Magic Miracles And Religion

Author : Ilkka Pyysiäinen
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0759106630

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Magic, Miracles, and Religion by Ilkka Pyysiäinen Pdf

Can scientists study religion? Ilkka Pyysiäinen says that they can. While the study of religion cannot be reduced to other disciplines, it must not ignore what other disciplines have learned about human thought and behavior. In this collection of essays, Pyysiäinen shows how findings from cognitive science can offer new directions to debates in religion. After providing a historical and theoretical overview of the cognitive science of religion, Pyysiäinen demonstrates how knowledge of the mind's workings can help deconstruct such concepts as "god," "ideology," "culture," "magic," "miracles," and "religion." For scholars of religion or for scholars of the mind-brain, Magic, Miracles, and Religion provides a helpful overview to this emerging field.

Author : Eusèbe Salverte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Magic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNJD4S

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The Occult Sciences by Eusèbe Salverte Pdf

Author : Anne Joseph Eusèbe Baconnière-Salverte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Magic
ISBN : MINN:319510008884615

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The Philosophy of Magic, Prodigies and Apparent Miracles by Anne Joseph Eusèbe Baconnière-Salverte Pdf

Author : Andy Reimer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567008848

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Miracle and Magic by Andy Reimer Pdf

Miracle-workers and magicians are diffcult characters for contemporary readers of Greco-Roman narratives to comprehend and to distinguish. Hindered both by our modern definitions of "miracle" and "magic," we need to focus our attention on those ancient texts that deal with such characters and their differentiation. Two such texts, the Acts of the Apostles and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius, come from quite different religious backgrounds, but demonstrate remarkably similar subtle cultural scripts at play. A detailed investigation of the social interactions in these two narrative worlds brings these characters and their communities alive and reveals how legitimate miracle-workers were distinguished from illegitimate magicians by the Mediterranean population of the Greco-Roman world.

Author : Eusèbe Salverte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1704235561

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The Occult Sciences by Eusèbe Salverte Pdf

This examination of the connection between the belief in miracles and religious practices in ancient times was originally written by French politician and polymath Anne-Joseph-Eusèbe Baconnière de Salverte (1771-1839) and published in 1829. In 1846, it was translated into English by a Scottish physician and writer, Anthony Todd Thomson (1778-1849), and published in two volumes. Thomson explains that Salverte's work was an important study of miracles and the power of priests, and he had 'performed a beneficial service in throwing open the gates of ancient sanctuaries'. However, Thomson also states that he differed from Salverte over the idea of the miraculous, and that he had expunged or heavily edited any passages relating to Christianity, even changing 'miracles' in the original subtitle to 'apparent miracles'. Volume 1 begins with a consideration of human credulity before discussing magic in the ancient world, and offering explanations for supernatural phenomena. Volume 2 discusses the role of drugs and poison in magic, as well as the influence of weather on miraculous events.This edition is an exact facsimile of the 1847 edition currently held by The National Library of Medicine.

Author : Robert Knapp
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674976467

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The Dawn of Christianity by Robert Knapp Pdf

Robert Knapp reveals why some ordinary people in Judea and in the Roman and Greek worlds embraced a new approach to the supernatural in their daily lives. In a time of prophets, miracles, and magic, Jesus convinced people to change their beliefs by showing his connection to god-like power and solidifying his credentials through the Resurrection.

Author : Redmond Mullin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 0264664345

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Miracles and Magic by Redmond Mullin Pdf

Author : Rory Roybal
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1597812501

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Miracles Or Magic? by Rory Roybal Pdf

Author : Helen L. Parish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136522055

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Monks, Miracles and Magic by Helen L. Parish Pdf

Helen L. Parish presents an innovative new study of Reformation attitudes to medieval Christianity, revealing the process by which the medieval past was rewritten by Reformation propagandists. This fascinating account sheds light on how the myths and legends of the middle ages were reconstructed, reinterpreted, and formed into a historical base for the Protestant church in the sixteenth century. Crossing the often artificial boundary between medieval and modern history, Parish draws upon a valuable selection of writings on the lives of the saints from both periods, and addresses ongoing debates over the relationship between religion and the supernatural in early modern Europe. Setting key case studies in a broad conceptual framework, Monks, Miracles and Magic is essential reading for all those with an interest in the construction of the Protestant church, and its medieval past.

Author : Eusèbe Salverte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108044318

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Occult Sciences by Eusèbe Salverte Pdf

A two-volume 1846 translation of an examination of miracles in ancient times by a French polymath, first published in 1829.

Author : Graham H. Twelftree
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139828536

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The Cambridge Companion to Miracles by Graham H. Twelftree Pdf

The miracle stories of the founders and saints of the major world religions have much in common. Written by international experts, this Companion provides an authoritative and comparative study of miracles in not only Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism, but also, indigenous religions. The authors promote a discussion of the problems of miracles in our largely secular culture, and of the value of miracles in religious belief. The miracles of Jesus are also contextualized through chapters on the Hebrew Bible, classical culture to the Romans, Second Temple and early rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. This book provides students with a scholarly introduction to miracles, which also covers philosophical, medical and historical issues.

Author : Howard Clark Kee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521323096

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Medicine, Miracle, and Magic in New Testament Times by Howard Clark Kee Pdf

This book illustrates in detail the range of understandings of the human condition in New Testament times.

Author : Anne Joseph Eusèbe Baconnière-Salverte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590045573

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The occult sciences, the philosophy of magic, prodigies and apparent miracles. From the Fr., with notes, by A.T. Thomson by Anne Joseph Eusèbe Baconnière-Salverte Pdf

Author : Eusebe Salverte
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016653220

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The Occult Sciences by Eusebe Salverte Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Eusèbe Salverte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108044301

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Occult Sciences by Eusèbe Salverte Pdf

A two-volume 1846 translation of an examination of miracles in ancient times by a French polymath, first published in 1829.