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step-by-step instructions for group leaders

Western Marxism: How It Was Born

showing the consistent pattern of anti-Semitism in Western societies

The Sacred and the Sinister Cache Owens and interesting people -- thoseInspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval religion and magic so difficult to differentiate. The essays in this collection investigate how the holy and unholy were distinguished in medieval Europe, where their characteristics diverged, and the implications of that deviation. In the Middle Ages, the natural world was understood as divinely created and