Ritual and Deference: Extending Chinese Philosophy in a Comparative Context
Addresses an important methodological issue in contemporary Asian and comparative thought by surveying, drawing on, and adding to recent scholarship. Moreover, he has taken the next step by enthusiastically implementing concrete projects relating to Chinese wisdom for the benefit of contemporary life throughout the globe. It is rare to read an academic work that can elicit joyous laughter in response to the author's sage yet delightfully presented thoughts.
Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction
This study explores the vestiges of primitive sacrificial rituals that emerge in a group of canonical modernist novels, including The Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, The Good Soldier, The Great Gatsby, and To the Lighthouse. It argues that these novels reenact a process that achieved its seminal expression in the Genesis story of "The Binding of Isaac," in which Abraham, having been prevented from sacrificing Isaac, offers up a ram in his place.
An Introduction to Ritual MagicIn short, in this unique collaboration of two magical practitioners and teachers we are presented with a valuable and up-to-date text on the practice of magic "as it is". That is to say, as a practical, spiritual, and psychic discipline, far from the lurid superstition and speculation that are the hallmark of its treatment in sensational journalism.
