Underworld Work
A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans. When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orleans, she encountered a religious underworld, a beautiful anarchy of spiritual life. In Underworld Work, Ahmad Greene-Hayes follows Hurston on a journey through the rich tapestry of Black religious expression from emancipation through Jim Crow. He looks within and beyond the church to recover the diverse leadership of migrants, healers, dissidents, and queer people who transformed their marginalized homes, bars, and street corners into sacred space. Greene-Hayes shows how, while enclosed within an anti-black world, these outcasts embraced Africana esotericisms--ancestral veneration, faith healing, spiritualized sex work, and more--to conjure a connection to freer worlds past and yet to come. In recovering these spiritual innovations, Underworld Work celebrates the resilience and creativity of Africana religions.
A Gāndhārī Abhidharma Text
Winner of the 2025 Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism, sponsored by the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, BerkeleyEarly Buddhist manuscript recording a previously unknown scholastic text about existence This volume offers a transcription, edition, translation, and analysis of a previously unknown scholastic text, an important discovery for scholars of early Indian Buddhist doctrine. British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragment 28, from the first or second century CE and written in the Gāndhārī language and Kharoṣṭhī script, provides critical insight into the early development of Buddhist thought, particularly concerning the existence of past, present, and future factors. The text critiques Sarvāstivāda arguments that "everything exists," while referring to a range of positions on the dynamics of causality.The work's deeply researched chapters introduce the text and explore its historical and doctrinal contexts, situating it among other early Buddhist writings. A complete commentary accompanies the translation, along with a transcription, edition, and detailed notes on the linguistic features of the text. High-resolution images of the manuscript and an index linking Gāndhārī, Sanskrit, and Pali terms further enhance the volume's academic value.A Gāndhārī Abhidharma Text significantly advances the study of early Indian Buddhist scholasticism, transforming our understanding of foundational doctrinal debates. Ideal for specialists in Buddhism, early Indian religions, and manuscript studies, it brings groundbreaking perspectives to the discourse on Buddhist scholastic practice and doctrine.
God Is Not Santa
Does your prayer life...uh...suck?===Award-winning author Aaron Ryan brings you "God Is Not Santa" a beautiful portrait of God's love for us as contrasted to that of, hmm, another certain gift giver. Too often we can get all caught up in our Wish Lists and our wants and needs, deeply desiring the gifts more than The Giver, who gave us the greatest gift of all: His Son Jesus Christ. Part straightforward and part satirical, but never preachy, Ryan dives deep into what it takes to approach God with no conditions and no demands! After all, God is not Santa Claus!===Develop a better prayer life, a stronger prayer life, and one you can enjoy. Among the Christian books on prayer life available today, this one is a standout to draw you closer to God and help you appreciate both what God is, and what He is not. Enjoy your prayer life with this amazing and insightful book on approaching God properly.
Underworld Work
A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans. When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orleans, she encountered a religious underworld, a beautiful anarchy of spiritual life. In Underworld Work, Ahmad Greene-Hayes follows Hurston on a journey through the rich tapestry of Black religious expression from emancipation through Jim Crow. He looks within and beyond the church to recover the diverse leadership of migrants, healers, dissidents, and queer people who transformed their marginalized homes, bars, and street corners into sacred space. Greene-Hayes shows how, while enclosed within an anti-black world, these outcasts embraced Africana esotericisms--ancestral veneration, faith healing, spiritualized sex work, and more--to conjure a connection to freer worlds past and yet to come. In recovering these spiritual innovations, Underworld Work celebrates the resilience and creativity of Africana religions.
Zen at the End of Religion
Zen as the ideal path for those who have left institutional religion behindIn this liminal moment, when the grip of our old religions has loosened, a prominent Zen practitioner asks: What is religion? What is spirituality? And what is it all about?Ford begins by invoking the ideas of Aldous Huxley, welcoming what he calls a "naturalistic perennialism." Ford believes there are currents of religion that are rooted in our biology. And as something natural, it is something that people can find within all religions, in fact, the heart birthing of all religions.Then, true to the book's title of the book, Ford asks and answers, "Why then, Zen?" and demonstrates how pure Zen is as simple as noticing and waking: an expression of an intimate way of life.Four noble truths, ox herding pictures, samadhi, koan, lovingkindness, and many other Zen essentials are here, in succinct and conversational prose that offers a lifeboat to anyone who feels something missing in the absence of religious life.
The New Holy Scripture for the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ a foretaste
Concerning Spirituals Volume 2
In this book, Stephen Kaung addresses these matters and many spiritual principles from God's Word. His spoken ministry on the themes of Spiritual Authority, Spiritual House, and Spiritual Submission, given at the Northeast Christian Weekend Conferences, is compiled here in the second volume of Concerning Spirituals.
A Soul Journey
A SOUL JOURNEYCaptured in moments Without the interference of the universe, I would have submitted to the ego mind for the length of my days. I wouldn't have been able to expand my luscious soul, its wealth, and its potential. I had been gazing through life for almost five decades, and the moment the universe knocked on my inner door, I was substantially awakened, step by step, in my truth. Without you, oh almighty universe, I was still sleepwalking in the misty veils of the mind. Without even a clue that I had a soul, I have grown in my prospectus, my prophecy of being, and my paranormality revealed itself like a tsunami. But most of all, I learned to be okay with myself, with my human dualistic sides, and I managed to love myself. I became one with myself by embracing my uniqueness and wholeness, being authentically and essentially myself. Not only was my initiation a fact, but I have grown in my understanding of my higher soul self. An epiphany. By all means, I have finally discovered the magical world of wonders of the universe, and I realize I am far more a universal being than a human being after all. MY HAPPY SOUL MY HAPPY SOUL PUBLISHERSwww.myhappysoulpublishers.com
Nationalism and Internationalism in the Young Ecumenical Movement, 1895-1920s
This book explores how and why global Protestant movements have been foundational for studies of internationalism. During the early twentieth century, hopes for the peaceful coexistence of nations animated emerging international Protestant cooperation. Despite national hostilities including world war, commitment to global Christian fellowship became an urgent public agenda. In this volume, essays by European, Asian, and North American scholars locate the essence of the "young ecumenical movement" in the dynamic tension between nationalism and internationalism during the early twentieth century. Political crises, crushing disappointments, and imperialist ambitions notwithstanding, transnational Protestant leaders, networks, and movements envisioned Christianity as a contemporary multi-cultural, worldwide community.
