Religion Science And Magic In Concert And In Conflict
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Religion Science And Magic In Concert And In Conflict
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Author : Jacob Neusner Professor of Religion University of South Florida
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1989-06-01
Religion Science And Magic In Concert And In Conflict written by Jacob Neusner Professor of Religion University of South Florida and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-06-01 with Christianity categories.
Every culture makes the distinction between "true religion" and magic, regarding one action and its result as "miraculous," while rejecting another as the work of the devil. Surveying such topics as Babylonian witchcraft, Jesus the magician, magic in Hasidism and Kabbalah, and magic in Anglo-Saxon England, these ten essays provide a rigrous examination of the history of this distinction in Christianity and Judaism. Written by such distinguished scholars as Jacob Neusner, Hans Penner, Howard Kee, Tzvi Abusch, Susan R. Garrett, and Moshe Idel, the essays explore a broad range of topics, including how certain social groups sort out approved practices and beliefs from those that are disapproved--providing fresh insight into how groups define themselves; "magic" as an insider's term for the outsider's religion; and the tendency of religious traditions to exclude the magical. In addition the collection provides illuminating social, cultural, and anthropological explanations for the prominence of the magical in certain periods and literature.
Religion Science And Magic
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Author : Jacob Neusner
language : en
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Release Date : 1989
Religion Science And Magic written by Jacob Neusner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.
Religion Science And Magic
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Author : Jacob Neusner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1989
Religion Science And Magic written by Jacob Neusner and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Christianity categories.
Every culture makes the distinction between "true religion" and magic, regarding one action and its result as "miraculous," while rejecting another as the work of the devil. Surveying such topics as Babylonian witchcraft, Jesus the magician, magic in Hasidism and Kabbalah, and magic in Anglo-Saxon England, these ten essays provide a rigorous examination of the history of this distinction in Christianity and Judaism. Written by such distinguished scholars as Jacob Neusner, Hans Penner, Howard Kee, Tzvi Abusch, Susan R. Garrett, and Moshe Idel, the essays explore a broad range of topics, including how certain social groups sort out approved practices and beliefs from those that are disapproved--providing fresh insight into how groups define themselves; "magic" as an insider's term for the outsider's religion; and the tendency of religious traditions to exclude the magical. In addition the collection provides illuminating social, cultural, and anthropological explanations for the prominence of the magical in certain periods and literatures.
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.
Neoplatonism And Indian Philosophy
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Author : Paulos Gregorios
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Neoplatonism And Indian Philosophy written by Paulos Gregorios and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
Explores connections between Neoplatonism and Indian philosophy.
Magic Science And Religion And The Scope Of Rationality
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Author : Stanley J. Tambiah
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1990-03-22
Magic Science And Religion And The Scope Of Rationality written by Stanley J. Tambiah 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 1990-03-22 with Philosophy categories.
This accessible and illuminating book explores the classical opposition between magic, science and religion.
Religion And Scientific Naturalism
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Author : David Ray Griffin
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2000-05-11
Religion And Scientific Naturalism written by David Ray Griffin and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-11 with Science categories.
Winner of the 2000 Scientific and Medical Network Book Prize In this book, David Ray Griffin argues that the perceived conflict between science and religion is based upon a double mistake-the assumption that religion requires supernaturalism and that scientific naturalism requires atheism and materialism.
Locating The Past Discovering The Present
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Author : David Gay
language : en
Publisher: University of Alberta
Release Date : 2010-07-30
Locating The Past Discovering The Present written by David Gay and has been published by University of Alberta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-30 with Art categories.
Comparative, interdisciplinary examination of the production of religious ideas and images over time and place.
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.
Communicating Science
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Author : Nicholas Russell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010
Communicating Science written by Nicholas Russell 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 2010 with Business & Economics categories.
Ideal for students and practitioners in science, engineering and medicine, this book gives an insight into science's place in society.