Making magic [electronic resource] : religion, magic, and science in the modern world / Randall Styers.
Series: Reflection and theory in the study of religionPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 290 p.)ISBN:- 0195151070
- 133.430903 22
- BF1611

Randall Styers seeks to account for the vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that it can best be explained in light of the European and Euro-American drive to establish and secure their own identity as normative.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.