...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...such separation of religious and secular life, and also wield considerable political clout. At the time of writing these words, military conflicts bas... ... on how the regulations of Islam should be implemented in daily social and political life. These religious conflicts have fairly firm foundations. For... ...ntury AD onwards. Today Buddhism is a minority religion in India, although north and eastwards throughout all of Asia it has become the dominant relig... ...ily, when I lost footing as I was fording the Mekong River, near Rakshi in Northern Tibet. When I reached the shore, in a few minutes my clothes froze... ... the years 1896-1914, the physician at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota where many members of the Oglala division of the Lakota Sioux lived.... ...to captives taken from tribes outside the League in ever proliferating war parties often undertaken, at least ostensibly, to console and avenge the ho... ...slept be- neath a bush. Here the group of totemic ancestors split into two parties and meet up again at a waterhole where several days of ceremonies a...

...ildren we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...