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  title info:
    title: Making magic
    sub title: religion, magic, and science in the modern world
  name:
    name part: Styers, Randall
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vi, 290 pages)
  abstract: Annotation Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept 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 distinctly modern models of religion and science. Yet this notion of magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. InMaking 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. 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. Scholars have found magic an invaluable tool in their efforts to define the appropriate boundaries of religion and science. On a broader level, says Styers, magical thinking has served as an important foil for modernity itself. Debates over the nature of magic have offered a particularly rich site at which scholars have worked to define and to contest the nature of modernity and norms for life in the modern world
  table of contents: The emergence of magic in the modern world -- Magic and the regulation of piety -- Magic and the regulation of reason -- Magic and the regulation of desire
  note: Randall Styers
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-282) and index
  subject:
    topic: Magic
  subject:
    topic: Magic
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Magic
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Magic
  subject:
    topic: Magie
  subject:
    topic: Magie
    topic: Aspect religieux
  subject:
    topic: Magie
    topic: Aspect social
  subject:
    topic: illusion (performing art)
  subject:
    topic: magic (occult science)
  subject:
    topic: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
    topic: Magick Studies
  subject:
    topic: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
    topic: Witchcraft & Wicca
  subject:
    topic: Magic
  subject:
    topic: Magic
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Magic
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Magie
  subject:
    topic: Magie
  subject:
    topic: Geloof en wetenschap
  subject:
    topic: Sociale aspecten
  classification: BF1611 .S855 2004eb
  classification: 133.4/3/0903
  classification: 11.09
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    origin info:
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    identifier: (DLC) 2003049859
    identifier: (OCoLC)52412326
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 060323
    record change date: 20260318172021.8
    record identifier: in00005701394
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng