TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bever,Edward
AU  - Styers,Randall
TI  - Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization
T2  - Magic in History Series
SN  - 9780271079899
AV  - BF1611 .M34 2017
U1  - 133.430903 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - University Park, PA
PB  - Pennsylvania State University Press
KW  - Magic
KW  - Magic-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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