Religion, Science, and Magic In Concert and in Conflict

Jacob Neusner, Ernest S. Frerichs, Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher, Karen Louise Jolly, Moshe Idel, Tzvi Abusch

ISBN 10: 0195056035 / ISBN 13: 9780195056037

Published by Oxford University Press, USA June 1, 1989, New York, 1989

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Collectible Fine Hardcover Fine Mylar Protected Dust Jacket. Clean 294 pp. First Oxford University Press Edition. Penciled poem on first free endpaper. NOT a library copy. Amazing anthology of academic essays on religious magic. Jewish Magic and Hasidism by Moshe Idel Another on science and magic and miracle by Jacob Neusner Another on Babylonian Witches by Tzvi Abusch and Anglo-Saxon Magic by Karen Louise Jolly much more. Fine First edition hardcover and mylared dust jacket. See our Three Geese in Flight Celtic Books Scans of Cover and Table of Contents.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Religion, Science, and Magic In Concert and in Conflict
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA June 1, 1989, New York
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195056035
• ISBN 13: 9780195056037
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American.Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Mylared
• Seller catalogs:
  • Megalithic/Goddess/Geomancy
  • Goddess
  • Celtic Christianity

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Synopsis

Every culture makes the distinction between "true religion" and magic, regarding one action and its result as "miraculous," while rejecting another as the work of the devil. Surveying such topics as Babylonian witchcraft, Jesus the magician, magic in Hasidism and Kabbalah, and magic in Anglo-Saxon England, these ten essays provide a rigrous examination of the history of this distinction in Christianity and Judaism. Written by such distinguished scholars as Jacob Neusner, Hans Penner, Howard Kee, Tzvi Abusch, Susan R. Garrett, and Moshe Idel, the essays explore a broad range of topics, including how certain social groups sort out approved practices and beliefs from those that are disapproved--providing fresh insight into how groups define themselves; "magic" as an insider's term for the outsider's religion; and the tendency of religious traditions to exclude the magical. In addition the collection provides illuminating social, cultural, and anthropological explanations for the prominence of the magical in certain periods and literature.

About the Author

Jacob Neusner is at University of South Florida. Ernest S. Frerichs is at Brown University Program in Judaic Studies.