Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion an

Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion an

Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion an

This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit oppositi

In Wonder Shows, Fred Nadis offers a colorful history of these traveling magicians, inventors, popular science lecturers, and other presenters of “miracle sci