Magic, Pretended Miracles, and Remarkable Natural Phenomena

Magic, Pretended Miracles, and Remarkable Natural Phenomena

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Divided into nine chapters, this book is intended to debunk some natural or man-made phenomena that were often attributed to being creations of magic. Some examples provided in the book were turning unground coffee into a steaming cup of one and automatons such as wooden doves.


A Thematic Access-Oriented Bibliography of Jesus’s Resurrection

A Thematic Access-Oriented Bibliography of Jesus’s Resurrection

Author: Michael J. Alter

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-12-31

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 1725252759

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The keystone of Christianity is Jesus's physical, bodily resurrection. Present-day scholars can be significantly challenged as they forage through voluminous documents on the resurrection of Jesus. The literature measures well over seven thousand sources in English-language books alone. This makes finding specific sources that are most relevant for specific scholarly purposes an arduous task. Even when a specific book is relevant, finding the parts of the book that are most relevant to the resurrection rather than other topics often requires additional effort. A Thematic Access-Oriented Bibliography of Jesus's Resurrection addresses these challenges in several ways. First, the bibliography organizes more than seven thousand English sources into twelve main categories and then thirty-four subcategories, which are designed to help you find the most relevant literature quickly and efficiently. Embedded are pro and con arguments which support efficient access through brief annotations and then annotate the diversity and complexity of the field of religion by including sources that represent a diverse range of views: theistic (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc.), agnostic, and nontheistic. The objective of this bibliography is to provide convenient access to relevant sources from a variety of perspectives, allowing you to browse or find the one source accurately and with ease.


The Magical Imagination

The Magical Imagination

Author: Karl Bell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-02-23

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1107377846

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This innovative history of popular magical mentalities in nineteenth-century England explores the dynamic ways in which the magical imagination helped people to adjust to urban life. Previous studies of modern popular magical practices and supernatural beliefs have largely neglected the urban experience. Karl Bell, however, shows that the magical imagination was a key cultural resource which granted an empowering sense of plebeian agency in the nineteenth-century urban environment. Rather than portraying magical beliefs and practices as a mere enclave of anachronistic 'tradition' and the fantastical as simply an escapist refuge from the real, he reveals magic's adaptive and transformative qualities and the ways in which it helped ordinary people navigate, adapt to and resist aspects of modern urbanization. Drawing on perspectives from cultural anthropology, sociology, folklore and urban studies, this is a major contribution to our understanding of modern popular magic and the lived experience of modernization and urbanization.