Religion and Magic in Western Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-29895-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 439 g

Reihe: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dubuisson, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Magie, Alchemie und Hermetik

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Dubuisson, Docteur ès Lettres (1983) is emeritus Director of Research (CNRS, Lille). Publications include The Western Construction of Religion (2003), Twentieth Century Mythologies Dumézil, Eliade, Lévi-Strauss (2006) and Wisdoms of Humanity Buddhism, Paganism, Christianity (2011).