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. ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Supplements to Method & theory in the study of religion ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
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