Magic And Religion

Author : Keith Thomas
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 931 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141932408

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Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas Pdf

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.

Author : W.H.R. Rivers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134524549

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Medicine, Magic and Religion by W.H.R. Rivers Pdf

One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. Immortalized as the hero of Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration trilogy, Rivers was the clinician who, in the First World War, cared for the poet Siegfried Sassoon and other infantry officers injured on the western front. His researches into the borders of psychiatry, medicine and religion made him a prominent member of the British intelligentsia of the time, a friend of H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell. Part of his appeal lay in an extraordinary intellect, mixed with a very real interest in his fellow man. Medicine, Magic and Religion is a prime example of this. A social institution, it is one of Rivers' finest works. In it, Rivers introduced the then revolutionary idea that indigenous practices are indeed rational, when viewed in terms of religious beliefs.

Author : Sulochana Ruth Asirvatham,Corinne Ondine Pache,John Watrous
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0847699692

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Between Magic and Religion by Sulochana Ruth Asirvatham,Corinne Ondine Pache,John Watrous Pdf

Between Magic and Religion represents a radical rethinking of traditional distinctions involving the term 'religion' in the ancient Greek world and beyond, through late antiquity to the seventeenth century. The title indicates the fluidity of such concepts as religion and magic, highlighting the wide variety of meanings evoked by these shifting terms from ancient to modern times. The contributors put these meanings to the test, applying a wide range of methods in exploring the many varieties of available historical, archaeological, iconographical, and literary evidence. No reader will ever think of magic and religion the same way after reading through the findings presented in this book. Both terms emerge in a new light, with broader applications and deeper meanings.

Author : Catherine Rider
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780230740

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Magic and Religion in Medieval England by Catherine Rider Pdf

During the Middle Ages, many occult rituals and beliefs existed and were practiced alongside those officially sanctioned by the church. While educated clergy condemned some of these as magic, many of these practices involved religious language, rituals, or objects. For instance, charms recited to cure illnesses invoked God and the saints, and love spells used consecrated substances such as the Eucharist. Magic and Religion in Medieval England explores the entanglement of magical practices and the clergy during the Middle Ages, uncovering how churchmen decided which of these practices to deem acceptable and examining the ways they persuaded others to adopt their views. Covering the period from 1215 to the Reformation, Catherine Rider traces the change in the church’s attitude to vernacular forms of magic. She shows how this period brought the clergy more closely into contact with unofficial religious practices than ever before, and how this proximity prompted them to draw up precise guidelines on distinguishing magic from legitimate religion. Revealing the necessity of improving clerical education and the pastoral care of the laity, Magic and Religion in Medieval England provides a fascinating picture of religious life during this period.

Author : Daniel Dubuisson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004317567

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Religion and Magic in Western Culture by Daniel Dubuisson Pdf

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 concealed over the centuries.

Author : Rebecca L Stein,Philip Stein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317350217

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The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft -- Pearson eText by Rebecca L Stein,Philip Stein Pdf

This book emphasizes the major concepts of both anthropology and the anthropology of religion and examines religious expression from a cross-cultural perspective while incorporating key theoretical concepts. It is aimed at students encountering anthropology for the first time.

Author : Randall Styers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190287924

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Making Magic by Randall Styers Pdf

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.

Author : Keith Thomas
Publisher : Scribner Paper Fiction
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : England
ISBN : UCAL:$B640626

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Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas Pdf

Religion & the Decline of Magic is Keith Thomas's classic history of the magical beliefs held by people on every level of English society in the 16th and 17th centuries and how these beliefs were a part of the religious and scientific assumptions of the time. It is not only a major historical and religious work, but a thoroughly enjoyable book filled with fascinating facts and original insights into an area of human nature that remains controversial today- the belief in the supernatural that still continues in the modern world.

Author : Mary Bouquet,Nuno Porto
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 1571815201

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Science, Magic and Religion by Mary Bouquet,Nuno Porto Pdf

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

Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781473393127

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Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays by Bronislaw Malinowski Pdf

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.

Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438410722

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Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft by James R. Lewis Pdf

This comprehensive anthology examines contemporary neo-paganism ranging from goddess theology to historical-critical essays. Many of the contributors are academically trained neo-pagans, and the resulting volume is a benchmark study of a significant movement that promises to reshape the religious landscape of the next century.

Author : Alec Ryrie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199570904

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The Sorcerer's Tale by Alec Ryrie Pdf

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.

Author : Mark A. Waddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425285

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Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe by Mark A. Waddell Pdf

An accessible new exploration of the vibrant world of early modern Europe through a focus on magic, science, and religion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1037107278

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Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alice B. Child,Irvin Long Child
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : IND:30000039893320

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Religion and Magic in the Life of Traditional Peoples by Alice B. Child,Irvin Long Child Pdf

Addressing the question: "What does religion do for people?," this text offers a general, comparative review of the religions of traditional societies -- of their character and the variations among them. It covers mystical power and its sources; animals and plants in religion; supernatural beings; wizardry; illness and healing; death and the afterlife;, festivals; and more. For sociologists, anthropologists, and all those interested in religion and magic.