02844nam 2200625 450 991079501800332120230809235342.00-271-07989-410.1515/9780271079899(CKB)4550000000000025(OCoLC)1080549916(MdBmJHUP)muse68713(MiAaPQ)EBC6224463(DE-B1597)584283(OCoLC)1280944964(DE-B1597)9780271079899(EXLCZ)99455000000000002520200930d2017 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMagic in the modern world strategies of repression and legitimization /edited by Edward Bever and Randall StyersUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :The Pennsylvania State University Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (vi, 208 pages)The magic in history series0-271-07777-8 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 : Seir 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."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.Magic in history.MagicMagicHistoryWiccan.disenchantment.legitimization.modernity.supernatural.superstition.twentieth century.witchcraft.Magic.MagicHistory.133.430903Bever EdwardStyers RandallMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795018003321Magic in the modern world3812570UNINA