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Religion and the Decline of Magic

By Keith Thomas

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Global
Year
2012
ISBN
0140137440, 9780140137446
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2862749 bytes)
Series
Penguin History
Pages
880\0
Topic
Religion
Time added
2013-04-30 21:22:35
Религиоведение;Эзотериология

Description

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.

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