Defining magic : a reader / edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Michael Stausberg.

Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts that aim at determining the nature of magic, establish its bound...

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Uniform Title:Critical categories in the study of religion.
Other Authors: Otto, Bernd-Christian
Stausberg, Michael
Language:English
Published: Sheffield ; Bristol, CT : Equinox, 2013.
Series:Critical categories in the study of religion.
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Physical Description:xiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book

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