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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > Occult studies > Witchcraft
This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the
anthropological study of religion. Stein and Stein examine
religious expression from a cross-cultural perspective and expose
students to the varying complexity of world religions. The chapters
incorporate key theoretical concepts and a rich range of
ethnographic material. The fourth edition of The Anthropology of
Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft offers: * increased coverage of new
religious movements, fundamentalism, and religion and
conflict/violence; * fresh case study material with examples drawn
from around the globe; * further resources via a comprehensive
companion website. This is an essential guide for students
encountering anthropology of religion for the first time.
This book will guide you if you wish to read more about hedge
witchcraft as a pathway, or are already following such a path and
wish to progress. It only has a little about hedge riding as this
book has too small a scope to include it. Please read the
accompanying book in the Pagan Portal series, Hedge Riding.
Money, magic and the theatre were powerful forces in early modern
England. Money was acquiring an independent, efficacious agency, as
the growth of usury allowed financial signs to reproduce without
human intervention. Magic was coming to seem Satanic, as the
manipulation of magical signs to performative purposes was
criminalized in the great 'witch craze.' And the commercial, public
theatre was emerging - to great controversy - as the perfect medium
to display, analyse and evaluate the newly autonomous power of
representation in its financial, magical and aesthetic forms. Money
and Magic in Early Modern Drama is especially timely in the current
era of financial deregulation and derivatives, which are just as
mysterious and occult in their operations as the germinal finance
of 16th-century London. Chapters examine the convergence of money
and magic in a wide range of early modern drama, from the anonymous
Mankind through Christopher Marlowe to Ben Jonson, concentrating on
such plays as The Alchemist, The New Inn and The Staple of News.
Several focus on Shakespeare, whose analysis of the relations
between finance, witchcraft and theatricality is particularly acute
in Timon of Athens, The Comedy of Errors, Antony and Cleopatra and
The Winter's Tale.
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