Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas

Religion and the Decline of Magic



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ISBN: 9780140137446
Page: 880
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)


May 2, 2012 - Amazon Price: £18.99 £14.29 You save: £4.70 (25%). Sep 14, 2012 - Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic, first published in 1971, is not for the faint-hearted. Jul 16, 2010 - Keith Thomas's classic Religion and the Decline of Magic recounts medieval stories of “how the Host was profanely employed to put out fires, to cure swine fever, to fertilise the fields and to encourage bees to make honey. For the most part, though, these “beliefs” are casual in the extreme: cultivated by popular culture and its delight in magic and Gothic romanticism, held in the most tentative and experimental way, with no connection to any meaningful spirituality. May 19, 2013 - 5/19/2013 – – In today's New York Times book review section, Hilary Mantel, the author of Wolf Hall, says that the book she most presses on other people is Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas. (as of April 14, 2014 3:01 am – Details). Jan 21, 2012 - Here are a few tidbits on the subject: In Religion and the Decline of Magic, Keith Thomas p. 725 One sixteenth-century wizard stated that the fairies had power only over those lacking religious faith. May 31, 2012 - But with the coming of religion that signed the decline of magic, the belief in all rings being intrinsic bearers of specific significations and magic declined as well, until lost in the realms of time. May 22, 2013 - Cheap Religion and the Decline of Magic (Penguin History) Deals. Feb 1, 2014 - [57] Thomas, K; Religion and the Decline of Magic; p 552 and his footnote number 102 regarding Ewen's Witchcraft and Demonism index “heredity in witchcraft”. Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. The large decline in attendance at religious services has not happened because many adults have stopped going to church: it has happened because more and more adults never start attending in the first place.





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