Defining Magic: A Reader

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 boundaries and key features, and explain its working. The reader brings together seminal writings from antiquity to today. The texts have been selected on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1908049804
• ISBN13: 9781908049803
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.4"