TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bever,Edward
AU  - Styers,Randall
TI  - Magic in the modern world: strategies of repression and legitimization 
T2  - The magic in history series
SN  - 9780271079899
AV  - BF1611 .M34 2017eb
U1  - 133.4/30903 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - University Park, Pennsylvania
PB  - The Pennsylvania State University Press
KW  - Magic
KW  - History
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Parapsychology
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - fast
KW  - nli
KW  - Wiccan
KW  - disenchantment
KW  - legitimization
KW  - modernity
KW  - supernatural
KW  - superstition
KW  - twentieth century
KW  - witchcraft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Bad habits, or how superstition disappeared in the modern world / Randall Styers -- Descartes' dreams, the neuropsychology of disbelief, and the making of the modern self / Edward Bever -- Why magic cannot be falsified by experiments / Benedek Láng -- Witches as liars : witchcraft and civilization in the early American republic / Adam Jortner -- Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg : the contested arena of modern Enochian angel magic / Egil Asprem -- Babalon launching : Jack Parsons, rocketry, and the 'method of science' / Erik Davis -- Manning the high seat : Seiðr as self-making in contemporary Norse neopaganisms / Megan Goodwin -- Reviving dead names : strategies of legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the dark aesthetic / Dan Harms
N2  - "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"--Provided by publisher
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