Magic and Modernity

Download or Read eBook Magic and Modernity PDF written by Birgit Meyer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.

Author	: Birgit Meyer
Publisher	: Stanford University Press
Total Pages	: 404
Release	: 2003
ISBN-10	: 0804744645
ISBN-13	: 9780804744645
Rating	: 4/5 (45 Downloads)

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Book Synopsis Magic and Modernity by : Birgit Meyer

Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore comparatively how magic—usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern—is also at home in modernity.

Magic and Modernity Related Books

Language: en
Pages: 404

Magic and Modernity

Authors: Birgit Meyer

Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit

Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is the first book to explore comparatively how magic—usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern—is also at home in modernity.

Language: en
Pages: 428

The Myth of Disenchantment

Authors: Jason Ananda Josephson Storm

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-16 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Stor

Language: en
Pages: 238

Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France

Authors: Ms Amy Wygant

Categories: Literary Criticism

Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Bringing together the previously disparate fields of historical witchcraft, reception history, poetics, and psychoanalysis, this innovative study shows how the

Language: en
Pages: 206

Tourism, Magic and Modernity

Authors: David Picard

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in

Language: en
Pages: 215

Magic in the Modern World

Authors: Edward Bever

Categories: Religion

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-18 - Publisher: Penn State Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit oppositi