Here is a list of some of the books I’ve read. I’ve left out other kinds of media because they would make this list too long.
Abrams, Judith Z. Judaism and Disability: Portrayals in Ancient Texts from the Tanach through the Bavli. Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 1998.
Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: The Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006.
Anglo, Sydney, ed. The Damned Art: Essays in the Literature of Witchcraft. Abingdon: Routledge, 2011.
Barry, Jonathan and Owen Davies, ed. Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Blain, Jenny and Robert Wallis. Sacred Sites: Contested Rites/Rights. Eastbourne and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2007.
Bloom, Maureen. Jewish Mysticism and Magic: An Anthropological Perspective. Abingdon: Routledge, 2007.
Braidotti, Rosi. The Posthuman. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013.
Cabrita, Joel. Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Campbell, Sheila, Bert Hall, and David Klausner, eds. Health, Disease, and Healing in Medieval Culture. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
Caro Baroja, Julio. The World of the Witches. Translated by O. N. V. Glendinning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
Carr, C. Lynn. A Year in White: Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015.
Cervantes, Fernando. The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
Chajes, J. H. Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Ciraolo, Leda and Jonathan Seidel, eds. Magic and Divination in the Ancient World. Leiden: Brill, 2002.
Clement, George Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy, eds. Witchcraft Dialogues: Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001.
Clifton, Chas S. Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America. Lanham and Oxford: AltaMira Press, 2006.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mark and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds. Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.
Day, John. Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2014.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Constance Farrington. New York: Grove Press, 1968.
Fisher, Mark. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? London: Zero Books, 2009.
Frölich, Ida and Erkki Koskenniemi, eds. Evil and the Devil. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Gaster, Theodor H. The Holy and the Profane: Evolution of Jewish Folkways. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1980.
Giller, Pinchas. Kabbalah: A Guide for the Perplexed. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011.
Gillespie, Angus K. and Jay Mechling, eds. American Wildlife in Symbol and Story. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.
Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism. New York: New York University Press, 2000.
–. The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Goldish, Matt, ed. Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.
Hall, Stuart, ed. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. New York: SAGE Publications, 1997.
Hammer, Julianne and Omid Safi, eds. The Cambridge Companion to American Islam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Hand, Wayland D. Magical Medicine: The Folkloric Component of Medicine in the Belief, Culture, and Ritual of the Peoples of Europe and America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Hanegraaff, Wouter J. Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Hernández, Daisy and Bushra Rehman, eds. Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. 1st ed. New York: Seal Press, 2002.
Janowitz, Naomi. Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.
Jeffers, Ann. Magic and Divination in Ancient Palestine and Syria. Leiden: Brill, 1996.
Killen, Patricia O’Connell and Mark Silk, eds. Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2004.
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis, Milkweed Editions, 2013.
Knight, Michael Muhammad. Magic in Islam. New York: Penguin Random House, 2016.
Lesses, Rebecca Mary. Ritual Practices to Gain Power: Angels, Incantations, and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1998.
MacCormack, Patricia. The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.
Mark, Zvi. Mysticism and Madness: The Religious Thought of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. London: Continuum, 2009.
Maxwell-Stuart, P. G. Witchcraft in Europe and the New World, 1400-1800. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
McCance, Dawne. Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction. Albany: SUNY Press, 2013.
McCloud, Sean. American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Naveh, Joseph and Shaul Shaked. Magic Spells and Formulae: Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1993.
O’Donoghue, Heather. From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007.
Orlov, Andrei A. Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology. Albany: SUNY Press, 2011.
Ostling, Michael, ed. Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: “Small Gods” at the Margins of Christendom. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Owen, Davies. Grimoires: A History of Magic Books. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Page, Sophie. Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013.
Parés, Luis Nicolau and Roger Sansi, eds. Sorcery in the Black Atlantic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Plaskow, Judith and Carol P. Christ, eds. Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality. New York: HarperCollins, 1989.
Poo, Mu-chou, ed. Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
Porter, J. R. and W. M. S. Russell, eds. Animals in Folklore. Ipswich and Totowa: Rowman & Littlefield, 1978.
Prothero, Stephen. American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003.
Puar, Jasbir K. The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
Ragavan, Deena, ed. Heaven on Earth: Temples, Ritual, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Regan, Tom, ed. Animal Sacrifices: Religious Perspectives on the Use of Animals in Science. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.
Rose, Elliot. A Razor for a Goat: A Discussion of Certain Problems in the History of Witchcraft and Diabolism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.
Rosenthal, Bernice Glatzer, ed. The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Roudinesco, Elisabeth. Why Psychoanalysis? New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Roy, Arundhati. Capitalism: A Ghost Story. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014.
Saar, Ortal-Paz. Jewish Love Magic: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
Saif, Liana. The Arabic Influence on Early Modern Occult Philosophy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Schwartz, Howard. Lilith’s Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Seltzer, Robert M., ed. Religions of Antiquity. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989.
Stephens, Walter. Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Taussig, Michael T. The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Taylor, Sunaura. Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation. New York: The New Press, 2017.
Thomsen, Marie-Louise. Biblical and Pagan Societies. vol. 1 of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, edited by Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark. London: Athlone Press, 2001.
Vukosavović, Filip, ed. Angels and Demons: Jewish Magic Through the Ages. Jerusalem: Bible Lands Museum, 2010.
Wilby, Emma. Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2010.
