Magic in the Modern World - Strategies of Repression and Legitimization

A collection of essays on various aspects of the position of magic in the modern world. Essays explore the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and the ways in which modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimate their practices.

About the author

Edward Bever is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Old Westbury and the author of The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition, and Everyday Life.Randall Styers is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World.

Summary

A collection of essays on various aspects of the position of magic in the modern world. Essays explore the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and the ways in which modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimate their practices.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Bever
• Assisted by: Edward Bever (Editor), Edward (Director of Professional Studies Bever (Editor), Bever Edward (Editor), Randall Styers (Editor), Randall (Associate Professor of Religion and Culture Styers (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2017
• EAN: 9780271077772
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07777-2
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Magic in History; Magic in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; RELIGION / History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Magick Studies, History of Religion, Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General