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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.

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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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.

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:

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.

Magic, Miracles, and Religion

Author : Ilkka Pyysiäinen
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759115567
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Book Synopsis Magic, Miracles, and Religion by : Ilkka Pyysiäinen

Download or read book Magic, Miracles, and Religion written by Ilkka Pyysiäinen and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can scientists study religion? Ilkka PyysiSinen says that they can. While the study of religion cannot be reduced to other disciplines, it must not ignore what other disciplines have learned about human thought and behavior. In this collection of essays, PyysiSinen shows how findings from cognitive science can offer new directions to debates in religion. After providing a historical and theoretical overview of the cognitive science of religion, PyysiSinen demonstrates how knowledge of the mind's workings can help deconstruct such concepts as 'god,' 'ideology,' 'culture,' 'magic,' 'miracles,' and 'religion.' For scholars of religion or for scholars of the mind-brain, Magic, Miracles, and Religion provides a helpful overview to this emerging field.

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.

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.

The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft -- Pearson eText

Author : Rebecca L Stein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317350219
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft -- Pearson eText by : Rebecca L Stein

Download or read book The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft -- Pearson eText written by Rebecca L Stein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book emphasizes the major concepts of both anthropology and the anthropology of religion and examines religious expression from a cross-cultural perspective while incorporating key theoretical concepts. It is aimed at students encountering anthropology for the first time.

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, 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 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.

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.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Volume I (Dodo Press)

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781409989462
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Volume I (Dodo Press) written by James George Frazer and published by Dodo Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. His most famous work, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (1890), documents and details similar magical and religious beliefs across the globe. He posited that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, in turn replaced by science. The study of myth and religion became his areas of expertise. His prime sources of data were ancient histories and questionnaires mailed to missionaries and Imperial officials all over the globe. He was the first to detail the relations between myths and rituals. Amongst his other works are Totemism (1887), Pausanias and Other Greek Sketches (1900), Folk-lore and the Old Testament (1907) and Letters of William Cowper (as editor) (1912).

The Golden Bough

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781442139428
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 828 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.

The Golden Bough

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ISBN 13 : 9780983719748
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir James Frazer's massive tome of comparative religion and magical practices. & ; & ;Written and published in 12 volumes between 1890 and 1915, Frazer's work is an immense reference of people, places and things in the religious world of humankind. & ; & ;A must for any student of religion, the occult or Anthropology, The Golden Bough scandalized Europe and served as a cornerstone of research for the scholars who followed.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Complete)

Author : Sir James George Frazer
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465538461
Total Pages : 6687 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Complete) written by Sir James George Frazer and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1957-01-01 with total page 6687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some time I have been preparing a general work on primitive superstition and religion. Among the problems which had attracted my attention was the hitherto unexplained rule of the Arician priesthood; and last spring it happened that in the course of my reading I came across some facts which, combined with others I had noted before, suggested an explanation of the rule in question. As the explanation, if correct, promised to throw light on some obscure features of primitive religion, I resolved to develop it fully, and, detaching it from my general work, to issue it as a separate study. This book is the result. Now that the theory, which necessarily presented itself to me at first in outline, has been worked out in detail, I cannot but feel that in some places I may have pushed it too far. If this should prove to have been the case, I will readily acknowledge and retract my error as soon as it is brought home to me. Meantime my essay may serve its purpose as a first attempt to solve a difficult problem, and to bring a variety of scattered facts into some sort of order and system. A justification is perhaps needed of the length at which I have dwelt upon the popular festivals observed by European peasants in spring, at midsummer, and at harvest. It can hardly be too often repeated, since it is not yet generally recognised, that in spite of their fragmentary character the popular superstitions and customs of the peasantry are by far the fullest and most trustworthy evidence we possess as to the primitive religion of the Aryans. Indeed the primitive Aryan, in all that regards his mental fibre and texture, is not extinct. He is amongst us to this day. The great intellectual and moral forces which have revolutionised the educated world have scarcely affected the peasant. In his inmost beliefs he is what his forefathers were in the days when forest trees still grew and squirrels played on the ground where Rome and London now stand.