Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues
to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion,
anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. 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. The texts have been selected on the
strength of their success in defining magic as a category, their
impact on future scholarship, and their originality. The writings
are divided into chronological sections and each essay is
separately introduced for student readers. Together, these texts -
from Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies, and Anthropology -
reveal the breadth of critical approaches and responses to defining
what is magic. CONTRIBUTORS: Aquinas, Augustine, Helena Petrovna
Blavatsky, Dennis Diderot, Emile Durkheim, Edward Evans-Pritchard,
James Frazer, Susan Greenwood, Robin Horton, Edmund Leach, Gerardus
van der Leeuw, Christopher Lehrich, Bronislaw Malinowski, Marcel
Mauss, Agrippa von Nettesheim, Plato, Pliny, Plotin, Isidore of
Sevilla, Jesper Sorensen, Kimberley Stratton, Randall Styers,
Edward Tylor
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