edited by Jacob Neusner, Ernest S. Frerichs, and Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1989.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 294 p. ;
Dimensions
22 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
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Papers presented at a conference held at Brown University, Aug. 13, 1987.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Statement of the question: Rationality, ritual, and science / Hans H. Penner -- 2. A case for comparison: The demonic image of the witch in standard Babylonian literature: the reworking of popular conceptions by learned exorcists / Tzvi Abusch -- 3. Religion, learning, and magic in the history of Judaism: Science and magic, miracle and magic in formative Judaism: the system and the difference / Jacob Neusner -- Jewish magic from the Renaissance period to early Hasidism / Moshe Idel -- 4. Religion, learning, and magic in the history of Christianity: Magic and Messiah / Howard Clark Kee -- Light on a dark subject and vice versa: magic and magicians in the New Testament / Susan R. Garrett -- Magic, miracle, and popular practice in the early medieval West: Anglo-Saxon England / Karen Louise Jolly -- 5. Magic in relation to philosophy: Theurgy and forms of worship in neoplatonism / Georg Luck -- 6. Religion, science, and magic in the study of society: Witchcraft and the occult as boundary maintenance devices / Nachman Ben-Yehuda -- Magic, religion, science, and secularization / Stephen Sharot.
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Title
Religion, science, and magic.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Magic-- Religious aspects-- Christianity, Congresses.