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Title:Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, Issue 2
Author:Dave Evans (ed)
ISBN:1869928725 : 9781869928728
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:384
Weight: .576 Kg.
Published:Mandrake of Oxford - May 2004
List Price: 19.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought: Mind, body, spirit: magic & alchemy


A multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed print publication, covering all areas of magic, witchcraft, paganism etc; all geographical regions and all historical periods.

Contents: Alien Selves: Modernity and the Social Diagnostics of the Demonic in ‘Lovecraftian Magick'; Wishful Thinking Notes towards a psychoanalytic sociology of Pagan magic; A Shell with my Name on it: The Reliance on the Supernatural During the First World War; The Metaphysical Relationship between Magic and Miracles; Demonic Possession, and Spiritual Healing in Nineteenth-Century Devon; Human Body in Southern Slavic Folk Sorcery; Four Glasses Of Water; The Land Near the Dark Cornish Sea; Kenneth Grant and the Magickal revival; Magic through the Linguistic Lenses of Greek mágos, Indo-European *mag(h)-, Sanskrit màyà and Pharaonic Egyptian heka; The symbolism of the pierced heart.

"Diverse materials...from people who really know their stuff. ...another fine emission." -- Fortean Times, May 2005.