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Magic in the Modern World
Language: en
Pages: 215
Authors: Edward Bever
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-18 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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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 oppositi
Making Magic
Language: en
Pages: 299
Authors: Randall Styers
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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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 th
Science and Magic in the Modern World
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Eugene Subbotsky
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-04 - Publisher: Routledge

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Science and Magic in the Modern World is a unique text that explores the role of magical thinking in everyday life. It provides an excellent psychological look
Between Magic and Rationality
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: Vibeke Steffen
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-21 - Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press

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In Between Magic and Reality, Vibeke Steffen, Steffen Jöhncke, and Kirsten Marie Raahauge bring together a diverse range of ethnographies that examine and expl
Here Is Real Magic
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Nate Staniforth
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-16 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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An extraordinary memoir about finding wonder in everyday life, from magician Nate Staniforth. Nate Staniforth has spent most of his life and all of his professi