Body, Mind & Spirit, Magic Studies

Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment

Name: Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment
Author: Birgit Meyer
ISBN: 9780804744638

by Birgit Meyer, Peter Pels

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Synopsis

This is the first book to explore comparatively how magic—usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern—is also at home in modernity.

About the Author, Birgit Meyer

Birgit Meyer is a senior lecturer at the Research Centre for the Study of Religion and Society, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam. Peter Pels teaches at the Research Centre for the Study of Religion and Society and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam. He is also the editor of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale.