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Author: Edward Bever (Director of Professional Studies, SUNY College At Old Westbury) , Randall Styers (Associate Professor of Religion and Culture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9780271077772
ISBN 10: 0271077778
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 18 April 2017
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Contents Introduction, Edward Bever and Randall Styers Magic and the Making of Modernity Chapter 1, “Bad Habits, or, How Superstition Disappeared in the Modern World,” Randall Styers Chapter 2, “Descartes’ Dreams, the Neuropsychology of Disbelief, and the Making of the Modern Self,” Edward Bever Chapter 3, “Why Magic Cannot Be Falsified by Experiments,” Benedek Láng Chapter 4, “Witches as Liars: Witchcraft and Civilization in the Early American Republic,” Adam Jortner Magic in Modernity Chapter 5, “Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg: The Contested Arena of Modern Enochian Angel Magic,” Egil Asprem Chapter 6, “Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the ‘Method of Science,’” Erik Davis Chapter 7, “Manning the High Seat: Seidr as Self-Making in Contemporary NorseNeopaganisms,” Megan Goodwin Chapter 8, “Reviving Dead Names: Strategies of Legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the Dark Aesthetic,” Dan Harms Selected Bibliography Notes List of Contributors Index
Reviews
Ever since the nineteenth century, it has been a staple of the discourse on modern society that magic and supernaturalism were on their way out. The contributors to this splendid volume explain why this idea has been so persuasive, and why it is utterly wrong. --Olav Hammer, author of Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age
Ever since the nineteenth century, it has been a staple of the discourse on modern society that magic and supernaturalism were on their way out. The contributors to this splendid volume explain why this idea has been so persuasive, and why it is utterly wrong. --Olav Hammer, author of Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age Ever since the nineteenth century, it has been a staple of the discourse on modern society that magic and supernaturalism were on their way out. The contributors to this splendid volume explain why this idea has been so persuasive, and why it is utterly wrong. Olav Hammer, author of Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age
Author Information
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.
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