Magic In Western Culture
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Magic In Western Culture
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Author : Brian P. Copenhaver
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-09
Magic In Western Culture written by Brian P. Copenhaver and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-09 with History categories.
The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and Marsilio Ficino, this richly illustrated and groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical.
Religion And Magic In Western Culture
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Author : Daniel Dubuisson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Religion And Magic In Western Culture written by Daniel Dubuisson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Philosophy categories.
In this book, Daniel Dubuisson analyses the long history of the dichotomy between religion and magic, as well as the great stakes of power which it has concealed over the centuries.
Magic Mystery And Science
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Author : Dan Burton
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2004
Magic Mystery And Science written by Dan Burton and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
"[P.D. Ouspensky's] yearning for a transcendent, timeless reality—one that cancels out physical disintegration and death—figures into science at some fundamental level. Einstein found solace in his theory of relativity, which suggested to him that events are ever-present in the space-time continuum. When his friend Michele Besso passed on shortly before his own death, he wrote: 'For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one.'" —from Magic, Mystery, and Science The triumph of science would appear to have routed all other explanations of reality. No longer does astrology or alchemy or magic have the power to explain the world to us. Yet at one time each of these systems of belief, like religion, helped shed light on what was dark to our understanding. Nor have the occult arts disappeared. We humans have a need for mystery and a sense of the infinite. Magic, Mystery, and Science presents the occult as a "third stream" of belief, as important to the shaping of Western civilization as Greek rationalism or Judeo-Christianity. The occult seeks explanations in a world that is living and intelligent—quite unlike the one supposed by science. By taking these beliefs seriously, while keeping an eye on science, this book aims to capture some of the power of the occult. Readers will discover that the occult has a long history that reaches back to Babylonia and ancient Egypt. It proceeds alongside, and frequently mingles with, religion and science. From the Egyptian Book of the Dead to New Age beliefs, from Plato to Adolf Hitler, occult ways of knowing have been used—and hideously abused—to explain a world that still tempts us with the knowledge of its dark secrets.
Magic Witchcraft And The Otherworld
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Author : Susan Greenwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Magic Witchcraft And The Otherworld written by Susan Greenwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Magic categories.
"Anthropology's long and complex relationship to magic has been strongly influenced by western science and notions of rationality. This book takes a refreshing new look at modern magic as practised by contemporary Pagans in Britain. It focuses on what Pagans see as the essence of magic - a communication with an otherworldly reality. Examining issues of identity, gender and morality, the author argues that the otherworld forms a central defining characteristic of magical practice. Integrating an experiential ethnographic approach with an analysis of magic, this book asks penetrating questions about the nature of otherworldly knowledge and argues that our scientific frameworks need re-envisioning. It is unique in providing an insider's view of how magic is practised in contemporary western culture."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
New Age Religion And Western Culture
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Author : Wouter J. Hanegraaff
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
New Age Religion And Western Culture written by Wouter J. Hanegraaff and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Religion categories.
Presents the first systematic analysis of the structure and beliefs of the New Age movement, and the historical emergence of "New Age" as a secularized version of Western esoteric traditions.
Magic Lands
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Author : John M. Findlay
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1993-09-22
Magic Lands written by John M. Findlay and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-09-22 with History categories.
The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes—Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair—John Findlay shows how each created a sense of cohesion and sustained people's belief in their superior urban environment. This first book-length study of the urban West after 1940 argues that Westerners deliberately tried to build cities that differed radically from their eastern counterparts. In 1954, Walt Disney began building the world's first theme park, using Hollywood's movie-making techniques. The creators of Stanford Industrial Park were more hesitant in their approach to a conceptually organized environment, but by the mid-1960s the Park was the nation's prototypical "research park" and the intellectual downtown for the high-technology region that became Silicon Valley. In 1960, on the outskirts of Phoenix, Del E. Webb built Sun City, the largest, most influential retirement community in the United States. Another innovative cityscape arose from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and provided a futuristic, somewhat fanciful vision of modern life. These four became "magic lands" that provided an antidote to the apparent chaos of their respective urban milieus. Exemplars of a new lifestyle, they are landmarks on the changing cultural landscape of postwar America.
Making Magic
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Author : Randall Styers
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-01-15
Making Magic written by Randall Styers and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-15 with Social Science categories.
Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to distinctly modern models of religion and science. Yet this notion of magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. In Making Magic, Randall Styers seeks to account for the extraordinary vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that this persistence can best be explained in light of the Western drive to establish and secure distinctive norms for modern identity, norms based on narrow forms of instrumental rationality, industrious labor, rigidly defined sexual roles, and the containment of wayward forms of desire. Magic has served to designate a form of alterity or deviance against which dominant Western notions of appropriate religious piety, legitimate scientific rationality, and orderly social relations are brought into relief. Scholars have found magic an invaluable tool in their efforts to define the appropriate boundaries of religion and science. On a broader level, says Styers, magical thinking has served as an important foil for modernity itself. Debates over the nature of magic have offered a particularly rich site at which scholars have worked to define and to contest the nature of modernity and norms for life in the modern world.
Transcendental Magic
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Author : Eliphas Levi
language : en
Publisher: Cornerstone Book Publishers
Release Date : 2014-08-15
Transcendental Magic written by Eliphas Levi and has been published by Cornerstone Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Eliphas Levi's 1854, "Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie" is often said to be the most influential book on Magic in Western culture since the Renaissance. Arthur Edward Waite's 1896 English translation of the work changed the title to "Transcendental Magic" and further cemented Levi's enormous influence as as esoteric leader and writer. This is Levi's most popular and talked about work. Index. Photographic reproduction of the 1896 first English translation.
Magic In The Cloister
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Author : Sophie Page
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2013-10-21
Magic In The Cloister written by Sophie Page and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-21 with Religion categories.
During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine’s in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications for the practice of magic and books in which works of magic were copied side by side with works of more licit genres. In Magic in the Cloister, Sophie Page uses this collection to explore the gradual shift toward more positive attitudes to magical texts and ideas in medieval Europe. She examines what attracted monks to magic texts, in spite of the dangers involved in studying condemned works, and how the monks combined magic with their intellectual interests and monastic life. By showing how it was possible for religious insiders to integrate magical studies with their orthodox worldview, Magic in the Cloister contributes to a broader understanding of the role of magical texts and ideas and their acceptance in the late Middle Ages.
Stranger Magic
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Author : Marina Warner
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-03-03
Stranger Magic written by Marina Warner and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.