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A Private Sorcery

Author : Lisa Gornick
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616203676
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book A Private Sorcery written by Lisa Gornick and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2002-10-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saul Dubinsky, a sensitive, shy psychiatrist, was living a dual life. Following the attempted suicide of one of his patients, the dedicated young doctor turned to drugs. When he's arrested on criminal charges, his wife and his father are left to figure out how things went so wrong and why they were blind to the pain of the man they both love. Saul's emotionally remote wife, Rena, confronts the failures of their marriage and, for the first time, faces her shame about her fatherless, hardscrabble past. Saul's father, Leonard, who'd long ago given up practicing psychiatry, blames himself for his son's breakdown. He finds that he can no longer escape the memory of the troubled patient who changed the course of his own career nor deny his complicity in his wife's illness. As Rena and Leonard each grapple with the impact of Saul's arrest, they are drawn closer together-and a delicate transformation begins to occur in each of them. This is an immensely satisfying and ultimately triumphant story abouat the precarious balance within a family and about the unconscious ways in which we affect the lives of those we love most. Full of wisdom and insight, A PRIVATE SORCERY marks the debut of a talented writer.

A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics & Pagans (Third)

Author : Jeffrey B. Russell
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 050077871X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics & Pagans (Third) written by Jeffrey B. Russell and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and concise history of witchcraft from the ancient world up to the present day. Witchcraft has always been a fluid and intriguing belief system that has enchanted and sometimes terrified humanity. Now in its third edition, A History of Witchcraft has established itself as the authoritative history of witchery and the occult. Beginning with magic in the ancient world, Jeffrey B. Russell explores the definition of witchcraft in its many diverse forms, from the worship of the Greek goddess of magic, Hecate, and the witch crazes of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to the development of modern witchcraft by Aleister Crowley and Gerald Gardner in the early twentieth century. Brooks Alexander analyzes the development of witchcraft and neo-paganism in the present day, charting the dissemination of modern witchcraft through media and the tensions that arise when a secretive cult becomes an open and recognized religion. This updated edition features a new chapter exploring the challenges that witchcraft has faced in the past decade, including the rise of social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, the COVID-19 pandemic, and new neo-pagan groups.

Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia

Author : C. W. Watson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824815158
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia written by C. W. Watson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft holds a perennial fascination for scholars and the public at large. In Southeast Asia malign magic and sorcery are part of the routine experience of villagers and urban dwellers alike, and stories appearing in the press from time to time bear witness to a persisting public concern. The essays presented in this volume describe what people believe and what actions result from those beliefs. Not surprisingly, given the range and variety of cultures, considerable differences exist in the region. Among some cultures, in Thailand and Indonesia for example, sorcerers are said to possess spirits that empower them to cause illness and misfortune. Elsewhere, in Malaysia and Sumatra, the power of the dukun derives from the accumulation of arcane knowledge and mystical practice. Contributors describe the witches and sorcerers they have met and suggest both how their societies look upon them and how we in turn should regard them. Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia will appeal to scholars and students of social anthropology and comparative religion. Its substantial contribution to theoretical and comparative issues in a Southeast Asian context provides a fresh perspective on a stimulating topic.

The Golden Bough

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Open Court

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Open Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Open Court

Author : Paul Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Open Court written by Paul Carus and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Golden bough

Author : J. G. Frazer
Publisher : FilRougeViceversa
ISBN 13 : 3985517053
Total Pages : 1561 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Golden bough written by J. G. Frazer and published by FilRougeViceversa. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 1561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHO does not know Turners picture of the Golden Bough? The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of the little woodland lake of Nemi Dianas Mirror, as it was called by the ancients. No one who has seen that calm water, lapped in a green hollow of the Alban hills, can ever forget it. The two characteristic Italian villages which slumber on its banks, and the equally Italian palace whose terraced gardens descend steeply to the lake, hardly break the stillness and even the solitariness of the scene. Diana herself might still linger by this lonely shore, still haunt these woodlands wild.

The Power of the Occult in Modern Africa

Author : James Kiernan
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825887612
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book The Power of the Occult in Modern Africa written by James Kiernan and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The occult is a framework of ideas and related practices that is drawn upon as a common resource to provide an understanding of how an apparently random world 'really' works. Based mainly on experiential research in a range of African societies, the essays in this volume examine the relevance of the occult to a variety of social concepts and contexts. These studies stress three features of the occult in modern Africa: 1) as an explanatory and tactical device, it is resilient; 2) it is malleable, with a capacity to absorb and assimilate new elements; 3) it is flexible and adaptable to emerging situations and novel circumstances. Of interest to specialists in the fields of religion, social science and African studies, this book will benefit the general reader interested in the occult and its relevance to modernity and globalisation.

Coral Gardens and Their Magic

Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113455687X
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Coral Gardens and Their Magic written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of a two volume classic devoted to the agriculture and agricultural rites of the Trobriand Islanders. This work looks at the signigicance of agriculture in the Trobriand Islands.

Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands

Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher : SEVERUS Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3863476468
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by SEVERUS Verlag. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of Papua New Guinea, the Trobriant Islands are located in a bordering sea of the Pacific Ocean. At the beginning of the 20th century the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski was one of the first to explore the archipelago in the South Sea and ist inhabitants. In the context of his work he discovered that Freund’s psychoanalytic universality thesis regarding the Oedipus complex is not true for the islanders. In this first volume out of three, Malinowsky deals with the tribal economics and social organizations as well as the trobriandan gardening techniques and the magic within this kind of work.

Louisa Meets Bear

Author : Lisa Gornick
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374710260
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Louisa Meets Bear written by Lisa Gornick and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Louisa and Bear meet at Princeton in 1975, sparks fly. Louisa is the sexually adventurous daughter of a geneticist, Bear the volatile son of a plumber. They dive headfirst into a passionate affair that will alter the course of their lives, changing how they define themselves in the years and relationships that follow. Lisa Gornick's Louisa Meets Bear is a gripping novel in interconnected stories from an author whose work "starts off like a brush fire and then engulfs and burns with fury" (The Huffington Post). Reading Louisa Meets Bear is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, as we uncover the subtle and startling connections between new characters and the star-crossed lovers. We meet a daughter who stabs her mother when she learns the truth about her father, a wife who sees herself clearly after finding a man dead on her office floor, a mother who discovers a girl in her teenage son's bed. Each character is striking, each rendered with Gornick's trademark sympathy and psychological acuity. We follow them over the course of a half century, from San Francisco to New York City and from Guatemala to Venice, through pregnancies, tragedies, and revelations, until we return to Louisa and Bear. With flawed and deeply human characters, and piercing insight into the lives of women, Louisa Meets Bear grapples with whether we can--or can't--choose how and whom we love.

Tinderbox

Author : Lisa Gornick
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374710252
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Tinderbox written by Lisa Gornick and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you invite a stranger into your home, you never know who's really coming in . . . Myra is a Manhattan psychotherapist. A quick study and an excellent judge of character, she thinks she knows what she's getting when she hires a nanny—it's her job, after all, to analyze people. Her phobia-addled son has just moved back in with his wife and child, and the new nanny, Eva, seems like a perfect addition: she cleans like a demon and irons like a dream, and she forms an immediate bond with Myra's grandson. But as Eva, a Peruvian immigrant, reveals more of herself, what seemed a felicitous arrangement turns ominous. She racks the household with screams from a night terror. She spits in her hands to ward off evil spirits. Then, one afternoon, she settles into Myra's patient chair and begins to expose the secrets of her past. Their relationship slowly and inexorably becomes too close, too dependent, and, ultimately, terrifyingly destructive. As events spiral out of Myra's control, she learns that even a family as close-knit as her own can have plenty to hide. In the rich tradition of Lionel Shriver, Jane Hamilton, and Anne Tyler, the psychoanalyst and novelist Lisa Gornick tells us a story about the tragedy of good intentions. Tinderbox spins a suspenseful mystery of hidden traumas. It's a searingly perceptive, deeply honest novel about families and secrets, and power, and love.

Sorcery

Author : Francis Charles MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Sorcery written by Francis Charles MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Magic and Fetishism

Author : Alfred Cort Haddon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic and Fetishism written by Alfred Cort Haddon and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Daughters of Hecate

Author : Kimberly B. Stratton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199711550
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Daughters of Hecate written by Kimberly B. Stratton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture. The book illuminates the gendering of ancient magic by approaching the topic from three distinct disciplinary perspectives: literary stereotyping, the social application of magic discourse, and material culture. The authors probe the foundations of, processes, and motivations behind gendered stereotypes, beginning with Western culture's earliest associations of women and magic in the Bible and Homer's Odyssey. Daughters of Hecate provides a nuanced exploration of the topic while avoiding reductive approaches. In fact, the essays in this volume uncover complexities and counter-discourses that challenge, rather than reaffirm, many gendered stereotypes taken for granted and reified by most modern scholarship. By combining critical theoretical methods with research into literary and material evidence, Daughters of Hecate interrogates a false association that has persisted from antiquity, to early modern witch hunts, to the present day.

The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fusion of the Worlds

Author : Paul Stoller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226775496
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Fusion of the Worlds written by Paul Stoller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies."—Choice "Stoller brilliantly recreates the reality of spirit presence; hosts are what they mediate, and spirits become flesh and blood in the 'fusion' with human existence. . . . An excellent demonstration of the benefits of a new genre of ethnographic writing. It expands our understanding of the harsh world of Songhay mediums and sorcerers."—Bruce Kapferer, American Ethnologist "A vivid story that will appeal to a wide audience. . . . The voices of individual Songhay are evident and forceful throughout the story. . . . Like a painter, [Stoller] is concerned with the rich surface of things, with depicting images, evoking sensations, and enriching perceptions. . . . He has succeeded admirably." —Michael Lambek, American Anthropologist "Events (ceremonies and life histories) are evoked in cinematic style. . . . [This book is] approachable and absorbing—it is well written, uncluttered by jargon and elegantly structured."—Richard Fardon, Times Higher Education Supplement "Compelling, insightful, rich in ethnographic detail, and worthy of becoming a classic in the scholarship on Africa."—Aidan Southall, African Studies Review