Magic in the modern world : strategies of repression and legitimization / edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bever, Edward, editor.

Styers, Randall, editor.

Series:

Magic in history.

The magic in history series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magic.

Magic--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 208 pages).

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"A collection of essays on various aspects of the position of magic in the modern world. Essays explore the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and the ways in which modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimate their practices"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Bad habits, or how superstition disappeared in the modern world / Randall Styers

Descartes' dreams, the neuropsychology of disbelief, and the making of the modern self / Edward Bever

Why magic cannot be falsified by experiments / Benedek Láng

Witches as liars : witchcraft and civilization in the early American republic / Adam Jortner

Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg : the contested arena of modern Enochian angel magic / Egil Asprem

Babalon launching : Jack Parsons, rocketry, and the 'method of science' / Erik Davis

Manning the high seat : Seir as self-making in contemporary Norse neopaganisms / Megan Goodwin

Reviving dead names : strategies of legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the dark aesthetic / Dan Harms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271079899

0271079894

OCLC:

1080549916