Making magic : religion, magic, and science in the modern world / Randall Styers.
Randall Styers seeks to account for the 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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Reflection and theory in the study of religion.
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| Summary: | Randall Styers seeks to account for the 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. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 290 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0195151070 9780195151077 0195169417 9780195169416 |