laing and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions written by Martin Lings and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superstitions written by Peter Lorie and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we avoid walking under ladders? What is the meaning of ...? Superstitions nrings us to the beginning of all the most common and many less familiar rituals, porions, cures, etc.
Download or read book Superstition A Very Short Introduction written by Stuart Vyse and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you touch wood for luck, or avoid hotel rooms on floor thirteen? Would you cross the path of a black cat, or step under a ladder? Is breaking a mirror just an expensive waste of glass, or something rather more sinister? Despite the dominance of science in today's world, superstitious beliefs - both traditional and new - remain surprisingly popular. A recent survey of adults in the United States found that 33 percent believed that finding a penny was good luck, and 23 percent believed that the number seven was lucky. Where did these superstitions come from, and why do they persist today? This Very Short Introduction explores the nature and surprising history of superstition from antiquity to the present. For two millennia, superstition was a label derisively applied to foreign religions and unacceptable religious practices, and its primary purpose was used to separate groups and assert religious and social authority. After the Enlightenment, the superstition label was still used to define groups, but the new dividing line was between reason and unreason. Today, despite our apparent sophistication and technological advances, superstitious belief and behaviour remain widespread, and highly educated people are not immune. Stuart Vyse takes an exciting look at the varieties of popular superstitious beliefs today and the psychological reasons behind their continued existence, as well as the likely future course of superstition in our increasingly connected world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Download or read book The Victorian City written by Harold James Dyos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian City is a study of the social and intellectual attitudes of Victorian society to the challenge of urbanization.
Download or read book Problems of Birth Defects written by T.V.N. Persaud and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprisingly, the beginning of a modern approach This collection of articles and commentaries is an to the problems of birth defects is relatively recent integration of information from many disciplines, and dates from Gregg's classical report in 1941 that and presents a comprehensive survey of both recent mothers who contracted rubella during the first tri and previously reported work related to the major mester of pregnancy gave birth to infants with severe aspects of birth defects. In particular, an attempt multiple anomalies. For the first time, an environ has been made to provide a critical assessment of mental agent was found to be teratogenic in man current concepts and to identify areas in need of and was documented in a thoroughly convincing further investigation. manner. Since then, many important discoveries The scope of this volume and space limitations and significant developments have been made, par precluded discussion of and reference to all papers ticularly in the areas of environmental teratogenesis, of relevance or importance: a work of the present hereditary mechanisms, and prenatal diagnosis. nature must necessarily be selective. Some good In recent years, there has been an impressive papers have been left out or given relatively little surge of interest in the causes and prevention of consideration. It is my hope that the list of Further birth defects. Undoubtedly this resulted not only References will be consulted and should compensate from the thalidomide tragedy, but also from the for this lack of completeness.
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Download or read book A Believable World written by Bahar Hatami and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside this book some of the world's most unconventional beliefs, rituals, and superstitions are revealed. Read about Shingon monks of Japan who believed in mummifying themselves while they were still alive and how they did it; women of the Dani tribe deep in the Indonesian jungle who amputate one of their fingers in performing the ritual of Ikipalin when a loved one dies; and boys in the Brazilian Amazon who achieve manhood by withstanding the severe, paralyzing pain of being bitten by bullet ants for several hours. These are just a few of the beliefs you will explore in the eye-opening true stories of rituals practiced around the world. Colorful illustrations throughout the book allow you to see the world through a new lens.Author Bahar Hatami writes, "Rituals and beliefs may be different throughout the world but the powerful effects they have on our minds and bodies may be the same. We all share this same experience and phenomenon in some way or another."In doing my research for this book I wanted to share different stories from around the world to hopefully come to a better understanding of where our beliefs stem from as a society, culture, or religion."
Download or read book Baptism Church and Society in Modern Britain written by David M. Thompson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an enlarged version of the author's Hulsean Lectures in the University of Cambridge for 1983-4. It considers the main movements in the theology of baptism, both that of infants and believers, in Great Britain from the Evangelical Revival to the publication of the World Council of Churches Faith and Order Commission's consensus statement on Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry of 1982. Thus as well as the shifts in the Church of England from evangelical to tractarian, 'broad church' to liberal catholic, there is a survey of the views of Methodists, Baptists and Congregationalists, with reflections from the scene in Scotland and Ireland, during the same period. It offers a survey of popular belief and practice about baptism from the eighteenth century to the present, because of the author's conviction that theological movements have to be seen in their historical context. In the case of baptism, in particular, a consistent difference has persisted between popular perceptions and the Churches' expectations, which poses significant challenges to the understanding of the Churches' mission in contemporary society.
Download or read book The Universal Cyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Regionalism and Modern Europe written by Xosé M. Núñez Seixas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a valuable overview of regionalism throughout the entire continent, Regionalism in Modern Europe combines both geographical and thematic approaches to examine the origins and development of regional movements and identities in Europe from 1890 to the present. A wide range of internationally renowned scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe are brought together here in one volume to examine the historical roots of the current regional movements, and to explain why some of them - Scotland, Catalonia and Flanders, among others – evolve into nationalist movements and even strive for independence, while others – Brittany, Bavaria – do not. They look at how regional identities - through regional folklore, language, crafts, dishes, beverages and tourist attractions - were constructed during the 20th century and explore the relationship between national and subnational identities, as well as regional and local identities. The book also includes 7 images, 7 maps and useful end-of-chapter further reading lists. This is a crucial text for anyone keen to know more about the history of the topical – and at times controversial – subject of regionalism in modern Europe.
Download or read book Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from Utah written by Anthon Steffensen Cannon and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tradesmen s Tokens Current in London and Its Vicinity Between the Years 1648 and 1672 written by John Yonge Akerman and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Locating Irish Folklore written by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin and published by Cork University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, Irish Folklore is a key text that uses Nordic ethnography methods and Latin American culture theory to explain how differing groups legitimise their own identities by identifying with notions drawn from folklore.
