The end of magic

Ariel Glucklich

39 citations0/0 files stored

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices Study and Philosophy of Religion Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs

Abstract

Glucklich offers a new approach towards the definition and understanding of magic. Basing himself in the Indian city of Banaras, where magic is a familiar part of everyday life, he reviews the major theories that have explained (or explained away) magic over the last century. He argues that all of these theories leave out something critical, namely what he calls magical consciouness - a special state of awareness of magicians and their clients which, though extraordinary, is also perfectly natural.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 39 citations exist upstream.

Cited by

2005Rewritten rites: language and social relations in traditional and contemporary funerals 2003The supernatural in Hong Kong young people's ghost stories 2010Daughters of magic: esoteric traditions, relational ontology and the archaeology of the post-medieval past 2019‘The only real magic’: enchantment and disenchantment in music's modernist ordinary

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.