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The Pagan Book of Days: A Guide to the Festivals, Traditions, and Sacred Days of the Year

15 reviews
Nigel Pennick

Destiny Books, 2001

Wonderful Monthly Information
This book is chuck full of information for each month and encompasses many different Pagan cultures. A wonderful resource for the curious, newsletters, calendars, event planning and for teaching/lectures. I highly recommend this book for personal and group libraries.

The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over

25 reviews
Starhawk, M. Macha Nightmare

HarperOne, 1997

For the Serious Pagan Clergy!
With all we do as Pagan Clergy, we tend to forget we have a responsibility to help in the transition process. This book gives us means and ways of being True Clergy in a tough time for those we work with as well as ourselves. I highly recommend this book. Tough subject matter? Yes it is. Want to be taken as a serious clergy member as other groups are? Then read this book and do the work. ...

Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices

216 reviews
Frank Viola, George Barna

BarnaBooks, 2008

History, not Criticism
This book is essentially an abbreviated history of where all of the common practices (outside of Christmas and Easter) of the Protestant church came from. I felt that the author made every effort to present the facts as cleanly as possible. That said, you probably noticed that many reviewers are very critical of the author's "opinions", but I got the impression that he was very up front about ...

The Pagan Stone: The Sign of Seven Trilogy
Nora Roberts

Jove, 2008

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Blood Brothers and The Hollow ?the conclusion to the electrifying trilogy of three men and three women who join forces?and hearts?to battle the ultimate evil.

A Book of Pagan Prayer

16 reviews
Ceisiwr Serith

Weiser Books, 2002

A Book of Pagan Prayer
This book is written in detail and in a format that is very reader friendly. It covers a broad range of Prayers in addition to giving rationale and insight into the whos, hows, whys, and whats of the prayer process. This book could absolutely fit into any religion.

Pagan Spirituality: A Guide to Personal Transformation

8 reviews
River Higginbotham, Joyce Higginbotham

Llewellyn Publications, 2006

Great Work Book.
Did you know that there are different levels of spiritual development? I didn't until I read this book. The initial chapters of this book explore the theories of Ken Wilber, a spirituality psychologist. His ideas are related to Pagan spiritual development in a way that the non-scientist can understand. The authors explain how a person progresses from infant to young adult and beyond the young ...

The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light

59 reviews
Tom Harpur

Walker & Company, 2005

Review - The Pagan Christ
Recently the CBC in Canada aired a program which examined the views put forward by Theologian Tom Harpur in his bestselling book - The Pagan Christ. Harpur's book challenged the literalist view of Christianity and it is not the first time this position has been brought to light. The mythological figure of the dead and resurrected god-man have long been exposed as universal myth motif that has ...

On Being a Pagan

7 reviews
Alain de Benoist

Ultra, 2005

Pleased
As one used to Julian and Sallust, I always searched for a pagan philosopher who could take the thought of the ancient world into the modern, and joust with the predominant Judeo-Christian gestalt. Benoist is the man for this. His arguments in favor of a pagan world view are a welcome antidote, and have a high seriousness sadly missing elsewhere. As an instructor of Classical thought, I was ...

Pagan Christmas: The Plants, Spirits, and Rituals at the Origins of Yuletide

8 reviews
Christian Rätsch, Claudia Müller-Ebeling

Inner Traditions, 2006

Mystical and Academic Book
First, this book is written by two German anthropologists and was only recently translated into English. The research is very thorough and objective. I'm sure someone would argue with this assertation, but I don't think I'd want dispute anthropologists who study ethnobotany and art history as well. They are more qualified than I am. Second, the book is not really a how-to book as far as ...

Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel

44 reviews
Kate Horsley

Shambhala, 2002

A Profound Tale
What can I say? I am in tears at what I have just finished reading. From the first time I saw its cover, I was captured by its beauty. I wondered if the tale was true. I bought it a few days ago, and I hate that like all books, it had to end. A few nights ago, it was in the early hours of the morn when I began to read the first pages in lavender scented water. I read by candelight, in the ...

Book of Pagan Rituals

9 reviews
Herman Slater

Weiser Books, 1978

One of better books out there
If you already have a good grounding you can fill in the gaps yourself and customize the rites, but I think that few books are better than this one. As for earler review i am sure things have changed with the times, but some of books are just coming out are rehashing of same things that was written before and by far not complete, when i came to craft in 1991 ,not many books was out and i have ...

