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Social scientists and philosophers confronted with religious phenomena have always been challenged to find a proper way to describe the spiritual experiences of

Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations

The authors discuss the religious spiritual healing practice Reiki, revealing components of it that help transform the message held by the alleged life-force ca

This book examines evangelical dieting and fitness programs and provides a systematic approach of this diverse field with its wide variety of programs. When eva

Increasingly, it is being recognized that spirituality, defined here as "a multiform search for a transcendent meaning of life that connects them to all living