Making Magic: Religion, Magic, & Science in the Modern World: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World (Aar Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series) - Softcover

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Styers, Randall

 
9780195169416: Making Magic: Religion, Magic, & Science in the Modern World: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World (Aar Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series)

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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. He argues that this persistence can best be 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.

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Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 2003
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