Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion

Author: Pamela Moro

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Published: 2009-09-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780078140013

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This comparative reader takes an anthropological approach to the study of religious beliefs and practices, both strange and familiar. The engaging articles on all key issues related to the anthropology of religion grab the attention of students, while giving them an excellent foundation in contemporary ideas and approaches in the field. The multiple authors included in each chapter represent a range of interests, geographic foci, and ways of looking at each subject. Divided into 10 chapters, this book begins with a broad view of anthropological ways of looking at religion and moves on to some of the core topics within the subject, such as myth, ritual, and the various types of religious specialties.

The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft -- Pearson eText
The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft -- Pearson eText

Author: Rebecca L Stein

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-07

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1317350219

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This book emphasizes the major concepts of both anthropology and the anthropology of religion and examines religious expression from a cross-cultural perspective while incorporating key theoretical concepts. It is aimed at students encountering anthropology for the first time.

Magic Witchcraft and Religion: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
Magic Witchcraft and Religion: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion

Author: James Myers

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Published: 2012-09-27

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9780078034947

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Magic Witchcraft and Religion: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion takes an anthropological approach to the study of religious beliefs and practices, both strange and familiar. The engaging articles on all key issues related to the anthropology of religion grab the attention of students, while giving them an excellent foundation in contemporary ideas and approaches in the field. The multiple authors included in each chapter represent a range of interests, geographic foci, and ways of looking at each subject. Features of the ninth edition include new study questions and articles, as well as updated discussions on religion, illness, healing, and death.

A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion

Author: Michael Lambek

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13: 9780631221135

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A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings on the anthropology of religion. It includes both material whose theme is 'religion' in a straightforward and obvious sense, as well as material that has expanded how we might look at religion - and the horizons of what we mean by 'religion' - linking it to broader questions of culture and politics.

Religion and the Decline of Magic
Religion and the Decline of Magic

Author: Keith Thomas

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2003-01-30

Total Pages: 853

ISBN-13: 0141932406

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Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. Keith Thomas's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700, when science and rationalism began to challenge the older systems of belief.

Anthropology and Religion
Anthropology and Religion

Author: Robert L. Winzeler

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0759121893

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Drawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this revised and updated text, hailed as the "best general text on religion in anthropology available," offers an introduction to what anthropologists know or think about religion, how they have studied it, and how...

Defining Magic
Defining Magic

Author: Bernd-Christian Otto

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-11

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1317545044

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Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts that aim at determining the nature of magic, establish its boundaries and key features, and explain its working. The reader brings together seminal writings from antiquity to today. The texts have been selected on the strength of their success in defining magic as a category, their impact on future scholarship, and their originality. The writings are divided into chronological sections and each essay is separately introduced for student readers. Together, these texts - from Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies, and Anthropology - reveal the breadth of critical approaches and responses to defining what is magic. CONTRIBUTORS: Aquinas, Augustine, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Dennis Diderot, Emile Durkheim, Edward Evans-Pritchard, James Frazer, Susan Greenwood, Robin Horton, Edmund Leach, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Christopher Lehrich, Bronislaw Malinowski, Marcel Mauss, Agrippa von Nettesheim, Plato, Pliny, Plotin, Isidore of Sevilla, Jesper Sorensen, Kimberley Stratton, Randall Styers, Edward Tylor

Witching Culture
Witching Culture

Author: Sabina Magliocco

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780812218794

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Magliocco impressively corrals the diverse writings and experiences of U.S. neo-pagans into this highly readable and deeply researched ethnographic study. . . . Highly recommended.--Choice

Traditional Witchcraft and the Pagan Revival
Traditional Witchcraft and the Pagan Revival

Author: Suzanne Ruthven

Publisher: Moon Books

Published: 2013-08-30

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1782791558

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Traditional Witchcraft and the Pagan Revival takes us on a journey into the past, along the highways and byways of our pagan heritage to discover when the different aspects of magical influence entered traditional witchcraft. It will appeal to everyone with an interest in magic, witchcraft and paganism - from grass roots to the more advanced levels of Wicca - who wish to learn more about the different traditions and their antecedents. ,

Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays
Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

Author: Bronislaw Malinowski

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2014-04-10

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1473393124

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This vintage book comprises three famous Malinowski essays on the subject of religion. Malinowski is one of the most important and influential anthropologists of all time. He is particularly renowned for his ability to combine the reality of human experience, with the cold calculations of science. An important collection of three of his most famous essays, "Magic, Science and Religion" provides its reader with a series of concepts concerning religion, magic, science, rite and myth. This is undertaken in an attempt to form a definite impression and understanding of the Trobrianders of New Guinea. The chapters of this book include: "Magic, Science and Religion", "Primitive Man and his Religion", "Rational Mastery by Man of his Surroundings", "Faith and Cult", "The Creative Acts of Religion", "Providence in Primitive Life", "Man's Selective Interest in Nature", etcetera. This book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.