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Defining Magic: A Reader

By Michael Stausberg (editor) , Bernd-Christian Otto (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
1908049790, 9781908049797
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2383503 bytes)
Series
Critical Categories in the Study of Religion
Edition
1
Pages
296\296
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2023-11-23 16:38:14

Description

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.

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