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Religion and the Decline of Magic

Author : Keith Thomas
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141932406
Total Pages : 931 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Decline of Magic written by Keith Thomas and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. Keith Thomas's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700, when science and rationalism began to challenge the older systems of belief.

The Golden Bough

Author : Sir James George Frazer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by Sir James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Between Magic and Religion

Author : Sulochana Ruth Asirvatham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847699698
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis Between Magic and Religion by : Sulochana Ruth Asirvatham

Download or read book Between Magic and Religion written by Sulochana Ruth Asirvatham and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Magic and Religion represents a radical rethinking of traditional distinctions involving the term 'religion' in the ancient Greek world and beyond, through late antiquity to the seventeenth century. The title indicates the fluidity of such concepts as religion and magic, highlighting the wide variety of meanings evoked by these shifting terms from ancient to modern times. The contributors put these meanings to the test, applying a wide range of methods in exploring the many varieties of available historical, archaeological, iconographical, and literary evidence. No reader will ever think of magic and religion the same way after reading through the findings presented in this book. Both terms emerge in a new light, with broader applications and deeper meanings.

Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America

Author : Allison P. Coudert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America by : Allison P. Coudert

Download or read book Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America written by Allison P. Coudert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study looks at how the seemingly incompatible forces of science, magic, and religion came together in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries to form the foundations of modern culture. As Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America makes clear, the early modern period was one of stark contrasts: witch burnings and the brilliant mathematical physics of Isaac Newton; John Locke's plea for tolerance and the palpable lack of it; the richness of intellectual and artistic life, and the poverty of material existence for all but a tiny percentage of the population. Yet, for all the poverty, insecurity, and superstition, the period produced a stunning galaxy of writers, artists, philosophers, and scientists. This book looks at the conditions that fomented the emergence of such outstanding talent, innovation, and invention in the period 1450 to 1800. It examines the interaction between religion, magic, and science during that time, the impossibility of clearly differentiating between the three, and the impact of these forces on the geniuses who laid the foundation for modern science and culture.

Making Magic

Author : Randall Styers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190287926
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Making Magic written by Randall Styers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to distinctly modern models of religion and science. Yet this notion of magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. In Making Magic, Randall Styers seeks to account for the extraordinary vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that this persistence can best be explained in light of the Western drive to establish and secure distinctive norms for modern identity, norms based on narrow forms of instrumental rationality, industrious labor, rigidly defined sexual roles, and the containment of wayward forms of desire. Magic has served to designate a form of alterity or deviance against which dominant Western notions of appropriate religious piety, legitimate scientific rationality, and orderly social relations are brought into relief. Scholars have found magic an invaluable tool in their efforts to define the appropriate boundaries of religion and science. On a broader level, says Styers, magical thinking has served as an important foil for modernity itself. Debates over the nature of magic have offered a particularly rich site at which scholars have worked to define and to contest the nature of modernity and norms for life in the modern world.

The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 3736412371
Total Pages : 1261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion written by James George Frazer and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 1261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years ago, I thought that the solution could be propounded very briefly, but I soon found that to render it probable or even intelligible it was necessary to discuss certain more general questions, some of which had hardly been broached before. In successive editions the discussion of these and kindred topics has occupied more and more space, the enquiry has branched out in more and more directions, until the two volumes of the original work have expanded into twelve. Meantime a wish has often been expressed that the book should be issued in a more compendious form. This abridgment is an attempt to meet the wish and thereby to bring the work within the range of a wider circle of readers. While the bulk of the book has been greatly reduced, I have endeavoured to retain its leading principles, together with an amount of evidence sufficient to illustrate them clearly. The language of the original has also for the most part been preserved, though here and there the exposition has been somewhat condensed. In order to keep as much of the text as possible I have sacrificed all the notes, and with them all exact references to my authorities. Readers who desire to ascertain the source of any particular statement must therefore consult the larger work, which is fully documented and provided with a complete bibliography.

