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Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England
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In this paper, the surprising number of otherwise normal people who practice magic and witchcraft in England today, detailing how they became involved in witchcraft, the history and tradition of magic, and other fascinating details.Abstract:
Profiles the surprising number of otherwise normal people who practice magic and witchcraft in England today, detailing how they became involved in witchcraft, the history and tradition of magic, and other fascinating details.read more
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Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds
TL;DR: A practice theory of self and identity has been proposed in this paper, where the authors place identity and agency on the Shoulders of Bakhtin and Vygotsky and describe the space of authoring.
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The Persuasive Appeal of Alternative Medicine
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TL;DR: The possibility that the cultural beliefs and contextual practices of alternative medicine frame a pathway of words, behaviors, and experiences that people find persuasive, compelling, and, ultimately, restorative is examined.
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Vernacular Religion and the Search for Method in Religious Folklife
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Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture
TL;DR: In this paper, the history of truth and error of history is discussed, focusing on the error of imagining the occult, and the truth of history: entering the Academy Conclusions: restoring memory.
Beyond the spiritual supermarket: the social and public significance of New Age spirituality
Stef Aupers,Dick Houtman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that New Age spirituality is substantially less unambiguously individualistic and more socially and publicly significant than today's sociological consensus acknowledges, and propose a radical socologisation of New Age research to document how the doctrinal ideal of self-spirituality is socially constructed, transmitted, and reinforced and critically to deconstruct rather than re...