| Description |
xii, 294 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Papers presented at a conference held at Brown University, Aug. 13, 1987. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1. Statement of the question: Rationality, ritual, and science / Hans H. Penner -- 2. A case for comparison: Demonic image of the witch in standard Babylonian literature: the reworking of popular conceptions by learned exorcists / Tzvi Abusch -- 3. Religion, learning, and magic in the history of Judaism: Science and magic, miracle and magic in formative Judaism: the system and the difference / Jacob Neusner -- Jewish magic from the Renaissance period to early Hasidism / Moshe Idel -- 4. Religion, learning, and magic in the history of Christianity: Magic and Messiah / Howard Clark Kee -- Light on a dark subject and vice versa: magic and magicians in the New Testament / Susan R. Garrett -- Magic, miracle, and popular practice in the early medieval West: Anglo-Saxon England / Karen Louise Jolly -- 5. Magic in relation to philosophy: Theurgy and forms of worship in neoplatonism / Georg Luck -- 6. Religion, science, and magic in the study of society: Witchcraft and the occult as boundary maintenance devices / Nachman Ben-Yehuda -- Magic, religion, science, and secularization / Stephen Sharot. |
| Subject |
Magic -- Religious aspects -- Congresses.
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Magic -- Religious aspects. |
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Magic -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- Congresses.
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Magic -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. |
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Magic -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Congresses.
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Magic -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Religion and science -- Congresses.
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Religion and science. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016.
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Frerichs, Ernest S.
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Flesher, Paul Virgil McCracken.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Religion, science, and magic. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989 (OCoLC)586058991 |
| ISBN |
0195056035 alkaline paper |
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9780195056037 alkaline paper |
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