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Author : Stanley J. Tambiah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 1990-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521376310
This accessible and illuminating book explores the classical opposition between magic, science and religion.
Author : Stanley J. Tambiah
Publisher :
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 1990-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521374866
This accessible and illuminating book explores the classical opposition between magic, science and religion.
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Page : 187 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 1984-12-19
Category : Education
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The author takes into account the various views of religion which Tylor, Frazer, Marett, and Durkheim have given and goes on from there to provide his own conception that religion and magic are ways men have to make the world acceptable.
Author : Randall Styers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0195169417
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.
Author : Ira Livingston
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9004358072
Magic Science Religion explores surprising intersections among the three meaning-making and world-making practices named in the title. Through colorful examples, the book reveals circuitous ways that social, cultural and natural systems connect, enabling real kinds of magic to operate. Among the many case studies are accounts of how an eighteenth-century actor gave his audience goosebumps; how painters, poets, and pool sharks use nonlinearity in working their magics; how the first vertebrates gained consciousness; how plants fine-tuned human color vision; and the necessarily magical element of activism that builds on the conviction that "another future is possible" while working to push self-fulfilling prophecy into political action.
Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : Randall Styers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0190287926
Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to distinctly modern models of religion and science. Yet this notion of magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. In Making Magic, Randall Styers seeks to account for the extraordinary vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that this persistence can best be explained in light of the Western drive to establish and secure distinctive norms for modern identity, norms based on narrow forms of instrumental rationality, industrious labor, rigidly defined sexual roles, and the containment of wayward forms of desire. Magic has served to designate a form of alterity or deviance against which dominant Western notions of appropriate religious piety, legitimate scientific rationality, and orderly social relations are brought into relief. Scholars have found magic an invaluable tool in their efforts to define the appropriate boundaries of religion and science. On a broader level, says Styers, magical thinking has served as an important foil for modernity itself. Debates over the nature of magic have offered a particularly rich site at which scholars have worked to define and to contest the nature of modernity and norms for life in the modern world.
Author : Bernd-Christian Otto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317545044
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
Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614277798
2015 Reprint of 1954 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In his handling of science, magic, and religion, Malinowski essentially accepted the traditional Western conception of a dual reality-the reality of the natural world, grounded in observation and rational procedures that lead to mastery, and supernatural reality, grounded in emotional needs that give rise to faith. Unlike Frazer, for example, Malinowski derived science not from magic but from man's capacity to organize knowledge, as demonstrated by Trobriand technical skills in gardening, shipbuilding, etc. In contrast, he treated magic, which coexisted with these skills, as an organized response to a sense of limitation and impotence in the face of danger, difficulty, and frustration. Again, he differentiated between magic and religion in defining magical systems as essentially pragmatic in their aims and religious systems as self-fulfilling rituals organized, for example, around life crises.