Magic in the modern world: strategies of repression and legitimization
Bad habits, or how superstition disappeared in the modern world / Randall Styers -- Descartes' dreams, the neuropsychology of disbelief, and the making of the modern self / Edward Bever -- Why magic cannot be falsified by experiments / Benedek Láng -- Witches as liars : witchcraft and civilizat...
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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Published: |
University Park, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2017]
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In: | Year: 2017 |
Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
Series/Journal: | The magic in history series
Magic in history |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Magic
/ History 1500-2000
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RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements |
Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Magic B Magic History |
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Table of Contents |
Summary: | Bad habits, or how superstition disappeared in the modern world / Randall Styers -- Descartes' dreams, the neuropsychology of disbelief, and the making of the modern self / Edward Bever -- Why magic cannot be falsified by experiments / Benedek Láng -- Witches as liars : witchcraft and civilization in the early American republic / Adam Jortner -- Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg : the contested arena of modern Enochian angel magic / Egil Asprem -- Babalon launching : Jack Parsons, rocketry, and the 'method of science' / Erik Davis -- Manning the high seat : Seiðr as self-making in contemporary Norse neopaganisms / Megan Goodwin -- Reviving dead names : strategies of legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the dark aesthetic / Dan Harms Bad habits, or how superstition disappeared in the modern world / Randall Styers -- Descartes' dreams, the neuropsychology of disbelief, and the making of the modern self / Edward Bever -- Why magic cannot be falsified by experiments / Benedek Láng -- Witches as liars : witchcraft and civilization in the early American republic / Adam Jortner -- Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg : the contested arena of modern Enochian angel magic / Egil Asprem -- Babalon launching : Jack Parsons, rocketry, and the 'method of science' / Erik Davis -- Manning the high seat : Seiðr as self-making in contemporary Norse neopaganisms / Megan Goodwin -- Reviving dead names : strategies of legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the dark aesthetic / Dan Harms |
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Item Description: | Enthält bibliografische Referenzen und Index |
ISBN: | 0271077778 |