The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity?

13 reviews
Tom Harpur

Walker & Company, 2006

Dared to ask for evidence
Tom Harpur has dared to ask the question most scholars avoid: What is the evidence for a historical Jesus? His answer is that there is none...nada...nothing and he backs it up with superb scholarship citing the writings of Dr. Alvin Boyd Kuhn (surely one of the great scholars of our day)and Gerald Massey (surely one of the most overlooked scholars of his day and ours). Harpur is one of a growing ...

The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction: 13 Prize Winning Tales

1 review
Llewellyn

Llewellyn Publications, 2008

A must read for every pagan and anyone who loves unusual short stories
This book is a fabulous collection of imaginative work, and each story is completely different from the others. (And I'm not just saying that because I have a story in there!) Who knew there was so much talent out there just waiting for someone to FINALLY publish a pagan anthology! I hope everyone will buy this one, so they'll publish many, many more! run, don't walk, to get this book. Or type ...

Pagan Prayer Beads: Magic and Meditation with Pagan Rosaries

10 reviews
John Michael Greer, Clare Vaughn

Weiser Books, 2007

Pagan Prayer Beads Rock!
This book is basic, to the point, and very informative. It is filled with personal insights and examples which give energy to the subject. The book presents a a brief history of malas or prayer strands and then techniques for making them as well as magical elements to consider when designing them. It also gives patterns for meditation/prayer strands which the author and associates have designed ...

Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions

13 reviews
Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson

Syracuse University Press, 1988

The Mysterious Spirit of my Hearth Inheritance
This book is mainly concerned with the format and content of pre-Christian Scandinavian religion, using Celtic and Germanic equivalents as a means of reference, support and comparison. I first became aware of Scandinavian culture during my schooldays in North-East British Northumberland, and the lessons were mainly concerned with depicting the savagery of the Viking raiders, the terrible ...

The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween: Celebrating the Dark Half of the Year

9 reviews
Jean Markale

Inner Traditions, 2001

From the viewpoint of an Historian, a Poet and a Philosopher
Jean Markale is described as a poet, philosopher, historian and storyteller. His field of specialty is pre-Christian and medieval culture and spirituality. He is a very well known French author of over 40 books and is a specialist in Celtic studies at Sorbonne University in Paris. It is not surprising then that Mr. Markale has written a most profound study of the Celtic celebration of ...

The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?

205 reviews
Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy

Three Rivers Press, 2001

A Must Read - A Must Have
I came across this book during my study of the Quran, in Chapter 9 verse 30, where it is mentioned that `The Jews say, "Ezra is the son of God and the Christians say, "The Messiah is the son of god." Such are the baseless things they utter with their tongues, following in the footsteps of the former unbelievers.' This led to my research on the `former' prevailing religion at the time which was ...

A Brief History of the Vikings: The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans? (Brief History Series)

5 reviews
Jonathan Clements

Running Press, 2005

Fresh Ideas
The author's conversational style and sense of humor make this book easy and enjoyable to read. Adding recent DNA evidence cements up areas concerning which peoples settled the various parts of Britain and the world. Viking history has been told in many books, yet this one adds new slants to old history. In concluding, the author reminds us that we might respond as lawlessly as the "barbarian" ...

Pagans and Christians

11 reviews
Robin Lane Fox

Harpercollins, 1988

Build up to a revolution
In the autumn of 312CE a revolution took place. It was a relatively violent one that had an improbable beginning. The classical world was turned upside down. The old gods were banished. The temples destroyed and ancient festivals and rituals were forgotten or appropriated in a new guise. The revolution extended over the whole of Europe and much of Turkey and Egypt over a period of some two ...

Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees

23 reviews
Blaise Pascal

Ignatius Press, 1993

A pleasure to read
Mr. Kreeft does it again in this book about Pascal's 'Pensses'. He picks up Pascal's best or most important 'pensees' and gives us his view of them. He does not intend to explain or interpret them, since they are to be interpreted individually by each of us, but he expands them, he adds to them what a modern reader -living in a neo-pagan world- would have come to his mind. Mr. Kreeft is a ...

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