Magic in the modern world: strategies of repression and legitimization

Bad habits, or how superstition disappeared in the modern world / Randall Styers -- Descartes' dreams, the neuropsychology of disbelief, and the making of the modern self / Edward Bever -- Why magic cannot be falsified by experiments / Benedek Láng -- Witches as liars : witchcraft and civilizat...

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Collaborateurs: Bever, Edward Watts Morton 1954- (Éditeur intellectuel) ; Styers, Randall 1958- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Type de support: Imprimé Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: University Park, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University Press [2017]
Dans:Année: 2017
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Collection/Revue:The magic in history series
Magic in history
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Magie / Histoire 1500-2000
Classifications IxTheo:AG Vie religieuse
AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux
Sujets non-standardisés:B Magic
B Magic History
B Recueil d'articles
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Résumé:Bad habits, or how superstition disappeared in the modern world / Randall Styers -- Descartes' dreams, the neuropsychology of disbelief, and the making of the modern self / Edward Bever -- Why magic cannot be falsified by experiments / Benedek Láng -- Witches as liars : witchcraft and civilization in the early American republic / Adam Jortner -- Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg : the contested arena of modern Enochian angel magic / Egil Asprem -- Babalon launching : Jack Parsons, rocketry, and the 'method of science' / Erik Davis -- Manning the high seat : Seiðr as self-making in contemporary Norse neopaganisms / Megan Goodwin -- Reviving dead names : strategies of legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the dark aesthetic / Dan Harms
Bad habits, or how superstition disappeared in the modern world / Randall Styers -- Descartes' dreams, the neuropsychology of disbelief, and the making of the modern self / Edward Bever -- Why magic cannot be falsified by experiments / Benedek Láng -- Witches as liars : witchcraft and civilization in the early American republic / Adam Jortner -- Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg : the contested arena of modern Enochian angel magic / Egil Asprem -- Babalon launching : Jack Parsons, rocketry, and the 'method of science' / Erik Davis -- Manning the high seat : Seiðr as self-making in contemporary Norse neopaganisms / Megan Goodwin -- Reviving dead names : strategies of legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the dark aesthetic / Dan Harms
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ISBN:0271077778