Religion and magic in western culture / / by Daniel Dubuisson ; translated by Martha Cunningham.

In the history of Western culture, theology, and science, a strict dichotomy exists between religion and magic: religion as the intellectually and morally superior one – magic as the primitive, superstitious, demonic other. The present work aims to break with this tradition, and traces the origin of...

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Superior document:Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Volume 6
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Supplements to Method & theory in the study of religion ; Volume 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource (209 p.)
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