02816nam 2200565 450 991051173380332120190826145055.090-04-35807-210.1163/9789004358072(CKB)4100000001400683(MiAaPQ)EBC5265050(OCoLC)1004260362(OCoLC)1019666857(nllekb)BRILL9789004358072(EXLCZ)99410000000140068320180303h20182018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMagic, science, religion /by Ira LivingstonLeiden, Netherlands ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :Brill Rodopi,2018.©20181 online resource (175 pages)Experimental Practices : Technoscience, Literature, Art, Philosophy,1873-8788 ;Volume 290-04-35710-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Complex Systems in a Nutshell -- Chapter 3: Magic by Example -- Chapter 4: Future Perfect -- Chapter 5: What is Religion? -- Chapter 6: God 3.5B (A Nearsighted Evolutionary Panorama) -- Chapter 7: Blake Magic -- Back Matter -- Acknowledgments.Magic Science Religion explores surprising intersections among the three meaning-making and world-making practices named in the title. Through colorful examples, the book reveals circuitous ways that social, cultural and natural systems connect, enabling real kinds of magic to operate. Among the many case studies are accounts of how an eighteenth-century actor gave his audience goosebumps; how painters, poets, and pool sharks use nonlinearity in working their magics; how the first vertebrates gained consciousness; how plants fine-tuned human color vision; and the necessarily magical element of activism that builds on the conviction that "another future is possible" while working to push self-fulfilling prophecy into political action.Experimental practices (Brill Rodopi (Firm)) ;Volume 2.MagicSocial aspectsScience and magicMagicReligious aspectsReligion and scienceScienceSocial aspectsElectronic books.MagicSocial aspects.Science and magic.MagicReligious aspects.Religion and science.ScienceSocial aspects.201.613343Livingston Ira1956-860426MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910511733803321Magic, science, religion2552705UNINA