A collection that challenges the binary conception of conservative religion versus progressive secularism by highlighting the existence of multiple secularisms.

The result of a collaborative, multiyear project, this groundbreaking book explores the interpretive worlds that inform religious practice and derive from sensory phenomena. Under the rubric of "making sense," the studies assembled here ask, How have people used and valued sensory data? How have they shaped their material and immaterial worlds to encourage or discourage certain kinds or patterns of sensory experience? How have they framed the sensual capacities of images and objects to license a range of behaviors, including iconoclasm, censorship, and accusations of blasphemy or sacrilege? Exposing the dematerialization of religion embedded in secularization theory, editor Sally Promey proposes a fundamental reorientation in understanding the personal, social, political, and cultural work accomplished in religion’s sensory and material practice. Sensational Religion refocuses scholarly attention on the robust material entanglements often discounted by modernity’s metaphysic and on their inextricable connections to human bodies, behaviors, affects, and beliefs.

Beyond the Threshold is the first book to seriously consider the interplay between traditional world religions and metaphysical experiences in exploring the timeless question of what happens when we die. Christopher M. Moreman examines and compares the beliefs and practices of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, as well as psychic phenomena such as mediums and near-death experiences. While ultimately the afterlife remains unknowable, Moreman's unique, in-depth exploration of both beliefs and experiences can help readers reach their own understanding of the afterlife and how to live.

HPB's first major work, originally published in 1877. The most astounding compendium of occult facts and theories in Theosophical literature. It proclaims the existence of mystery schools under the guardianship of men who are servants for truth. It outlines a movement by the Guardians of the Ancient Wisdom to preserve and protect the ageless truths, until in later times they would again become known for the spiritual benefit of all.

What you will read in Spectral Evidence Volume I are marvels, literally psychic wonders of the world that may surpass belief-but they are true, documented and witnessed by individuals of unimpeachable character. These are some of the greatest mediums from the astounding records of Historic Spiritualism compiled by historian N. Riley Heagerty over many years. From famous lawyers, doctors and every walk of life and intellect, these are the eye-witness documents that for the most part have been swept under the carpet of prejudice and denial but now have been resurrected so that humanity can know, once and for all, the glorious beauty and drama of what true mediumship produced within the heyday of Spiritualism. If you believe in the written word, this is positive proof of life after death and communication by spirits. Fasten your psychic safety-belt.