An Inventory of Fear The Witch: A History of Fear from Ancient Times to the Present, Ronald Hutton, Yale University Press, 2017 (ISBN 978-0-3002-2904-2), xv + 360 pp., hb 30 The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic, Owen Davies (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2017 (ISBN 978-0-19-960844-7), xiv + 314 pp., hb £25

A study of two recent contributions to the scholarship on witchcraft and magic uncovers an uncomfortable dilemma. On the one hand, authors argue that magical practices should now be interpreted on their own premises; on the other hand, attempts to take seriously the experience of magic are bracketed...

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Main Author: Kotva, Simone (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2018
In: Reviews in religion and theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 194-200
Review of:The Oxford illustrated history of witchcraft and magic (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017) (Kotva, Simone)
Further subjects:B Fear
B Book review
B Ronald Hutton
B Magic
B Religion
B Anthropology
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