The Nature of Magic : An Anthropology of Consciousness Paperback / softback
by Susan Greenwood
Paperback / softback
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This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witches, druids, shamans - seek to relate spiritually with nature through 'magical consciousness'. 'Magic' and 'consciousness' are concepts that are often fraught with prejudice and ambiguity respectively.
Greenwood develops a new theory of magical consciousness by arguing that magic ultimately has more to do with the workings of the human mind in terms of an expanded awareness than with socio-cultural explanations.
She combines her own subjective insights gained from magical practice with practitioners' in-depth accounts and sustained academic theory on the process of magic.
She also tracks magical consciousness in philosophy, myth, folklore, story-telling, and the hi-tech discourse of postmodernity, and asks important questions concerning nature religion's environmental credentials, such as whether it as inherently ecological as many of its practitioners claim.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/05/2005
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- ISBN:9781845200954
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/05/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9781845200954
