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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025Let the dead speak
Spiritualism in Australia
by Andrew Singleton, Matt Tomlinson
This book explores the historical and social dynamics of Spiritualism - a religious movement associated in the popular imagination with nineteenth-century parlour séances and ghost photography. It continues to be practised actively today in Australia, the UK, and USA. The authors draw on their deep fieldwork, interviews, and archival research to analyse Spiritualism's resilience and the enduring popular appeal of mediumship. There are three key contributions of the book: the first is that the scholarly study of "belief" should be rehabilitated. The authors propose a model of belief as a dialogue between claims to truth and commitments to institutions supporting those claims. The second is women's agency in Spiritualism. From the movement's beginnings, strong female leaders have decisively shaped its religious and political profile. The third is the need to analyse Australian Spiritualism as a distinct variant of a transnational Anglophone family of ritual practice.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022Voices from the underworld
by Fabian Graham, Yangwen Zheng, Richard Madsen
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan
The cult of the Two Grand Elders
by Fabian Graham
In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy drawn from the Buddhist, Taoist and vernacular pantheons. Under the watchful eye of Hell's 'enforcers', the lower echelons of demon soldiers impose post-mortal punishments on the souls of the recently deceased for moral transgressions committed during their prior incarnations. Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan offers an ethnography of contemporary Chinese Underworld traditions, where night-time cemetery rituals assist the souls of the dead, exorcised spirits are imprisoned in Guinness bottles, and malicious foetus ghosts are enlisted to strengthen a temple's spirit army. Understanding the religious divergences between Singapore and Malaysia (and their counterparts in Taiwan) through an analysis of socio-political and historical events, Fabian Graham challenges common assumptions about the nature and scope of Chinese vernacular religious beliefs and practices. Graham's innovative approach to alterity allows the reader to listen to first-person dialogues between the author and channelled Underworld deities. Through its alternative methodological and narrative stance, the book intervenes in debates on the interrelation between sociocultural and spiritual worlds, and promotes the destigmatisation of spirit possession and discarnate phenomena in the future study of mystical and religious traditions.
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Fortune-telling & divinationMagic Portal
by Lisa Morello
MAGIC PORTAL Opening Your Multidimensional Portal by Lisa Morello Artwork by Lisa Morello Product Details 36 cards + 82-page guidebook+ mini kit with candle and incense Guide book size: 100 x 145 mm Card size: 85 x 130 mm ISBN: 9788897551850 Imprint: Edizioni LAlbero All our oracles are designed and printed in Italy using only 100% ecofriendly material and non toxic inks and varnishes. Lisa Morello is a Medium, Psychic and Animal Communicator. Since childhood, she carries with her a strong sensitivity and Faith that Worlds beyond the visible exist and that Unseen Allies walk alongside us. She works and studies in the field of mediumship, shamanism-especially Celtic and Norse-and especially with Art as a medium of mediumistic expression. These cards come by Divine will and through a team effort in which allied spirits and embodied beings who were able to follow their feeling and intuition participated.
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SpiritualismA Layman's Guide to the Spirit World
by Winslow Nicholas
A Layman's Guide to the Spirit World is designed to give the reader a true insight into the afterlife and the spiritual realms in simple layman's terms, which makes this book far more interesting and easy to follow. The book is concise and compact, as it will enlighten the reader with all the relevant facts without the baffling esoteric phrases that you find in other books in this category.
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Combat / defence skills & manualsAugust 2014Wing Chun Seize & Control
by Guy Edwards
A world first exclusive devoted entirely to Kum Na-Sieze & Control aspects of the art is a must for all practitioners interested in furthering their skills. During this book you will learn the important phases of how Wing Chun creates a myriad of joint busts, locks & traps from a broken link to adhesion of the limbs. The grappling applications of the system are highly unique in character as they use the key principles familiar with Wing Chun to control the opponent's movements. An informative read that demonstrates clearly the devastating actions which are mainly secluded from the teachings found in most Wing Chun syllabus of the mainstream.
