Magic Science Religion

Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Mark A. Waddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Stanley J. Tambiah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521376319

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Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality by Stanley J. Tambiah Pdf

This accessible and illuminating book explores the classical opposition between magic, science and religion.

Author : Ira Livingston
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004358072

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Magic Science Religion by Ira Livingston Pdf

Magic Science Religion explores surprising intersections among the three meaning-making and world-making practices named in the title. Through colorful examples, the book reveals circuitous ways that social, cultural and natural systems connect, enabling real kinds of magic to operate.

Author : Allison P. Coudert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798216138112

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Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America by Allison P. Coudert Pdf

This fascinating study looks at how the seemingly incompatible forces of science, magic, and religion came together in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries to form the foundations of modern culture. As Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America makes clear, the early modern period was one of stark contrasts: witch burnings and the brilliant mathematical physics of Isaac Newton; John Locke's plea for tolerance and the palpable lack of it; the richness of intellectual and artistic life, and the poverty of material existence for all but a tiny percentage of the population. Yet, for all the poverty, insecurity, and superstition, the period produced a stunning galaxy of writers, artists, philosophers, and scientists. This book looks at the conditions that fomented the emergence of such outstanding talent, innovation, and invention in the period 1450 to 1800. It examines the interaction between religion, magic, and science during that time, the impossibility of clearly differentiating between the three, and the impact of these forces on the geniuses who laid the foundation for modern science and culture.

Author : Randall Styers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Alec Ryrie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : John Henry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351219280

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Religion, Magic, and the Origins of Science in Early Modern England by John Henry Pdf

In these articles John Henry argues on the one hand for the intimate relationship between religion and early modern attempts to develop new understandings of nature, and on the other hand for the role of occult concepts in early modern natural philosophy. Focussing on the scene in England, the articles provide detailed examinations of the religious motivations behind Roman Catholic efforts to develop a new mechanical philosophy, theories of the soul and immaterial spirits, and theories of active matter. There are also important studies of animism in the beginnings of experimentalism, the role of occult qualities in the mechanical philosophy, and a new account of the decline of magic. As well as general surveys, the collection includes in depth studies of William Gilbert, Sir Kenelm Digby, Henry More, Francis Glisson, Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, and Isaac Newton.

Author : Mary Bouquet,Nuno Porto
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Keith Thomas
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 931 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Ilkka Pyysiäinen
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780759115569

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Magic, Miracles, and Religion by Ilkka Pyysiäinen Pdf

Can scientists study religion? Ilkka PyysiSinen 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, PyysiSinen 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, PyysiSinen 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 : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473394063

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Myth in Primitive Psychology by Bronislaw Malinowski Pdf

This early work by Bronislaw Malinowski was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new biography of the author. 'Myth in Primitive Psychology' deals with various forms of myth and magic in relation to human psychology.

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9354015581

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Science, Religion and Reality by Joseph Needham Pdf

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
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989-06-01
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9780199729333

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Religion, Science, and Magic : In Concert and in Conflict by 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 Pdf

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.

Author : Bronislaw 1884-1942 Malinowski
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014351499

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Magic, Science and Religion by Bronislaw 1884-1942 Malinowski Pdf

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