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Books on: contemporary sorcery

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Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa

Book by T. O. Beidelman, Mary Douglas, Robert F. Gray, G. W. B. Huntingford, Jean La Fontaine, Robert A. Levine, John Middleton, E. H. Winter; Routledge and Paul, 1963

Subjects:

Witchcraft--Africa, East

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...mbandwa spirit possession cult; also to the native courts, where even today sorcery cases are frequently heard. In conclusion I review briefly the contemporary psychological and social significance of the beliefs and practices described...
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Social Sciences as Sorcery

Book by Stanislav Andreski; Deutsch, 1972

Subjects:

Social Sciences

Collections: Entire Library

...phenomena, in addition to developing the ideas which, in an inarticulate and therefore bastardized form, underlie most of contemporary thinking about such matters as development and resistance to change. Spencers key concept was evolution, by which he meant...
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Mathematical Sorcery: Revealing the Secrets of Numbers

Book by Calvin C. Clawson; Plenum Trade, 1999

Subjects:

Mathematics--Popular Works

Collections: Entire Library

Calvin Clawson has a unique talent for opening the door, for the uninitiated, to the splendors of mathematics. In this captivating quest for pure knowledge, he takes us on a journey to the amazing discoveries of our ancient ancestors. He divulges the wisdom of the ancient Greeks, Sumerians ...
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Calvin Clawson has a unique talent for opening the door, for the uninitiated, to the splendors of mathematics. In this captivating quest for pure knowledge, he takes us on a journey to the amazing discoveries of our ancient ancestors. He divulges the wisdom of the ancient Greeks, Sumerians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, whose stunning revelations have deep meaning to this day.
The secrets of the constellations, the enigma of the golden mean, and the brilliance of a proof are just some of the breakthroughs Clawson explores with unbridled delight. Enabling us to appreciate the achievements of Newton and other intellectual giants is his singular talent. But he takes us one step further. Clawson inspires us through his eloquence and zeal to actually do mathematics. Transporting us beyond an appreciation, he urges us to leap to the next level. He helps us intuitively comprehend and follow the very building blocks of the stately but mysterious edifices that too long have been forbidden, including infinity, functions, and the limit. By accompanying him on this journey, we taste the fruit of knowledge that has eluded us until now.
Mathematical Sorcery is Clawson's greatest work. By trusting in his intuitive approach, we sample the sumptuous delights of the greatest minds in the history of civilization.
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Systems of North American Witchcraft and Sorcery

Book by Deward E. Walker Jr.; University of Idaho, 1970

Subjects:

Indian Magic--Central America, Indian Magic--Mexico, Indian Magic--North America

Collections: History, Entire Library

...operating in contemporary North American...witchcraft and sorcery phenomena on...witchcraft or sorcery initiation. Contemporary North American...witchcraft and sorcery in simpler societies...hunting" in contemporary complex societies...
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Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia

Book by C. W. Watson, Roy Ellen; University of Hawaii Press, 1993

Subjects:

Magic--Asia, Southeastern, Witchcraft--Asia, Southeastern

Collections: Entire Library

...are as much a part of the contemporary Southeast Asian scene as...traditional Malign magic and sorcery are reported in the literature...7and 8 . In only a few contemporary southeast Asian societies is sorcery regarded as a public offense...

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Journal Articles on: contemporary sorcery

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Adam Yuet Chau. Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China

Journal article by David A. Palmer; China Review International, Vol. 13, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...court cases) or dazibao accusing him of sorcery. Clearly written, with an engaging...provides a detailed local case study of contemporary state-religion relations, describes...and history of religion in modern and contemporary China.
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Sorcery Accusations Unleashed: The Lele Revisited, 1987

Journal article by Mary Douglas; Africa, Vol. 69, 1999

Subjects:

Catholic Church in Congo--Social aspects, Congo--Social aspects, Witchcraft--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...the priests who led the last one having been reprimanded. Contemporary Western theology is not attuned to answering the questions...their pagan traditions answer all too plausibly in terms of sorcery. On this there is a block, or a gap, a pregnant silence. The...
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Sorcery and Evidence of Change in Maring Justice

Journal article by Edward Lipuma; Ethnology, Vol. 33, 1994

Subjects:

Maring (New Guinea people)--Social aspects, Social change--New Guinea, Witchcraft--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...reality. Thus, the trial process and sorcery trials in particular are major venues...aspects of custom that are ill suited for contemporary life. Maring say that prior to their...memory; a contradiction that, I suggest, sorcery trials, with their allegiance to local...
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Political Assassination by Other Means: Public Protest, Sorcery and Morality in Thailand

Journal article by Ananda Rajah; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 36, 2005

Subjects:

Demonstrations--Analysis, Demonstrations--Social aspects, Demonstrations--Thailand, Social protest--Analysis, Social protest--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...aspects of contemporary nation-state...internal logic of sorcery, and how this...witchcraft and sorcery. (15) In post-colonial...allowed in contemporary Indonesian...malevolent sorcery in political affairs in contemporary Southeast Asia...
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'Sorcery Is Dialectical:' Plato and Jean Toomer in Charles Johnson's 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Journal article by Frederick T. Griffiths; African American Review, Vol. 30, 1996

Subjects:

African American authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Johnson, Charles--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Logic--Portrayals, depictions, etc., The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Toomer, Jean--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...collection, with "The Sorcerers Apprentice" as the other, and six contemporary tales in between. Paralleling and reversing the aging Allmuseri...Johnsons tripartite structure, like that of Toomer, brackets the contemporary, urban, and professional between the opening and concluding...

