by Randall Styers · Oxford University Press USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780195169416
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«Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World» is Randall Styers's essay (Oxford University Press USA, paperback, 304 pp., English).
Randall Styers analyses why academic discourse has insisted so much on defining and explaining magic despite failing to do so. The persistence of this debate reveals the Western need to establish a normative modern identity: magic acts as a category of the deviant and serves to delimit correct religiosity, legitimate science, and social order.
Published in 2004, it belongs to the AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion series of the American Academy of Religion.
Aimed at readers interested in academic studies on religion, history of ideas, and cultural anthropology.
