TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dubuisson,Daniel
TI  - Religion and magic in western culture
T2  - Supplements to method & theory in the study of religion,
SN  - 9789004317567
AV  - BL65.M2 D83 2016eb
U1  - 203/.3 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Magic
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religion
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index; Religion and Magic in Western Culture; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. A Universe Disfigured and Caricatured; 1.1 Marcel Mauss's Essay on Magic; 1.2 A Problematic Couple; 1.3 What are the Real Stakes?; 1.4 The Indispensable Adversary; 1.5 An Adversary Mute, Mutilated and Disfigured; 1.6 The Diabolisation and Criminalisation of Magic; 1.7 A Long, Violent History; 2. The Powers of Religion; 2.1 A Double Mirror Construction; 2.1.1 Religio, Religion, Religions; 2.1.2 What Constitutes "Religious"?; 2.1.3 Gods, Priests and Rituals; 2.1.4 What Elements?; 2.1.5 What Form?; 2.1.6 What Boundaries?2.1.7 Paradoxes; 2.1.8 A Major Aporia; 2.1.9 The Non-religious Heritage of Religion; 2.2 The Great Convergence; 2.2.1 A Formidable Discursive Device; 2.2.2 An Incomparable Power; 2.2.3 An Instrument of Conquest -- and Considerable Stakes; 2.2.4 A Conquering, Dominating and Narcissistic Anthropology; 3. Magic without Religion; 3.1 If Religion Does Not Exist ... ; 3.2 A Universal Framework and Model; 3.2.1 A Curious Inventory; 3.2.2 A Sui Generis Force; 3.2.3 Catholic Magisms; 3.2.4 A Living Universe; 3.2.5 A Return to Mauss; 3.3 Lands of Misfortune; 3.3.1 Suffering and Worry; 3.3.2 Explain, Avoid and Heal3.3.3 Man's "Small Worlds"; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
N2  - 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 this dichotomy as well as its many purposes. Whose powers does it serve? Which interests and ideological stakes does it conceal? Moreover, the author proposes a new epistemological framework for the study of magisms as well as their "rehumanisation", and argues for a rehabilitation of their studies
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