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World Religion


General

The New Believers: A Survey of Sects, Cults and Alternative Religions/David V. Barrett (Cassell & Co, London, UK), 2001.

The World's Religions/Ninian Smart (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK), Second edition, 1998. Also, Atlas of the World's Religions, (Oxford University Press),1999.

The Atlas of Holy Places & Sacred Sites/Colin Wilson (DK Publishing, New York, NY, USA), 1996.

An Anthology of Sacred Texts By and About Women/Serinity Young, ed. (The Crossroad Publishing Co., New York, NY, USA), 1995.

The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions/Huston Smith (Harper Collins, New York, NY, USA), 1991.

Classic Ancient Mythology/Richard Patrick and Peter Croft (Galley Press, London, England), 1987.

Eerdmans' Handbook to the World's Religions (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI 49503 USA), 1982.

When God Was a Woman/Merlin Stone (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, New York and London), 1976.

Philosophical and Devotional

Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation/Stephen Mitchell (Harmony Books, New York, NY, USA), 2000. [Also, Bhagavad Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War/Barbara Stoler Miller (Bantam Books, New York, NY, USA), 1986.]

The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice/Georg Feuerstein (Hohm Press, Prescott, AZ 86302 USA), 1998.

Where Are You Going? A Guide to the Spiritual Journey/Swami Muktananda (SYDA Foundation, S. Fallsburg, NY 12779 USA), 1994.

Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras/Diana L. Eck (Beacon Press, Boston, MA 02108 USA), 1993.

Tao Te Ching: A New English Version with Foreword & Notes/Stephen Mitchell (Harper & Row, New York, NY, USA), 1988.

Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition/David Kinsley (University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, USA), 1986.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind/Shunryu Suzuki (Weatherhill, New York & Tokyo), paperback edition, 1982.

Love Song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva's Gitagovinda/Barbara Stoler Miller, ed. & trans. (Columbia University Press, New York, NY, USA), 1977.

Vitalizing

The Okinawa Program: How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health--And How You Can Too/Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D. & Makoto Suzuki, M.D. (Clarkson Potter/Publishers, New York, NY USA), 2001 [Tai Chi and nutrition].

Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory/Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D. with Cameron Stauth (Warner Books, New York, NY 10020 USA), 1997 [yogic mind-body exercises].

The Complete System of Self-Healing: Internal Exercises/Dr. Stephen T. Chang (Tao Publishing, San Francisco, CA), 1986. [theory and practice of the Tao of Revitalization]

Dance Meditation: Essays/Dianne McPherson, www.dancemeditation.org [vitalizing practice drawn from yogic, Sufi and western sources].


Also of interest...

Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals/Huston Smith (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York, NY 10014 USA), 2000.

Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness/William Irwin Thompson (St. Martin's Press, New York, NY 10010), 1996.

Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief/Herbert Benson, MD with Marg Stark (Scribner, New York, NY 10020 USA), 1996.

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