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

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

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

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

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