Making magic religion, magic, and science in the modern world

Randall Styers seeks to account for the vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that it can best be explained in light of the European and Euro-American drive to establish and secure their own identity as normative

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Styers, Randall
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2004, 2004
Series:Reflection and theory in the study of religion / Reflection and theory in the study of religion
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