Bever, Edward. <br/><br/>
Magic in the Modern World :  Strategies of Repression and Legitimization. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (216 pages) 
 - Magic in History Series .
 - Magic in History Series .
<br/><br/>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 Lįng) -- 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: Seišr 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271079899 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Magic.<br/>Magic-History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BF1611  / .M34 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>133.430903