The Queen Of Heaven S Daughter

What does it take to wake a sleeping demon? A couple of college kids, a lot of angst, and a bit of karma. Joanie pays her tuition bills with her body. It helps that she's talented and loves the work. She manages to keep her work separate from her private life until she meets Clayton. At first glance, he's a typical college john, but he's magic in bed. The last thing she needs, though, is to fall for a client. It doesn't help that Joanie is also entranced by the lovely Cleo, an initiate of Inanna. Clayton excels in his engineering classes, but he yearns for love. When he meets Joanie, he can't believe his luck. But he has a hard time wrapping his head around her job and her other loves. What none of them knows is that Clayton's anguished loneliness has awakened Puabi-Ekur, a gender-bending demon whose past life is intricately linked to Joanie's. As a succubus/incubus, Puabi-Ekur takes matters into their own hands to push Clayton and Joanie together. But balance must be maintained in the order of all things, and Puabi-Ekur is not the only supernatural force to come to the party. Powerful djinn and magics collide in this sexy urban fantasy set in Seattle.

Alexandria being the heir presumptive was taken to court by her father. Elizabeth the wife of the King resented both of them. She made a frame up to eliminate them. By a quirk of fate Alexandria was saved. Interwoven in this epic a sorcerer a culprit in Elizabeths frame up, raised an evil Doom. Alexandria was charged to save the world by a heavenly spirit. The evil associated with Elizabeth was strong and almost impossible to defeat. Will Alexandria fight and bring peace and order?

Straightforward answers about Roman Catholicism for a Protestant audience The Roman Catholic faith is one of the world's most widespread religious traditions, yet the unique aspects of Roman Catholicism elicit perennial questions from adherents and outsiders alike. Such questions tend to fall into three major categories: historical backgrounds, theological matters, and personal relationships. Using Catholic Church documents and the writings of Catholic scholars, Baptist systematic theologian Gregg R. Allison distills the teachings of Catholicism around forty common questions about Catholic foundations, beliefs, and practices. The accessible question-and-answer format guides readers to the areas of interest, including: Where do Roman Catholic and Protestant beliefs differ? What happens during a Roman Catholic Mass? How does Roman Catholicism understand the biblical teaching about Mary? Who are the saints and what is their role? How can my Roman Catholic loved ones and I talk about the gospel? 40 Questions About Roman Catholicism explores theology and practice, doctrine and liturgy, sacraments and Mariology, contributions and scandals, and many other things, clarifying both real and perceived differences and similarities with other Christian traditions.

A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea Eliade

The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

The fifth issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (J-RaT) centers on the topic of religion, transformation and sex/gender. The focal point will be on religious and cultural transformation processes and their repercussions on gender roles, constructs and representations on the one hand, and on sex and/or gender transformations which are embedded in the context of specific religious traditions on the other. Transformation is understood here as change, alteration and reformatting. The multifaceted connections between religion, transformation and sex/gender are concretized in an abundance of material and symbolic phenomena and are examined starting from different subject-specific and methodical approaches.