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Magazine Articles on: contemporary sorcery

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The Bible and Christianity in the Global South

Magazine article by Thomas Badger; Contemporary Review, Vol. 289, Autumn 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Jenkins. Oxford University Press. pounds sterling16.99. xi + 252 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-530065-9. The Bible is full of feud, sorcery, plague, prostitution, corruption, slavery, exploitation, genocide, displacement and precarious agriculture and so is the third...
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Retreats into Fantasy

Magazine article by David Pryce-Jones; New Criterion, Vol. 21, November 2002

Subjects:

Arab countries--Foreign relations, Civilization, Western--Social aspects, Civilization--History, Civilization--International aspects, Civilization--Political aspects, Culture, International relations--Analysis, Islam, Islam and politics--History, Islam and politics--International aspects, United States--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...introduced these novelties in the first place. And in part it is due to the Islamic tradition of absolutism now perpetuated in contemporary garb. The United States involvement in the Middle East began as colonialism was ending. Its realpolitik interest lay in...
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ANTHROPOLOGY WITH A DIFFERENCE : Mary Douglas at 80

Magazine article by Paul Baumann; Commonweal, Vol. 128, August 17, 2001

Subjects:

Douglas, Mary--Appreciation, Ethnologists--Appreciation

Collections: Entire Library

...anthropological methods to bear on contemporary concerns tended to be overlooked...about everything from sin to sorcery to sexual morality could be...mentioned a violent outbreak of sorcery accusation and subsequent...respect for the traditional sorcery beliefs and practices of the...
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The Irishman Who Translated Mexican Poetry

Magazine article by Jaime Perales; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 59, January 2007

Subjects:

Beckett, Samuel--Portrayals, Beckett, Samuel--Translations and translating, Paz, Octavio--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry--Translations and translating

Collections: Entire Library

...what Baudelaire would have called "an exercise in evocative sorcery." Though he wrote in French, Beckett never allowed anyone...OAS) and included works from the sixteenth century to the contemporary period. Paz and another Mexican writer, Alfonso Reyes, were...
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She-Devils, Harlots and Harridans in Northern Renaissance Prints

Magazine article by Julia Nurse; History Today, Vol. 48, July 1998

Subjects:

Art, Renaissance--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Prints--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Illustrations, photographs, etc.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...seduction, deviousness and sorcery, but also for economic reasons...Judith did not conform with contemporary notions of how women were...role-reversal fitted in with contemporary Northern Renaissance artistic...control the increase in medieval sorcery the Malleus Maleficarum (The...

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Newspaper Articles on: contemporary sorcery

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The Occult Mystique Part I

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 27, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the Lord your God has not permitted...in the Bible still holds true because he is also the God of contemporary times. Our God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow...
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Spellbinding Play Shows That Witchcraft Is Still a Burning Issue Today

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), November 14, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...suspicion that fuelled the witch craze - it tells a surprisingly contemporary tale of human courage and cruelty. Witch Child is the work...misfortune; the sour, giggling girls whose hysteria fuels his sorcery accusations. Smith morphs from one character to the next by...
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So Where Are the Masterpieces? Rather Than Keep Its Few Great Works of Art Permanently on View, the Latest UBS-Sponsored Rehang at Tate Modern Simply Shuffles the Rag, Tag and Bobtail of the Collection

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 4, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...necromancers whose deceitful sorcery is no more than the now stale...over them the incantations of contemporary curatorial jargon. Thus it...necromancers whose deceitful sorcery is no more than the now stale...over them the incantations of contemporary curatorial jargon. Thus it...
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Novel Views; Celebrated Novelist Sir Salman Rushdie Talks to Hannah Stephenson about the Break-Up of His Fourth Marriage and How Writing His Latest Novel, the Enchantress of Florence, Helped Him to Cope with It

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), April 19, 2008

Subjects:

Rushdie, Salman

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Its set in a different world. I really wasnt thinking of any contemporary models at all. Not all beautiful women are my ex-wife." Yet...great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery. His theme of powerful women was not difficult for him to...
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The Occult Mystique

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 4, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...reverse. * * * Unknown to many, there are now popular forms of contemporary music a" and this is not limited to rock music, that openly...of body experiences, and other mystic practices of ancient sorcery and religion. Thousands if not millions of people have been...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: contemporary sorcery

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Magic , in Entertainment

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...jump invisibly from beneath upended cups), still a staple in contemporary magic. The performance of magic was mingled with religion...cent. magic was also commonly associated with witchcraft or sorcery and, although magicians called themselves jugglers or tricksters...

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