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ISBN10: 0195169417, ISBN13: 9780195169416, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover First Edition Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to distinctly modern models of religion and science. Yet this notion of magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. In Making Magic, Randall Styers seeks to account for the extraordinary vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. [New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]
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New York, NY Oxford University Press, USA 2004 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 304 p. AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion.
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ISBN10: 0195169417, ISBN13: 9780195169416, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to distinctly modern models of religion and science. Yet this notion of magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. In MakingMagic, Randall Styers seeks to account for the extraordinary vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that this persistence can bestbe explained in light of the Western drive to establish and secure distinctive norms for modern identity, norms based on narrow forms of instrumental rationality, industrious labor, rigidly defined sexual roles, and the containment of wayward forms of desire. Magic has served to designate a form of alterity or deviance against which dominant Western notions of appropriate religious piety, legitimate scientific rationality, and orderly social relations are brought into relief. Scholars havefound magic an invaluable tool in their efforts to define the appropriate boundaries of religion and science. On a broader level, says Styers, magical thinking has served as an important foil for modernityitself. Deb ...
New York, NY Oxford University Press, USA 2004 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 304 p. AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion.
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