Coming To The Edge Of The Circle

Author : Nikki Bado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198037252
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming to the Edge of the Circle written by Nikki Bado and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine yourself sitting on the cool damp earth, surrounded by deep night sky and fields full of fireflies, anticipating the ritual of initiation that you are about to undergo. Suddenly you hear the sounds of far-off singing and chanting, drums booming, rattles "snaking," voices raised in harmony. The casting of the Circle is complete. You are led to the edge of the Circle, where Death, your challenge, is waiting for you. With the passwords of "perfect love" and "perfect trust" you enter Death's realm. The Guardians of the four quarters purify you, and you are finally reborn into the Circle as a newly made Witch. Coming to the Edge of the Circle offers an ethnographic study of the initiation ritual practiced by one coven of Witches located in Ohio. As a High Priestess within the coven as well as a scholar of religion, Nikki Bado is in a unique position to contribute to our understanding of this ceremony and the tradition to which it belongs. Bado's analysis of this coven's initiation ceremony offers an important challenge to the commonly accepted model of "rites of passage." Rather than a single linear event, initiation is deeply embedded within a total process of becoming a Witch in practice and in community with others. Coming to the Edge of the Circle expands our concept of initiation while giving us insight into one coven's practice of Wicca. An important addition to Ritual Studies, it also introduces readers to the contemporary nature religion variously called Wicca, Witchcraft, the Old Religion, or the Craft.

Author : Nikki Bado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190290331
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming to the Edge of the Circle written by Nikki Bado and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine yourself sitting on the cool damp earth, surrounded by deep night sky and fields full of fireflies, anticipating the ritual of initiation that you are about to undergo. Suddenly you hear the sounds of far-off singing and chanting, drums booming, rattles "snaking," voices raised in harmony. The casting of the Circle is complete. You are led to the edge of the Circle, where Death, your challenge, is waiting for you. With the passwords of "perfect love" and "perfect trust" you enter Death's realm. The Guardians of the four quarters purify you, and you are finally reborn into the Circle as a newly made Witch. Coming to the Edge of the Circle offers an ethnographic study of the initiation ritual practiced by one coven of Witches located in Ohio. As a High Priestess within the coven as well as a scholar of religion, Nikki Bado is in a unique position to contribute to our understanding of this ceremony and the tradition to which it belongs. Bado's analysis of this coven's initiation ceremony offers an important challenge to the commonly accepted model of "rites of passage." Rather than a single linear event, initiation is deeply embedded within a total process of becoming a Witch in practice and in community with others. Coming to the Edge of the Circle expands our concept of initiation while giving us insight into one coven's practice of Wicca. An important addition to Ritual Studies, it also introduces readers to the contemporary nature religion variously called Wicca, Witchcraft, the Old Religion, or the Craft.

Author : Franklin K. Mathiews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming Through! written by Franklin K. Mathiews and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Delwyn McPhun
Publisher : Circle's End
ISBN 13 : 2953670106
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circle's End written by Delwyn McPhun and published by Circle's End. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crop circles: Hundreds of these strange patterns appear in our fields each year, their vast beauty inspiring awe and wonder. A sudden increase in their number throws Matt Lancing, maths student and amateur symbologist, into a world of intrigue. What is creating them? What is their message? Matt deciphers crop circles for a secret military group led by the mysterious Ember, a determined redhead with strange spiritual beliefs. Uncovering what makes the circles is just the beginning of his journey to a terrifying discovery. Warning: This well documented enigma will question your deepest illusions.

Author : Nikki Bado-Fralick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming to the Edge of the Circle written by Nikki Bado-Fralick and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385351402
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Circle written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1054 pages
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Download or read book Wide Awake Pleasure Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 12-13 include the separately paged supplement: Warlock o'Glenwarlock... By George Macdonald.

Author : Randal Files
Publisher : PublishAmerica
ISBN 13 : 9781413718553
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Close to the Edge written by Randal Files and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wendell Sanger burns for the touch of young skin and the feel of young girls. He stalks his prey with the methodical organization that he uses in his business. He feels neither shame nor remorse, and he feels no satisfaction except for that brief moment when he is gorging himself on his victim. Ernest Caldwell is the police chief of Mossberg, Arkansas. His only companions are his bottle of Jack Daniels and his deputy. The townspeople see him as a lecherous boor of a man with no morals or ability, but he does work cheap and there is little crime in Mossberg. Wendell walks so close to the edge of sanity that he passes unnoticed. Ernest walks so close to the edge of corruption that he has no credibility. The murder of Kelly Settle will change both menas lives forever as one manas obsession becomes the other manas redemption.

Author : Encyclopaedias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia Edinensis: Or, Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature written by Encyclopaedias and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: