Magic Millenium by Wilson Bryan (14 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. Magic and the Millenium: A Sociological Study of Religious Movements of Protest among Tribal and Third-World Peoples, Wilson, Bryan R., Harper and Row, NY, 1973, 547p, hc w/dj, dj bumped/scuffed/shelf wear/small tears, boards bumped/scuffed, text clean, solid binding -7.00.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly sun-toned and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; xi,547 pages; 20 cm. Notes; Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1973. Bibliography: pages 505-531. - Includes index. Subjects; Religion and sociology. Traditional : society. Primitive. Magic Social aspects. Millennium. Eschatology. 1 Kg.

purple full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. vg+ / near fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. top edge of first 50 pages were partially untrimmed, had to be opened with a knife (looks a little rough), otherwise contents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in vg+ / near fine cond. crease on front, scratch & 1cm edge tear on rear. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first u.s edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line ~ at rear of book). xi+547p. bibliography. index of authors. index of subjects. index of principal movements, tribes & persons. religion. social science. world history. psychology. candombles. doukhobors. ghost dance. peyote colt. ras tafari. tenskwatawa. umbanda. yoruba. zulu. ~ In conditions of extremity men ask themselves: 'What is to be done?' 'What shall we do to be saved?' There are several possible answers. Two are both primary and primitive: the recourse to magic; and the belief in a new world order imposed from above, 'a millennium' as it is called in Christendom. These two responses to social distress and cultural shock are seen most vividly where 'ThirdWorld' peoples have felt the impact of the expanding West, where they have encountered modernity and interpreted it either as magic or as the millennium, or which, by magic or by faith in a millennium, they have sought to dispel. Yet magic does not work and the millennium does not come. In this study, Bryan Wilson shows what happens when magic proves inadequate and when prophecy fails. The two basic responses change, and men in the Third World find other modes of adjustment to the alien culture that has engulfed them. Using insights drawn from his earlier studies of sects in Western Christendom, the author shows how changing social needs give rise to these new religious responses: he examines newly arising religious movements from Papua to Brazil, and from the American Indian frontier to the West Coast of Africa. Rejecting both simple chronology and cultural peculiarities as an adequate guide to these movements, he seeks to make sense of them from a sociological perspective and provides theoretical unity and coherence to the study of fascinatingly diverse religious phenomena, ranging from Hau Hau to Mau Mau and from Peyotism to Pentecostalism. Students of social change ~sociologists, historians, political scientists and anthropologists~will find much of importance in this work, which will command no less attention from social psychologists and students of religion.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Frances J. Effenbein (Jacket Design) (illustrator). 547 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Small pen mark on bottom edge.

hardcover. Condition: very good. First. xi + 547pp., 8vo, cloth; spine and upper margin of front cover faded. New York: Harper & Row, (1973). First U.S. edition. A very good copy.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly sun-toned and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; xi,547 pages; 20 cm. Notes; Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1973. Bibliography: pages 505-531. - Includes index. Subjects; Religion and sociology. Traditional : society. Primitive. Magic Social aspects. Millennium. Eschatology. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 547pp paperback few small creases to covers, leaves toned, ownership signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Cloth. Very Good/Good. First U.S. Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:06-014671-0. Jacket price-clipped and a bit rubbed. 547 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good ++. 547 pages. Light wear to covers' corners, light browning to page-edges o/w in very clean, tidy condition.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Neil Young (illustrator). All Images Are Provided By Website, Please Contact Us For Photos If Desired. Book Is In Good Condition. Spine Worn At Top And Tail, Cover Corners Bent. No Jacket Included. Binding Tight And Secure. Pages Clean And Bright Throughout.

8vo. xi + 547 pages with index and bibliography. Near fine, in a near fine price-clipped dustjacket.

VG orig. plum cloth in price-clipped beige on black dj. xi, 547 p.; 24 cm. 1st U.S. edition. Binding is Hardcover.