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Magic Science and Religion and Other Essays
Author | : Bronislaw Malinowski |
Publsiher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2014-04-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781473393127 |
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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.
The Sorcerer s Tale
Author | : Alec Ryrie |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199570904 |
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An earl's son, plotting murder by witchcraft; conjuring spirits to find buried treasure; a stolen coat embroidered with pure silver; crooked gaming-houses and brothels; a terrifying new disease, and the self-trained surgeon who claims he can treat it. This is the world of Gregory Wisdom, a physician, magician, and consummate con-man in sixteenth-century London. Drawing on previously unknown documents to reconstruct this extraordinary man's career, Alec Ryrie takes us through the cut-throat business of early modern medicine, down to Tudor London's gangland of fraud and organized crime; from the world of Renaissance magi and Kabbalistic conjurers to street-corner wizards; and into the chaotic, exhilarating religious upheavals of the Reformation. On the way, we learn how Tudor England's dignified public face and its rapacious underworld were intimately connected to each other. Gregory Wisdom's career is an object lesson in how to conjure up wealth and respectability from nothing in a turbulent age. Praised as "an excellent snapshot of a time intrigued by the spiritual realm" (Los Angeles Times), this is a unique glimpse into a world intoxicated by new ideas.
Magic Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe
Author | : Mark A. Waddell |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2021-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108425285 |
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An accessible new exploration of the vibrant world of early modern Europe through a focus on magic, science, and religion.
Science Magic and Religion
Author | : Mary Bouquet,Nuno Porto |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1571815201 |
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Exploring the idea of the museum as a ritual site, this volume looks at contemporary experience across Europe and Africa to reveal the different ways in which various actors involved in cultural production dramatize and ritualize such places
Making Magic
Author | : Randall Styers |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2004-01-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780190287924 |
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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 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.
Religion Science and Magic In Concert and in Conflict
Author | : Jacob Neusner Professor of Religion University of South Florida,Ernest S. Frerichs Director Brown University Program in Judaic Studies,Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher Assistant Professor of the History and Literature of Religion Northwestern University |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1989-06-01 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : 9780199729333 |
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Every culture makes the distinction between "true religion" and magic, regarding one action and its result as "miraculous," while rejecting another as the work of the devil. Surveying such topics as Babylonian witchcraft, Jesus the magician, magic in Hasidism and Kabbalah, and magic in Anglo-Saxon England, these ten essays provide a rigrous examination of the history of this distinction in Christianity and Judaism. Written by such distinguished scholars as Jacob Neusner, Hans Penner, Howard Kee, Tzvi Abusch, Susan R. Garrett, and Moshe Idel, the essays explore a broad range of topics, including how certain social groups sort out approved practices and beliefs from those that are disapproved--providing fresh insight into how groups define themselves; "magic" as an insider's term for the outsider's religion; and the tendency of religious traditions to exclude the magical. In addition the collection provides illuminating social, cultural, and anthropological explanations for the prominence of the magical in certain periods and literature.
Magic Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality
Author | : Stanley J. Tambiah |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1990-03-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521376319 |
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This accessible and illuminating book explores the classical opposition between magic, science and religion.
Magic Science and Religion
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Author | : Bronislaw Malinowski |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:661443511 |
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