Magic in the Modern World -

Magic in the Modern World

Strategies of Repression and Legitimization

Edward Bever, Randall Styers (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
216 Seiten
2018
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-07778-9 (ISBN)
56,30 inkl. MwSt
A collection of essays on various aspects of the position of magic in the modern world. Essays explore the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and the ways in which modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimate their practices.
This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and then by illuminating how modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimize their practices through an overt embrace of evolving forms such as esotericism and supernaturalism.

Taking a two-track approach, this book explores the complex dynamics of the construction of the modern self and its relation to the modern preoccupation with magic. Essays examine how modern “rational” consciousness is generated and maintained and how proponents of both magical and scientific traditions rationalize evidence to fit accepted orthodoxy. This book also describes how people unsatisfied with the norms of modern subjectivity embrace various forms of magic—and the methods these modern practitioners use to legitimate magic in the modern world.

A compelling assessment of magic from the early modern period to today, Magic in the Modern World shows how, despite the dominant culture’s emphatic denial of their validity, older forms of magic persist and develop while new forms of magic continue to emerge.

In addition to the editors, contributors include Egil Asprem, Erik Davis, Megan Goodwin, Dan Harms, Adam Jortner, and Benedek Láng.

Edward Bever is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Old Westbury and the author of The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition, and Everyday Life. Randall Styers is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World.

Contents



Introduction, Edward Bever and Randall Styers

Magic and the Making of Modernity

Chapter 1, “Bad Habits, or, How Superstition Disappeared in the Modern World,” Randall Styers

Chapter 2, “Descartes’ Dreams, the Neuropsychology of Disbelief, and the Making of the Modern Self,” Edward Bever

Chapter 3, “Why Magic Cannot Be Falsified by Experiments,” Benedek Láng

Chapter 4, “Witches as Liars: Witchcraft and Civilization in the Early American Republic,” Adam Jortner

Magic in Modernity

Chapter 5, “Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg: The Contested Arena of Modern Enochian Angel Magic,” Egil Asprem

Chapter 6, “Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the ‘Method of Science,’” Erik Davis

Chapter 7, “Manning the High Seat: Seidr as Self-Making in Contemporary NorseNeopaganisms,” Megan Goodwin

Chapter 8, “Reviving Dead Names: Strategies of Legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the Dark Aesthetic,” Dan Harms

Selected Bibliography

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Magic in History
Verlagsort University Park
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 395 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeines / Lexika
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10 0-271-07778-6 / 0271077786
ISBN-13 978-0-271-07778-9 / 9780271077789
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