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Randall G Styers

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Description:Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the idea of magic has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to the distinctly modern models of religion and science. As a category, however, magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. 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 it can best be explained in light of the European and Euro-American drive to establish and secure their own identity as normative: rational-scientific, judicial-ethical, industrious, productive, and heterosexual. Magic has served to designate a form of alterity or deviance against which dominant Western notions of appropriate religious piety, legitimate scientific rationality, and orderly social relations are brought into relief.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World. American Academy of Religion Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series. (N. To get started finding Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World. American Academy of Religion Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series. (N, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 290

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: 2014

ISBN: 128055908X

Description: Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the idea of magic has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to the distinctly modern models of religion and science. As a category, however, magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. 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 it can best be explained in light of the European and Euro-American drive to establish and secure their own identity as normative: rational-scientific, judicial-ethical, industrious, productive, and heterosexual. Magic has served to designate a form of alterity or deviance against which dominant Western notions of appropriate religious piety, legitimate scientific rationality, and orderly social relations are brought into relief.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World. American Academy of Religion Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series. (N. To get started finding Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World. American Academy of Religion Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series. (N, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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