书名: The Nature of Magic: An Anthropology of Consciousness
作者: Susan Greenwood (Author)
出版社: Berg Publishers (July 14, 2005)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1845200950
ISBN-13: 978-1845200954
Book Description
This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion--Western witches, druids, shamans--seek to relate spiritually with nature through "magical consciousness". 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 and story-telling, and the hi-tech discourse of postmodernity.
About the Author
Susan Greenwood is Lecturer in School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex.
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作者: Susan Greenwood (Author)
出版社: Berg Publishers (July 14, 2005)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1845200950
ISBN-13: 978-1845200954
Book Description
This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion--Western witches, druids, shamans--seek to relate spiritually with nature through "magical consciousness". 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 and story-telling, and the hi-tech discourse of postmodernity.
About the Author
Susan Greenwood is Lecturer in School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex.
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