Religion, Science, and Magic : In Concert and In Conflict.
Every culture makes the distinction between ""true religion"" and magic, regarding one action and its result as ""miraculous, "" while rejecting another as the work of the devil. Surveying such topics as Babylonian witchcraft, Jesus the magician, magic in Hasi...
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Oxford University Press, USA,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; I: Statement of the Question; 1. Rationality, Ritual, and Science; II: A Case for Comparison; 2. The Demonic Image of the Witch in Standard Babylonian Literature: The Reworking of Popular Conceptions by Learned Exorcists; III: Religion, Learning, and Magic in the History of Judaism; 3. Science and Magic, Miracle and Magic in Formative Judaism: The System and the Difference; 4. Jewish Magic from the Renaissance Period to Early Hasidism; IV: Religion, Learning, and Magic in the History of Christianity; 5. Magic and Messiah.
- 6. Light on a Dark Subject and Vice Versa: Magic and Magicians in the New Testament7. Magic, Miracle, and Popular Practice in the Early Medieval West: Anglo-Saxon England; V: Magic in Relation to Philosophy; 8. Theurgy and Forms of Worship in Neoplatonism; VI: Religion, Science, and Magic in the Study of Society; 9. Witchcraft and the Occult as Boundary Maintenance Devices; 10. Magic, Religion, Science, and Secularization; Index to Biblical and Talmudic References; B; C; D; E; G; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; S; T; V; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y.