Defining magic :
Defining magic : a reader /
edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Michael Stausberg.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Critical categories in the study of religion .
- Critical categories in the study of religion. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Alcibiades I, and Laws / Plato -- Historia naturalis / Pliny the Elder -- Enneads / Plotinus -- City of God, and On Christian doctrine / Augustine of Hippo -- Etymologiae / Isidore of Seville -- Suda / Anonymous -- Summa theologica / Thomas Aquinas -- Three books of occult philosophy / Agrippa of Nettesheim -- Encyclopédie / Denis Diderot -- Theosophical glossary / Helena Petrovna Blavatsky -- Primitive culture / Edward B. Tylor -- The golden bough / James George Frazer -- A general theory of magic / Marcel Mauss and Henri Hubert -- The elementary forms of religious life / Émile Durkheim -- Religion in essence and manifestation / Gerardus van der Leeuw -- Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande / Edward E. Evans-Pritchard -- Magic, science and religion / Bronislaw Malinowski -- African traditional thought and Western science / Robin Horton -- Form and meaning of magical acts: a point of view / Stanley J. Tambiah -- Culture and communication / Edmund R. Leach -- Magical consciousness: a legitimate form of knowledge / Susan Greenwood -- Magic in theoretical practice / Christopher I. Lehrich -- Magic reconsidered: towards a scientifically valid concept of magic / Jesper Sørensen -- Magic discourse in the ancient world / Kimberly B. Stratton -- Magic and the play of power / Randall Styers.
Magic has been an important term in western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts which examine 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 their strength in defining magic as a category, their impact on future scholarship, and their originality. The writings are divided into chronological sections with each essay 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.
9781844657711 (ebook)
Magic--History--Sources.
Electronic books.
BF1589 / .D48 2013
133.4/3
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Alcibiades I, and Laws / Plato -- Historia naturalis / Pliny the Elder -- Enneads / Plotinus -- City of God, and On Christian doctrine / Augustine of Hippo -- Etymologiae / Isidore of Seville -- Suda / Anonymous -- Summa theologica / Thomas Aquinas -- Three books of occult philosophy / Agrippa of Nettesheim -- Encyclopédie / Denis Diderot -- Theosophical glossary / Helena Petrovna Blavatsky -- Primitive culture / Edward B. Tylor -- The golden bough / James George Frazer -- A general theory of magic / Marcel Mauss and Henri Hubert -- The elementary forms of religious life / Émile Durkheim -- Religion in essence and manifestation / Gerardus van der Leeuw -- Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande / Edward E. Evans-Pritchard -- Magic, science and religion / Bronislaw Malinowski -- African traditional thought and Western science / Robin Horton -- Form and meaning of magical acts: a point of view / Stanley J. Tambiah -- Culture and communication / Edmund R. Leach -- Magical consciousness: a legitimate form of knowledge / Susan Greenwood -- Magic in theoretical practice / Christopher I. Lehrich -- Magic reconsidered: towards a scientifically valid concept of magic / Jesper Sørensen -- Magic discourse in the ancient world / Kimberly B. Stratton -- Magic and the play of power / Randall Styers.
Magic has been an important term in western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts which examine 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 their strength in defining magic as a category, their impact on future scholarship, and their originality. The writings are divided into chronological sections with each essay 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.
9781844657711 (ebook)
Magic--History--Sources.
Electronic books.
BF1589 / .D48 2013
133.4/3