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Magic in the Modern World : Strategies of Repression and Legitimization.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Magic in History SeriesPublisher: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271079899
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Magic in the Modern WorldDDC classification:
  • 133.430903
LOC classification:
  • BF1611 .M34 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
COVER Front -- Series Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction (Edward Bever and Randall Styers) -- Notes to Introduction -- PART I: Magic and the Making of Modernity -- Chapter 1: Bad Habits, or How Superstition Disappeared in the Modern World (Randall Styers) -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Descartes's Dreams, the Neuropsychology of Disbelief, and the Making of the Modern Self (Edward Bever) -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: Why Magic Cannot Be Falsified by Experiments (Benedek Láng) -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Witches as Liars: Witchcraft and Civilization in the Early American Republic (Adam Jortner) -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Part II: Magic in Modernity -- Chapter 5: Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg: The Contested Arena of Modern Enochian Angel Magic (Egil Asprem) -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (Erik Davis) -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7: Manning the High Seat: Seiðr as Self-Making in Contemporary Norse Neopaganisms (Megan Goodwin) -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8: Reviving Dead Names: Strategies of Legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the Dark Aesthetic (Dan Harms) -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- COVER Back.
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COVER Front -- Series Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction (Edward Bever and Randall Styers) -- Notes to Introduction -- PART I: Magic and the Making of Modernity -- Chapter 1: Bad Habits, or How Superstition Disappeared in the Modern World (Randall Styers) -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Descartes's Dreams, the Neuropsychology of Disbelief, and the Making of the Modern Self (Edward Bever) -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: Why Magic Cannot Be Falsified by Experiments (Benedek Láng) -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Witches as Liars: Witchcraft and Civilization in the Early American Republic (Adam Jortner) -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Part II: Magic in Modernity -- Chapter 5: Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg: The Contested Arena of Modern Enochian Angel Magic (Egil Asprem) -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (Erik Davis) -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7: Manning the High Seat: Seiðr as Self-Making in Contemporary Norse Neopaganisms (Megan Goodwin) -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8: Reviving Dead Names: Strategies of Legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the Dark Aesthetic (Dan Harms) -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- COVER Back.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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