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The Nature of Magic
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Greenwood, Susan |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | 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. Book Name: The Nature of Magic |
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| DOI | 10.4324/9781003087120 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-06-03 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Nature of Magic Limnology Religion's Nature Religion Magical Consciousness Practitioners Sustained Academic Subjective Insights Own Subjective |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
