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Based on ten years of research into the politics of belief surrounding paranormal ideas, here, the author asks whether debates over the paranormal can ever be fruitful, given the deep-seated discursive basis of the different world-views of its participants..
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The Practitioner, The Priest, and The Professor: Perspectives on Self-Initiation in the American Neopagan Community Laubach, Martinie' and Clemons The Trinity of the Hebrew Goddess: A Guided Presentation Of Goddess Narratives and Submerged Beliefs DeMente The Topography of Magic in the Modern Western and Ancient Egyptian Minds : Stannish The science of magic: A parapsychological model of psychic ability in the context of magical will Luke Is Magic Possible Within A Quantum Mechanical Framework? Ash Angels with Nanotech Wings: Magic, Medicine and Technology in The Neuromancer and Brain Plague Lord Rowling's Devil: Ancient Archetype or Modern Manifestation? Lauren Berman "Delivered From Enchantment": Cotton Mather, W. B. O. Peabody, and the Struggle against Magic Sederholm In a Mirror, Darkly : A comparison between the Lovecraftian Mythos and African-Atlantic mystery religions Geall The Journey of The Lion King and the Collective Unconscious Marsh "The Third Time's the Charm": Mythic Operative Magic in the Merseburger Zaubersprüche Moynihan The Old Irish Impotence Spell: The Dam Díli, Fergus, Fertility, and the Mythic Backround of an Irish Incantation Bernhardt-House Reading the Turkish Coffee Cup and Beyond: The Case of North Cyprus Karimova Reviews.
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This book discusses various aspects of the theory and practice of magic in antique cultures around the Mediterranean While some of its contributors address problems of methodology of research into magic and the definition of magic, others deal with specific historical and textual issues. Although a major focus is on Jewish texts ranging from antiquity to the medieval period, the book also includes studies of several magical texts from ancient Mesopotamia and their impact on later magical practice, and studies of Greek and Zoroastrian texts and artifacts. The approaches thus range from the examination of textual or visual sources to theoretical issues such as the history of research and the definition of magic..
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The role of Africans in the growth and process of Christianity in South Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In particular the book provides an insight into the role of writing and literacy in the church founded by the South African prophet, Isaiah Shembe, in 1910.

The book provides a substantial, contextualising introduction which includes discussion of the church’s history and its position in contemporary South Africa, and weaves in discussion of the topics of literacy and modernity. The book then moves to the three documents, presented in their language of composition, Zulu and in an English translation. The three ‘books’, each from Shembe’s Nazareth Baptist Church, provide the reader with a fascinating insight into the growth and organisation of one of southern Africa’s most influential African Churches, and into the use and interpretation of the Bible by the church’s founder, Isaiah Shembe, and by church members. Central to the writings is the complex presence of Shembe, present both through his own words in the first book and, in the second book, through the memory of Meshack Hadebe, a member of the church in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The extracts in the third book provide a glimpse of the church’s hymnal and the unique religious poetry of the hymns, authored by Shembe..
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