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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
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
History is one of the most important cultural tools to make sense
of one's situation, to establish identity, define otherness, and
explain change. This is the first systematic scholarly study that
analyses the complex relationship between history and religion,
taking into account religious groups both as producers of
historical narratives as well as distinct topics of historiography.
Coming from different disciplines, the authors of this volume ask
under which conditions and with what consequences religions are
historicised. How do religious groups employ historical narratives
in the construction of their identities? What are the biases and
elisions of current analytical and descriptive frames in the
History of Religion? The volume aims at initiating a comparative
historiography of religion and combines disciplinary competences of
Religious Studies and the History of Religion, Confessional
Theologies, History, History of Science, and Literary Studies. By
applying literary comparison and historical contextualization to
those texts that have been used as central documents for histories
of individual religions, their historiographic themes, tools and
strategies are analysed. The comparative approach addresses
circum-Mediterranean and European as well as Asian religious
traditions from the first millennium BCE to the present and deals
with topics such as the origins of religious historiography, the
practices of writing and the transformation of narratives.
This book presents the story of a unique collection of 140
manuscripts of 'learned magic' that was sold for a fantastic sum
within the clandestine channels of the German book trade in the
early eighteenth century. The book will interpret this collection
from two angles - as an artefact of the early modern book market as
well as the longue-duree tradition of Western learned magic -, thus
taking a new stance towards scribal texts that are often regarded
as eccentric, peripheral, or marginal. The study is structured by
the apparent exceptionality, scarcity, and illegality of the
collection, and provides chapters on clandestine activities in
European book markets, questions of censorship regimes and
efficiency, the use of manuscripts in an age of print, and the
history of learned magic in early modern Europe. As the collection
has survived till this day in Leipzig University Library, the book
provides a critical edition of the 1710 selling catalogue, which
includes a brief content analysis of all extant manuscripts. The
study will be of interest to scholars and students from a variety
of fields, such as early modern book history, the history of magic,
cultural history, the sociology of religion, or the study of
Western esotericism.
This book (the authors revised dissertation) analyzes the history
of the concept of magic spanning about 2,500 years. Following an
introduction discussing the problem of academic definitions of
magic in general, the book presents the comprehensive history of
the concept of magic for the first time, from its origins in
antiquity to the 20th century. Polemic texts with an external
perspective are included in equal measure along with authors that
described and understood themselves as "magicians" in Western
cultural history.
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Magie (German, Paperback)
Bernd-Christian Otto
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