Holy Waters: Searching for the sacred in a glass 9781786786579, 9781786786562, 1786786575

Waters of life. Distilled spirits of all kinds have borne that name, in various tongues, since time immemorial. Aqua vit

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Holy Waters: Searching for the sacred in a glass
9781786786579, 9781786786562, 1786786575

Tom Morton, keen motorcyclist, funeral celebrant and whisky aficionado, takes us on a journey around the globe, explorin

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"The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation."—Library Journal"Harvell seems t

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Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this

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Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and b

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Recent studies on the meaning of cultural diplomacy in the twentieth century often focus on the United States and the Co

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Unique in its breadth, this is the first study of new religious movements to address the main points of controversy with

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When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New

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Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is oft

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