Religion Science And Magic In Concert And In Conflict
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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.
Religion Science and Magic
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Author | : Jacob Neusner,Ernest S. Frerichs,Paul V. Flesher |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:472848620 |
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Religion Science and Magic
Author | : Jacob Neusner,Ernest S. Frerichs,Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : 9780195079111 |
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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 rigorous 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 literatures.
Neoplatonism and Indian Philosophy
Author | : Paulos Gregorios |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0791452735 |
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Explores connections between Neoplatonism and Indian philosophy.
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.
Locating the Past Discovering the Present
Author | : David Gay,Stephen R. Reimer |
Publsiher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2010-07-30 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780888644992 |
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Comparative, interdisciplinary examination of the production of religious ideas and images over time and place.
Making Magic
Author | : Randall Styers |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2004-01-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0198037899 |
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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.
Communicating Science
Author | : Nicholas Russell |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521113830 |
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Ideal for students and practitioners in science, engineering and medicine, this book gives an insight into science's place in society.