Defining Magic

Defining Magic
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By:"Bernd-Christian Otto","Michael Stausberg"
"Religion"
Published on 2014-09-11 by Routledge

17 BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI ®\u003cb\u003eMagic\u003c/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eScience\u003c/b\u003e and Religion ̄ The scholarly \u003cbr\u003e\neducation of Bronislaw Kaspar Malinowski (b. 1884; d. 1942) is characterized by \u003cbr\u003e\nboth interdisciplinarity (he studied mathematics, physics, philosophy, psychology,\u003cbr\u003e\n ...

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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

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