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Title Magic in the modern world : strategies of repression and legitimization / edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers
Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 208 pages)
Series The magic in history series
Magic in history.
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 : Seiðr 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
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
Analysis Wiccan
disenchantment
legitimization
modernity
supernatural
superstition
twentieth century
witchcraft
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Magic.
Magic -- History
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
RELIGION -- History.
Magic
Magic.
Magic -- History.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bever, Edward, editor
Styers, Randall, editor
ISBN 9780271079899
0271079894