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The State & Religion in Mughal India
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. L. Roy Choudhury
Calcutta: Indian Publicity Society, 1951.This copy from the collection of the controversial Tattersalls heir, Prof. V.J.A. Flynn.
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Gathered Leaves
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartElfrida Hill
Melbourne: The Australian Baptist Foreign Mission, 1934.Gleanings from an Adelaide born Baptist’s missionary work in India. This copy signed by Hill, and with some related clippings laid in.
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Secret Drugs of Buddhism: Psychedelic Sacraments and the Origins of the Vajrayana
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMike Crowley
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2019.“Secret Drugs of Buddhism is the first book to explore the historical evidence for the use of entheogenic plants within the Buddhist tradition. Drawing on scriptural sources, botany, pharmacology, and religious iconography, this book calls attention to the central role which psychedelics played in Indian religions. It traces their history from the mysterious soma potion, celebrated in the most ancient Hindu scriptures, to amrita, the sacramental drink of Vajrayana Buddhism. Although amrita used in modern Vajrayana ceremonies lacks any psychoactivity, there is copious evidence that the amrita used by the earliest Vajrayana practitioners was a potent entheogen. It is the nature of this psychedelic form of the sacrament which is the central topic of this book. In particular, Secret Drugs of Buddhism attempts to identify the specific ingredients employed in amrita’s earliest formulations. To this end, the book presents evidence from many countries in which the Vajrayana movement flourished. These include Bhutan, Japan, Mongolia, and Tibet but special attention is given to India, the land of its origin.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Production of Entheogenic Communities in the United States
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrad Stoddard
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.Cambridge Elements: New Religious Movements. “The rise of entheogenic religion – that is, religions that involve the use of psychoactive drugs – has captured the attention of scholars and journalists. These studies tend to advance the interests of practitioners who advocate for the legitimacy of entheogens and of entheogenic religion more broadly. This Element breaks with these approaches as it offers a historical and critical analysis of entheogenic communities. It examines the production of entheogenic groups in the United States and considers the historical factors that have contributed to the rise in psychedelics more broadly. It also explores legal considerations and the impact of the law as a curator of entheogenic communities. This Element recognizes that these communities – like all imagined communities – are culturally conditioned, socially constructed, and historically contingent. By exploring these contingencies, we learn more about the broader sociocultural, historical, and economic frameworks that underlie the burgeoning association of psychoactive substances and religion.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Sermons, by John Pitcairn, Minister of the Relief Congregation, Kelso
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Pitcairn
Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Co., 1829.Sermons from the gifted preacher of the Scottish Presbytery of Relief published shortly after his death. Unrecorded in UK libraries, only 2 copies in OCLC, both in the United States.
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Religion, Altered States of Consciousness and Social Change
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErika Bourguignon
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1973.This copy with the stamps of Japanese anthropologists Takie and William Lebra, and the bookplate of tribal arts dealer Philip Goldman.
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Candomble
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJose Medeiros
Rio de Janeiro: Edicoes o Cruzeiro, 1957.Photobook on the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomble, providing an intimate visual record of ritual and ceremony.
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The Auncient Ecclesiastical Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares After Christ, Written in the Greeke tongue by three learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius.
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMeredith Hanmer
London: Richard Field, 1619.Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Caesarea in Palaestina wrote 10. bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople wrote 7. bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch wrote 6. bookes. Whereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues and ends of the Prophets, Apostles, and 70. Disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer Doctor of Diuinitie. Last of all, herein is contained a briefe chronographie collected by the said translator, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories.
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The Book of Martyrs: Containing an Account of the Sufferings & Death of the Protestants in the Reign of Queen Mary the First.
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Fox [John Foxe]; M. Madan [Martin Madan]
London: H. Trapp, 1776.18th-century folio edition of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, here edited by the English barrister and clergyman Martin Madan, better known for his 1780 work advocating polygamy, Thelyphthora, or A Treatise on Female Ruin. This copy with 30 plates, as called for, however some of the plates bound in a different order and the plate of The Burning of Rose Allin replaced with the plate of The Body and Bones of Wickliff Taken Up and Burned from the separately issued The Lives of the Primitive Martyrs.
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Obscure Religious Cults
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartShashibhusan Das Gupta
Calcutta: Kirma KLM Private, 1976. -
Yoruba Religious Carving: Pagan & Christian Sculpture in Nigeria & Dahomey
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKevin Carroll
London, Dublin and Melbourne: Geoffrey Chapman, 1967. -
The Wit and Wisdom of the Christian Fathers of Egypt
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest A. Wallis Budge
London: Oxford University Press, 1934.The Syrian Version of the Apophthegmata Patrum by Anan Isho of Beth ‘Abhe translated by Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge.
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Krishna: The Divine Lover: Myth and Legend through Indian Art
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEnrico Isacco
Boston: David R. Godine, 1982. -
The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Beer
London: Serindia Publications, No date. -
Essays on the Languages, Literature and Religion of Nepal and Tibet
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartB. H. Hodgson
Varanasi: Bharat-Bharati, 1971.Together with further papers on the geography, ethnology and commerce of those countries. Reprint of the 1874 London Edition.
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La Prima Missione Cattolica Nel Tibet
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGiuseppe M. Toscano
Parma: Istituto Missioni Estere, 1951.The First Catholic Mission in Tibet.
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Early Temples of Central Tibet
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRoberto Vitali
London: Serindia Publications, 1990. -
Records of Tho.ling: A Literary and Visual Reconstruction of the Mother Monastery in Gu.ge
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRoberto Vitali
Dharamsala: High Asia, 1999. -
Tibetan Pilgrimage
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert B. Ekvall; James F. Downs
Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Language and Cultures of Asia & Africa, 1987.With an appreciation by James F. Downs and Shigeru Iijima.
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Portraits of the Masters: Bronze Sculptures of the Tibetan Buddhist Lineages
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDonald Dinwiddie
Chicago and London: Serindia Publications and Oliver Hoare, 2003.