Magic: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Magic: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780199588022

ISBN-10: 0199588023

ISBN-13: 9780199588022

Edition: 2012

Authors: Owen Davies

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Defining 'magic' is a maddening task. Over the last century numerous philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and theologians have attempted to pin down its essential meaning, sometimes analysing it in such complex and abstruse depth that it all but loses its sense altogether. For this reason, many people often shy away from providing a detailed definition, assuming it is generally understood as the human control of supernatural forces.'Magic' continues to pervade the popular imagination and idiom. People feel comfortable with its contemporary multiple meanings, unaware of the controversy, conflict, and debate its definition has caused over two and a half millennia. In common usage today…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 3/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 4.41" wide x 6.81" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English



Introduction



Anthropologies of magic



Historical perspectives



All in the mind?



Writing magic



Practising magic



Magic and the modern world


Conclusion