Bernd-Christian Otto, Michael Stausberg

Defining Magic (eBook, ePUB)

A Reader

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317545033
• Artikelnr.: 41506193

Autorenporträt

Bernd-Christian Otto is Postdoctoral Researcher of the Study of Religion at the University of Erfurt, Germany, and has published a monograph on the conceptual history of magic. Michael Stausberg is Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen. His most recent publications include Religion and Tourism, Zarathrustra amd Zoroastrianism, and, as co-editor, Contemporary Theories of Religion and Theorizing Rituals.

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction Part I: Historical Sources Introduction 1. Alcibades I and Laws
Plato 2. Historia Naturalis
Pliny the Elder 3. Enneads
Plotinus 4. City of God and On Christian Doctrine
Augustine of Hippo 5. Etymologiae
Isidore of Seville 6. Suda
Anonymous 7. Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas 8. Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Agrippa of Nettesheim 9. Encyclopedie
Denis Diderot 10. Theosophical Glossary
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Part II: Foundational Works of the Academic Debate Introduction 11. Primitive Culture
Edward B. Tylor 12. The Golden Bough
James George Frazer 13. "A General Theory of Magic"
Marcel Mauss and Henri Hubert 14. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Emile Durkheim Part III: Mid-Twentieth-Century Approaches to Magic Introduction 15. Religion in Essence and Manifestation
Gerardus van der Leeuw 16. Witchcraft
Oracles and Magic among the Azande
Edward E. Evans-Pritchard 17. "Magic
Science and Religion"
Bronislaw Malinowski 18. "African Traditional Thought and Western Science"
Robin Horton 19. "Form and Meaning of Magical Acts: A Point of View"
Stanley J. Tambiah 20. Culture and Communication
Edmund R. Leach Part IV: Contemporary Voices Introduction 21. "Magical Consciousness: A Legitimate Form of Knowledge"
Susan Greenwood 22. "Magic in Theoretical Practice"
Christopher I. Lehrich 23. "Magic Reconsidered: Towards a Scientifically Valid Concept of Magic"
Jesper Sorensen 24 "Magic Discourse in the Ancient World"
Kimberly B. Stratton 25. "Magic and the Play of Power"
Randall Styers