During the Late Bronze Age circa 2000 BC, they created an empire, the Hittite New Kingdom, which reached its height in the 14th century BC, controlling much of Asia Minor.

The shells of abalone are occasionally used in New Age smudging ceremonies to catch falling ash.

* The New Age movement commonly purports animism in the form of the existence of nature spirits.

* Lindsey Hughes, Russia in the Age of Peter the Great ( New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998 ).

The Acts of the Apostles (, Práxeis tōn Apostólōn ; ), usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament ; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age.

Astrology saw a popular revival from the nineteenth century as part of a general revival of spiritualism and later New Age philosophy, and through the influence of mass media such as newspaper horoscopes and astrology software.

To meet the Power Age, Citi Field was built in New York to favor teams built on pitching, defense, and speed.

In the 1970s Clannad made their mark initially in the folk and traditional scene, and then subsequently went on to bridge the gap between traditional Celtic and pop music in the 1980s and 1990s, incorporating elements from New Age, smooth jazz, and folk rock.

New Age practices often associate each chakra with a certain colour.

Some also denounce non-Christian religions such as Islam, Wicca, Paganism, New Age groups, Buddhism, Hinduism, and other polytheistic religions.

* LeBar, James J. Cults, Sects, and the New Age, Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, 1989.

Another Gospel: Cults, Alternative Religions and the New Age Movement, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2004.

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Additionally, the majority of commercial didgeridoo recordings available are distributed by multinational recording companies and feature non-Aboriginals playing a New Age style of music with liner notes promoting the instrument's spirituality which misleads consumers about the didgeridoo's secular role in traditional Aboriginal culture.

The Taboo belief is particularly strong among many Indigenous groups in the South East of Australia, where it is forbidden and considered " cultural theft " for non-Indigenous women, and especially performers of New Age music regardless of gender, to play or even touch a didgeridoo.

The company's second title, New Comics # 1 ( cover date December 1934 ), appeared in a size close to what would become comic books ' standard during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books, with slightly larger dimensions than today's.

The album won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album for 2007, Enya's fourth.

She does not classify her music as belonging to the New Age genre.

* Grammy Awards of 1993, Best New Age Album for Shepherd Moons

* Grammy Awards of 1997, Best New Age Album for The Memory of Trees

* Grammy Awards of 2002, Best New Age Album for A Day Without Rain

* Grammy Awards of 2007, Best New Age Album for Amarantine

According to the Order of the Nazoreans Essenes, there are seven types of modern essenes: the Nazorean Essenes of the Order of O: N: E :, the Dead Sea Scroll Essenes, the Scholar Essenes, the New Age Essenes, the Szekely Essenes, the Rastafari Essenes and the Hippy Essenes.

Theosophy is also considered a major influence on the many less institutionally organized varieties of esotericism in metaphysical milieus, " Ascended Master Activities ", and within the New Age.

Her final public appearance was at an after-party at the Sardi's restaurant in New York City, following the premiere of the documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There.

In 1908, the New York Curb Market Agency was established, to codify trading practices.

Christian attitudes to Judaism and to the Jewish people developed from the early years of Christianity, the persecution of Christians in the New Testament, and persisted over the ensuing centuries, driven by numerous factors including theological differences, competition between Church and Synagogue, the Christian drive for converts decreed by the Great Commission, misunderstanding of Jewish beliefs and practices, and a perceived Jewish hostility toward Christians.

The Churches of Christ permitted only those practices found in accounts of New Testament worship.

The Disciples, by contrast, considered permissible any practices that the New Testament did not expressly forbid.

Feminist theology is a movement found in several religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and New Thought, to reconsider the traditions, practices, scriptures, and theologies of those religions from a feminist perspective.

This functions very well in New Zealand and includes law as it applies to contracts, restrictive trade practices, intellectual property and the law of misleading or deceptive conduct.

After his retirement Gardner moved to Highcliffe near the New Forest on the south coast of England, where he says he met a group of people who had preserved their historic occult practices.

While the New Age lacks any unified belief-system, many spiritual practices and philosophies are common among adherents of the movement — sometimes referred to as New Agers.

New hires quickly pick up the practices of the team and learn the specifics of the system.

Musical practices in New Spain continually coincided with European tendencies throughout the subsequent Baroque and Classical music periods.

Variants of the recipe, called Four Thieves Vinegar, have been passed down for hundreds of years and are a staple of New Orleans hoodoo practices.

* Spain's Bartolomé de Las Casas publishes his attack on colonial practices in the New World, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies.

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While it continues to be lauded to be the major force that defeated " imperialism and feudalism " and created a " New China " by the Communist Party of China, the ideology survives only in name on the Communist Party's Constitution ; Deng Xiaoping abolished most Maoist practices in 1978, advancing a guiding ideology called " Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., father of President John F. Kennedy, to serve as the first Chairman of the SEC, along with James M. Landis ( one of the architects of the 1934 Act and other New Deal legislation ) and Ferdinand Pecora ( Chief Counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency during its investigation of Wall Street banking and stock brokerage practices ).

Because of the wide array of legal requirements and because it is an expensive process, IPOs typically involve one or more law firms with major practices in securities law, such as the Magic Circle firms of London and the white shoe firms of New York City.

According to Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and others, the practices Genoa developed in the Mediterranean ( such as chattel slavery ) were crucial in the exploration and exploitation of the New World.

Scripture thus was interpreted as responses to historical or social forces, so that apparent contradictions and difficult passages in the New Testament, for example, might be clarified by comparing their possible meanings with contemporaneous Christian practices.

" The name the " Old Woman " ( Latin vetula ) for such " corn dolls " was in use among the Germanic pagans of Flanders in the 7th century, where Saint Eligius discouraged them from their old practices: " not make vetulas, ( little figures of the Old Woman ), little deer or iotticos or set tables the house-elf, compare Puck ( mythology ) | Puck at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks Yule custom.

A number of editions of the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier from late 1969 report an apparent latter-day cargo cult, but with more traditional practices.