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Unearthly powers : a Christian's handbook on primal and folk religions / David Burnett ; foreword by Machael Griffiths.

By: Publication details: Nashville, TN : Oliver Nelson, c1992.Description: 286 p. : ill. ; pbk ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0840796129
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.2/BUR
LOC classification:
  • BR128.P75 B87 1992
Contents:
Contents : Stranger than fiction -- Unearthly powers -- Gods and demons -- The human soul -- Ghosts and ancestors -- Totem -- The pollution of man -- The power of ritual -- Divining the unknown -- Mediators between god and man -- Witchcraft -- Sorcery and black magic -- Spirit possession -- Shamanism -- Mediumship: consulting the spirits -- The mystic experience -- Folk religion -- Prophecy: the word of the Lord -- New religious movements -- Christian worldviews. Appendix: Ministering to the spirit possessed.
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Book The Emmaus Library 261 Social theology 261.2/BUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 09926

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents : Stranger than fiction -- Unearthly powers -- Gods and demons -- The human soul -- Ghosts and ancestors -- Totem -- The pollution of man -- The power of ritual -- Divining the unknown -- Mediators between god and man -- Witchcraft -- Sorcery and black magic -- Spirit possession -- Shamanism -- Mediumship: consulting the spirits -- The mystic experience -- Folk religion -- Prophecy: the word of the Lord -- New religious movements -- Christian worldviews. Appendix: Ministering to the spirit possessed.

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