Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England - Hardcover

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Profiles the surprising number of otherwise "normal" people who practice magic and witchcraft in England today, detailing how they became involved in witchcraft, the history and tradition of magic, and other fascinating details

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Tanya M. Luhrmann is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego.
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A groundbreaking study that nimbly interweaves Ms. Luhrmann's own magical adventures with anthropological shoptalk, offering a systematic classification and analysis of modern magic, as well as judicious observations on the nature of belief...A formidable challenge that T. M. Luhrmann's book implicitly poses [is] a rigorous examination of the tenets of our own faith, ideas, dearest intellectual castles, to find just where the foundations lie. To accomplish that would be magic enough for anyone. (Philip Zaleski New York Times Book Review)

Raises questions about the way we think, believe, imagine, know, in a most fascinating way. (Rosemary Dinnage New York Review of Books)

Anyone who likes to speculate about the nature of belief and the organization of belief systems, to learn about the development and meanings of ritual, and to explore efforts toward creative self-realization will be intrigued with the results of Luhrmann's immersion in the several strains of modern British magic. (Michele Slung Washington Post Book World)

Luhrmann has made a major contribution to the study of magic, new religions, and the development of the irrational within a culture that prides itself on rationality. (Helen A. Berger Contemporary Sociology)

Such is the strength of Tanya Luhrmann's narrative that, by the end of the book, magic becomes a normal and almost routine activity--just another way of channeling that desire for worship and that appetite for symbolic ritual that human beings seem to possess. Since this is an anthropological study the author has many serious points to make about the relationship between practice and theory. (Peter Ackroyd London Times)

This brilliant work provides the most wide-ranging sociological or anthropological investigation to date of the interrelated witchcraft, ceremonial magic, and neo-pagan movements that are becoming increasingly important in both Britain and the United States...No one interested in contemporary spirituality or the social scientific study of religion can afford to miss this book. (Robert S. Ellwood Religious Studies Review)

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  • PublisherHarvard University Press
  • Publication date1989
  • ISBN 10 0674663233
  • ISBN 13 9780674663237
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages396
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