Representing Magic In Modern Ireland

Author : Andrew Sneddon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108957502

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Representing Magic in Modern Ireland by Andrew Sneddon Pdf

This Element argues that Ireland did not experience a disenchanted modernity, nor a decline in magic. It suggests that beliefs, practices and traditions concerning witchcraft and magic developed and adapted to modernity to retain cultural currency until the end of the twentieth century. This analysis provides the backdrop for the first systematic exploration of how historic Irish trials of witches and cunning-folk were represented by historians, antiquarians, journalists, dramatists, poets, and novelists in Ireland between the late eighteenth and late twentieth century. It is demonstrated that this work created an accepted narrative of Irish witchcraft and magic which glossed over, ignored, or obscured the depth of belief in witchcraft, both in the past and in contemporary society. Collectively, their work gendered Irish witchcraft, created a myth of a disenchanted, modern Ireland, and reinforced competing views of Irishness and Irish identity. These long-held stereotypes were only challenged in the late twentieth-century.

Author : Andrew Sneddon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137319173

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Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland by Andrew Sneddon Pdf

This is the first academic overview of witchcraft and popular magic in Ireland and spans the medieval to the modern period. Based on a wide range of un-used and under-used primary source material, and taking account of denominational difference between Catholic and Protestant, it provides a detailed account of witchcraft trials and accusation.

Author : Gladys Ganiel,Professor in the Sociology of Religion Gladys Ganiel,Andrew R. Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198868699

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The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland by Gladys Ganiel,Professor in the Sociology of Religion Gladys Ganiel,Andrew R. Holmes Pdf

This volume offers a range of sociological, political, and historical perspectives on religion in Ireland from 1800 to the present. Going beyond the usual Catholicism-Protestantism dichotomy and adopting an all-island approach, the book's contributors address religion's interaction with several contemporary themes and debates in modern Ireland.

Author : Michael R. Lynn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000557459

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Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment by Michael R. Lynn Pdf

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the hunt for witches in Europe declined precipitously after 1650, and the intellectual justification for natural magic came under fire by 1700, belief in magic among the general population did not come to a sudden stop. The philosophes continued to take aim at magical practices, alongside religion, as examples of superstitions that an enlightened age needed to put behind them. In addition to a continuity of beliefs and practices, the eighteenth century also saw improvement and innovation in magical ideas, the understanding of ghosts, and attitudes toward witchcraft. The volume takes a broad geographical approach and includes essays focusing on Great Britain (England and Ireland), France, Germany, and Hungary. It also takes a wide approach to the subject and includes essays on astrology, alchemy, witchcraft, cunning folk, ghosts, treasure hunters, and purveyors of magic. With a broad chronological scope that ranges from the end of the seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, this volume is useful for undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars, and those with a general interest in magic, witchcraft, and spirits in the Enlightenment.

Author : Jay Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108956765

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Amulets in Magical Practice by Jay Johnston Pdf

This Element takes as its remit the production and use of amulets. The focus will be on amulets with no, or minimal, textual content like those comprising found stone, semi-precious gem and/or animal body parts. That is a material form that is unaccompanied by directive textual inscription. The analysis considers this materiality to understand its context of use including ritual and metaphysical operations. Through discussion of selected case studies from British, Celtic, and Scandinavian cultures, it demonstrates the associative range of meaning that enabled the attribution of power/agency to the amuletic object Uniquely, it will consider this material culture from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing together insights from the disciplines of cultural studies, religious studies, 'folk' studies, archaeology and Scandinavian studies. It develops the concept of 'trans-aniconism' to encapsulates an amulet's temporal relations and develops the proposition of 'landscape amulets.'

Author : Poppy Corbett,Anna Kisby Compton,William G. Pooley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009221078

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Creative Histories of Witchcraft by Poppy Corbett,Anna Kisby Compton,William G. Pooley Pdf

How can researchers study magic without destroying its mystery? Drawing on a collaborative project between the playwright Poppy Corbett, the poet Anna Kisby Compton, and the historian William G. Pooley, this Element presents thirteen tools for creative-academic research into magic, illustrated through case studies from France (1790–1940) and examples from creative outputs: write to discover; borrow forms; use the whole page; play with footnotes; erase the sources; write short; accumulate fragments; re-enact; improvise; use dialogue; change perspective; make methods of metaphors; use props. These tools are ways to 'untell' the dominant narratives that shape stereotypes of the 'witch' which frame belief in witchcraft as ignorant and outdated. Writing differently suggests ways to think and feel differently, to stay with the magic, rather than explaining it away. The Element includes practical creative exercises to try as well as research materials from French newspaper and trial sources from the period.

Author : Elizabeth Pérez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009032926

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The Gut by Elizabeth Pérez Pdf

If the head is religion, the gut is magic. Taking up this provocation, this Element delves into the digestive system within transnational Afro-Diasporic religions such as Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candomblé, and Cuban Lucumí (also called Santería). It draws from the ethnographic and archival record to probe the abdomen as a vital zone of sensory perception, amplified in countless divination verses, myths, rituals, and recipes for ethnomedical remedies. Provincializing the brain as only one locus of reason, it seeks to expand the notion of 'mind' and expose the anti-Blackness that still prevents Black Atlantic knowledges from being accepted as such. The Element examines gut feelings, knowledge, and beings in the belly; African precedents for the Afro-Diasporic gut-brain axis; post-sacrificial offerings in racist fantasy and everyday reality; and the strong stomachs and intestinal fortitude of religious ancestors. It concludes with a reflection on kinship and the spilling of guts in kitchenspaces.

