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Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine: An Investigation of the Study of Mysticism in World Religions

Philip C. Almond

Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the…

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God: A New Biography

Philip C. Almond

The story of God is the story of a paradox. It is the drama of a transcendent, timeless being who, throughout history, has supposedly engaged with immanent and mortal creatures…

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The Witches of Warboys: An Extraordinary Story of Sorcery, Sadism and Satanic Possession in Elizabethan England

Philip C. Almond

There is no more dramatic story in the annals of English witchcraft than that of the witches of Warboys. This book shows how, at one level, the story of Warboys…

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England’s First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and ‘The Discoverie of Witchcraft

Philip C. Almond

England’s First Demonologist makes a notable contribution to a fascinating but unjustly neglected topic in the study of Early Modern England and European intellectual history.

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Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England

Philip C. Almond

An account of ideas about life after death and changing concepts of heaven and hell in English thought from 1650 to 1750. The book discloses a society in which fleeting…

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Rudolf Otto: An Introduction to His Philosophical Theology

Philip C. Almond

Almond places Otto’s theory of religion within the context of his life (1869-1937), looking closely at the significant influences on Otto’s thought, among them thinkers as different as Kant and…

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Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England

Philip C. Almond

This book examines life after death and changing concepts of heaven and hell in English thought from 1650 to 1750. It explores seventeenth- and eighteenth-century images of the journey of…

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The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill

Philip C. Almond

The women who lived in the vicinity of Pendle, who were accused, convicted and hanged alongside the so-called Salmesbury Witches, were more than just wicked sorcerers whose malign incantations caused…

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The Devil: A New Biography

Philip C. Almond

Philip C. Almond explores the figure of evil incarnate from the first centuries of the Christian era through to the Enlightenment, when the Devil became marginal to Christian theology and…

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The Devil: A New Biography

Philip C. Almond

The story of Satan: From Fallen Angel to Prince of Darkness

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The Buddha

Philip C. Almond

Philip Almond's engaging new book is the first to combine a history of early traditions about the Buddha's life with an account of how he and the philosophy inspired by…

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Afterlife: A History of Life after Death

Philip C. Almond

As Philip C. Almond reveals in his new and zestful history of the hereafter, whichever image or metaphor has been employed by visionaries, writers, philosophers, or theologians, it has tended…

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The Antichrist: A New Biography

Philip C. Almond (University of Queensland)

This is the first full history of the Antichrist in twenty-five years. Written for the general reader, it tells of the history of the Antichrist in both Eastern and Western…

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Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England: Contemporary Texts and their Cultural Contexts

Philip C. Almond (University of Queensland)

This book is devoted to demonic possession and exorcism in early modern England, and offers modernized versions of significant texts on nine cases of demonic possession from the period 1570…

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Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England: Contemporary Texts and their Cultural Contexts

Philip C. Almond (University of Queensland)

This book is devoted to demonic possession and exorcism in early modern England, and offers modernized versions of significant texts on nine cases of demonic possession from the period 1570…

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The British Discovery of Buddhism

Philip C. Almond (University of Queensland)

This book examines the British discovery of Buddhism during the Victorian period. It was only during the nineteenth century that Buddhism became, in the western mind, a religious tradition separate…

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Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought

Philip C. Almond (University of Queensland)

Philip Almond explores the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in seventeenth-century English thought. He creates a vivid picture of the mainstream and marginal theological and…

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Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought

Philip C. Almond (University of Queensland)

Philip Almond explores the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in seventeenth-century English thought. He creates a vivid picture of the mainstream and marginal theological and…

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The British Discovery of Buddhism

Philip C. Almond (University of Queensland)

This book examines the British discovery of Buddhism during the Victorian period. It was only during the nineteenth century that Buddhism became, in the western mind, a religious tradition separate…

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Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History

Philip C. Almond (University of Queensland)

Tells the story of Mary Magdalene from its beginnings in the New Testament up to the present time. This book is the first major work on Mary Magdalene in thirty…

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