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The End of Magic (Hardcover, New)
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The End of Magic (Hardcover, New)
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Throughout history, magic has been as widely and passionately
practiced as religion. But while religion continues to flourish,
magic stumbles towards extinction. What is magic? What does it do?
Why do people believe in magic? Ariel Glucklich finds the answers
to these questions in the streets of Banaras, India's most sacred
city, where hundreds of magicians still practice ancient
traditions, treating thousands of Hindu and Muslim patients of
every caste and sect. Through study and interpretation of the
Banarsi magical rites and those who partake in them, the author
presents fascinating living examples of magical practice, and
contrasts his findings with the major theories that have explained
(or explained away) magic over the last century. These theories, he
argues, ignore an essential sensory phenomenon which he calls
"magical experience": an extraordinary, though perfectly natural,
state of awareness through which magicians and their clients
perceive the effects of magic rituals.
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