Author : Steve Blamires
Publisher : Skylight Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781908011572

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The Irish Celtic Magical Tradition by Steve Blamires Pdf

The Irish Celtic Magical Tradition explores the wealth of spiritual philosophy locked into Celtic legend in The Battle of Moytura (Cath Maige Tuired), a historical-mythological account of the conflict, both physical and Otherworldly, between the Fomoire and the Tuatha de Danann. This legend contains within it the essence of the Celtic spiritual and magical system, from Creation Myth to practical instruction and information. Alongside a translation of The Battle of Moytura, Steve Blamires provides a series of keys to facilitate understanding of the legend and sets out an effective magical system based upon it, including interpretations of the symbolism, meditation exercises and suggestions for its practical use. The book offers a powerful and illuminating method of working with ancient Celtic legendary material in the context of modern magic.

Author : Fran Brearton,Alan Gillis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199561247

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry by Fran Brearton,Alan Gillis Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry consists of 40 essays by leading scholars and new researchers in the field. Beginning with W.B.Yeats, the figure who towers over the century's poetry, it includes chapters on the major poets to have emerged in Ireland over the last 100 years.

Author : Áine Mangaoang,John O'Flynn,Lonán Ó Briain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429811852

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Made in Ireland by Áine Mangaoang,John O'Flynn,Lonán Ó Briain Pdf

Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology and musicology of 20th- and 21st-century Irish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field and covers the major figures, styles and social contexts of popular music in Ireland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Irish popular music. The book is organized into three thematic sections: Music Industries and Historiographies, Roots and Routes and Scenes and Networks. The volume also includes a coda by Gerry Smyth, one of the most published authors on Irish popular music.

Author : Ziba Rashidian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137428653

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Representing the Modern Animal in Culture by Ziba Rashidian Pdf

Examining a wide range of works, from Gulliver's Travels to The Hunger Games, Representing the Modern Animal in Culture employs key theoretical apparatuses of Animal Studies to literary texts. Contributors address the multifarious modes of animal representation and the range of human-animal interactions that have emerged in the past 300 years.

Author : Liam Harte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191071058

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction by Liam Harte Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth assessments of the breadth and achievement of novelists and short story writers whose collective contribution to the evolution and modification of these unique art forms has been far out of proportion to Ireland's small size. The volume brings a variety of critical perspectives to bear on the development of modern Irish fiction, situating authors, texts, and genres in their social, intellectual, and literary historical contexts. The Handbook's coverage encompasses an expansive range of topics, including the recalcitrant atavisms of Irish Gothic fiction; nineteenth-century Irish women's fiction and its influence on emergent modernism and cultural nationalism; the diverse modes of irony, fabulism, and social realism that characterize the fiction of the Irish Literary Revival; the fearless aesthetic radicalism of James Joyce; the jolting narratological experiments of Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, and Máirtín Ó Cadhain; the fate of the realist and modernist traditions in the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Frank O'Connor, Seán O'Faoláin, and Mary Lavin, and in that of their ambivalent heirs, Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, and John Banville; the subversive treatment of sexuality and gender in Northern Irish women's fiction written during and after the Troubles; the often neglected genres of Irish crime fiction, science fiction, and fiction for children; the many-hued novelistic responses to the experiences of famine, revolution, and emigration; and the variety and vibrancy of post-millennial fiction from both parts of Ireland. Readably written and employing a wealth of original research, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction illuminates a distinguished literary tradition that has altered the shape of world literature.

Author : Colin Coulter,Steve Coleman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0719062314

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The End of Irish History? by Colin Coulter,Steve Coleman Pdf

Ireland appears to be in the throes of a remarkable process of social change. The purpose of this book is to systematically scrutinize the interpretations and prescriptions that inform the deceptively simple metaphor of the "Celtic Tiger." The standpoint of the book is that a more critical approach to the course of development being followed by the Republic is urgently required. The essays collected here set out to expose the fallacies that drive the fashionable rhetoric of Tigerhood. Four of these fallacies--that Ireland has cast off the chains of economic dependency, that everyone is benefiting from the economic recovery, that personal freedom and liberty are at an unprecedented level for all citizens, and that Ireland is also experiencing a period of strong cultural renaissance--are vigorously challenged.

Author : Levack, Brian Paul Levack
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Witchcraft
ISBN : 0815336721

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New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology: Witchcraft in the British Isles and New England by Levack, Brian Paul Levack Pdf

Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : Witchcraft in the British Isle
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1945147237

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Irish Witches, Magicians and Faeries by Michael Howard Pdf

The Fifth and final book in Michael Howard's 'Witchcraft in the British Isles' series, Irish Witches, Magicians and Faeries examines the history of Irish sorcery and its convergence with the witchcraft era. Including both historical personages and actual occult witchcraft practices over the centuries, the book also examines the importance of enduring faerie lore to folk magical practice.