The Golden Bough

Author : Sir James George Frazer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by Sir James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality

Author : Stanley J. Tambiah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521376310
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (763 download)

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Download or read book Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality written by Stanley J. Tambiah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-03-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and illuminating book explores the classical opposition between magic, science and religion.

Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473393124
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Book Synopsis Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays by : Bronislaw Malinowski

Download or read book Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains three prolific essays by the world renown polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. First published in 1926, Magic, Science and Religion provides its readers with a seminal collection of texts exploring the concepts of magic, religion, science, rite and myth, detailing how they interlink to offer exciting and informative insights into the Trobrianders of New Guinea. A must-have for any students of anthropology and collectors of Malinowski’s work, we are republishing this classic work with a new introductory biography of the author.

Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft

Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438410727
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft written by James R. Lewis and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-04-19 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive anthology examines contemporary neo-paganism ranging from goddess theology to historical-critical essays. Many of the contributors are academically trained neo-pagans, and the resulting volume is a benchmark study of a significant movement that promises to reshape the religious landscape of the next century.

The Sacred and the Sinister

Author : David J. Collins, S. J.
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271084375
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sacred and the Sinister by : David J. Collins, S. J.

Download or read book The Sacred and the Sinister written by David J. Collins, S. J. and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval religion and magic so difficult to differentiate. The essays in this collection investigate how the holy and unholy were distinguished in medieval Europe, where their characteristics diverged, and the implications of that deviation. In the Middle Ages, the natural world was understood as divinely created and infused with mysterious power. This world was accessible to human knowledge and susceptible to human manipulation through three modes of engagement: religion, magic, and science. How these ways of understanding developed in light of modern notions of rationality is an important element of ongoing scholarly conversation. As Kieckhefer has emphasized, ambiguity and ambivalence characterize medieval understandings of the divine and demonic powers at work in the world. The ten chapters in this volume focus on four main aspects of this assertion: the cult of the saints, contested devotional relationships and practices, unsettled judgments between magic and religion, and inconclusive distinctions between magic and science. Freshly insightful, this study of ambiguity between magic and religion will be of special interest to scholars in the fields of medieval studies, religious studies, European history, and the history of science. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume are Michael D. Bailey, Kristi Woodward Bain, Maeve B. Callan, Elizabeth Casteen, Claire Fanger, Sean L. Field, Anne M. Koenig, Katelyn Mesler, and Sophie Page.

Defining Magic

Author : Bernd-Christian Otto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317545044
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Defining Magic written by Bernd-Christian Otto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts that aim at determining the nature of magic, establish its boundaries and key features, and explain its working. The reader brings together seminal writings from antiquity to today. The texts have been selected on the strength of their success in defining magic as a category, their impact on future scholarship, and their originality. The writings are divided into chronological sections and each essay is separately introduced for student readers. Together, these texts - from Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies, and Anthropology - reveal the breadth of critical approaches and responses to defining what is magic. CONTRIBUTORS: Aquinas, Augustine, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Dennis Diderot, Emile Durkheim, Edward Evans-Pritchard, James Frazer, Susan Greenwood, Robin Horton, Edmund Leach, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Christopher Lehrich, Bronislaw Malinowski, Marcel Mauss, Agrippa von Nettesheim, Plato, Pliny, Plotin, Isidore of Sevilla, Jesper Sorensen, Kimberley Stratton, Randall Styers, Edward Tylor

Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic

Author : David Frankfurter
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004390758
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic written by David Frankfurter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to advance the study of ancient magic through separate discussions of ancient terms for ambiguous or illicit ritual, the ancient texts commonly designated magical, and contexts in which the term magic may be used descriptively.

Killing the god (cont'd) The golden bough

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Killing the god (cont'd) The golden bough written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Golden Bough

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781017043419
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion

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

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Download or read book Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Golden Bough

Author : James Frazer
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141194014
Total Pages : 1232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James Frazer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1996-08-29 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) caught the popular imagination with his vast and enterprising comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, which in its third edition numbered 12 volumes. Reissued here is Frazer's own single-volume abridgement of 1922.