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Religion and Magic in Western Culture
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Daniel Dubuisson
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-08 - Publisher: BRILL

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In this book, Daniel Dubuisson analyses the long history of the dichotomy between religion and magic, as well as the great stakes of power which it has conceale
Magic in Western Culture
Language: en
Pages: 615
Authors: Brian P. Copenhaver
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages.
Religion and the Decline of Magic
Language: en
Pages: 931
Authors: Keith Thomas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-30 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a b
Magic, Mystery, and Science
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: Dan Burton
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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"[P.D. Ouspensky's] yearning for a transcendent, timeless reality—one that cancels out physical disintegration and death—figures into science at some fundam
Making Magic
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Randall Styers
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-15 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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 an