Filtering by Genre / Topic: Anthropology in books gave 11 results.
Initiation across cultures and historical periods provides the wider context for an examination of Masonic initiation, its symbolism, purposes and place in contemporary society.
A study of initiation as a central feature of Western esotericism, encompassing Freemasonry, Hermeticism, the Golden Dawn and modern pagan traditions.
A posthumous collection of Alain Daniélou’s writings on Hindu thought, ritual and traditional culture.
George Ryley Scott explores the significant role that male sexual organs, practices, and rites have played in various traditions throughout history and into the present day.
In their groundbreaking new book, Mushrooms, Myths & Mithras, classics scholar Carl Ruck and friends reveal compelling evidence suggesting that psychedelic mushroom use was equally influential in early Europe, where it was central to initiation cerem
Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.
