Magic Witchcraft And Religion A Reader In The Anthropology Of Religion

Author : Pamela Moro,James Myers
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0078140013

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Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion by Pamela Moro,James Myers Pdf

This comparative reader takes an anthropological approach to the study of religious beliefs and practices, both strange and familiar. The engaging articles on all key issues related to the anthropology of religion grab the attention of students, while giving them an excellent foundation in contemporary ideas and approaches in the field. The multiple authors included in each chapter represent a range of interests, geographic foci, and ways of looking at each subject. Divided into 10 chapters, this book begins with a broad view of anthropological ways of looking at religion and moves on to some of the core topics within the subject, such as myth, ritual, and the various types of religious specialties.

Author : Rebecca L Stein,Philip Stein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1037107278

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Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Myers,Pamela Moro, Professor
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0078034949

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Magic Witchcraft and Religion: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion by James Myers,Pamela Moro, Professor Pdf

Magic Witchcraft and Religion: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion takes an anthropological approach to the study of religious beliefs and practices, both strange and familiar. The engaging articles on all key issues related to the anthropology of religion grab the attention of students, while giving them an excellent foundation in contemporary ideas and approaches in the field. The multiple authors included in each chapter represent a range of interests, geographic foci, and ways of looking at each subject. Features of the ninth edition include new study questions and articles, as well as updated discussions on religion, illness, healing, and death.

Author : Michael Lambek
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0631221131

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A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion by Michael Lambek Pdf

A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings on the anthropology of religion. It includes both material whose theme is 'religion' in a straightforward and obvious sense, as well as material that has expanded how we might look at religion - and the horizons of what we mean by 'religion' - linking it to broader questions of culture and politics.

Author : Arthur C. Lehmann,James Edward Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Occultism
ISBN : UCBK:B000692665

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Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion by Arthur C. Lehmann,James Edward Myers Pdf

Author : Keith Thomas
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 931 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Susan Greenwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000181227

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Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld by Susan Greenwood Pdf

Anthropology's long and complex relationship to magic has been strongly influenced by western science and notions of rationality. This book takes a refreshing new look at modern magic as practised by contemporary Pagans in Britain. It focuses on what Pagans see as the essence of magic - a communication with an otherworldly reality. Examining issues of identity, gender and morality, the author argues that the otherworld forms a central defining characteristic of magical practice. Integrating an experiential ethnographic approach with an analysis of magic, this book asks penetrating questions about the nature of otherworldly knowledge and argues that our scientific frameworks need re-envisioning. It is unique in providing an insider's view of how magic is practised in contemporary western culture.

Author : Robert L. Winzeler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780759121898

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Anthropology and Religion by Robert L. Winzeler Pdf

Drawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this revised and updated text, hailed as the "best general text on religion in anthropology available," offers an introduction to what anthropologists know or think about religion, how they have studied it, and how...

Author : Sabina Magliocco
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812202700

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Witching Culture by Sabina Magliocco Pdf

Taking the reader into the heart of one of the fastest-growing religious movements in North America, Sabina Magliocco reveals how the disciplines of anthropology and folklore were fundamental to the early development of Neo-Paganism and the revival of witchcraft. Magliocco examines the roots that this religious movement has in a Western spiritual tradition of mysticism disavowed by the Enlightenment. She explores, too, how modern Pagans and Witches are imaginatively reclaiming discarded practices and beliefs to create religions more in keeping with their personal experience of the world as sacred and filled with meaning. Neo-Pagan religions focus on experience, rather than belief, and many contemporary practitioners have had mystical experiences. They seek a context that normalizes them and creates in them new spiritual dimensions that involve change in ordinary consciousness. Magliocco analyzes magical practices and rituals of Neo-Paganism as art forms that reanimate the cosmos and stimulate the imagination of its practitioners. She discusses rituals that are put together using materials from a variety of cultural and historical sources, and examines the cultural politics surrounding the movement—how the Neo-Pagan movement creates identity by contrasting itself against the dominant culture and how it can be understood in the context of early twenty-first-century identity politics. Witching Culture is the first ethnography of this religious movement to focus specifically on the role of anthropology and folklore in its formation, on experiences that are central to its practice, and on what it reveals about identity and belief in twenty-first-century North America.

Author : Jesper Sørensen,Anders Klostergaard Petersen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004447585

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Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Divination and Magic by Jesper Sørensen,Anders Klostergaard Petersen Pdf

In Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Divination and Magic ten leading scholars of religion provide up-to-date investigations into these classic domains from historical, anthropological, cognitive, philosophical and theoretical perspectives.

Author : Bernd-Christian Otto,Michael Stausberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317545040

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Defining Magic by Bernd-Christian Otto,Michael Stausberg Pdf

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. CONTRIBUTORS: Aquinas, Augustine, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Dennis Diderot, Emile Durkheim, Edward Evans-Pritchard, James Frazer, Susan Greenwood, Robin Horton, Edmund Leach, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Christopher Lehrich, Bronislaw Malinowski, Marcel Mauss, Agrippa von Nettesheim, Plato, Pliny, Plotin, Isidore of Sevilla, Jesper Sorensen, Kimberley Stratton, Randall Styers, Edward Tylor

Author : Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard,Eva Gillies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780198740292

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Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard,Eva Gillies Pdf

An abridged version of the 1937 an-thropological study of the Azande of the southern Sudan, the theoretical insights of which have proven increasingly influential among both anthropologists and others

Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Rebecca L. Stein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Anthropology of religion
ISBN : OCLC:1012102968

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The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft by Rebecca L. Stein Pdf