Journal For the Academic Study of Magick 1 - Softcover

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A multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed print publication, covering all areas of magic, witchcraft, paganism etc; geographical regions and historical periods. Beyond Attribution: The Importance of Barrett's Magus/Alison Butler * Shadow over Philistia: A review of the Cult of Dagon/John C. Day * A History of Otherness:Tarot and Playing Cards from Early Modern Europe/Joyce Goggin * Opposites Attract: magical identity and social uncertainty/Dave Green * 'Memories of a sorcerer': notes on Gilles Deleuze-Felix Guattari, Austin Osman Spare and Anomalous Sorceries./Matt Lee * Le Streghe Son Tornate: The Reappearance of Streghe in Italian American Queer Writings/Ilaria Serra * Controlling Chance, Creating Chance: Magical Thinking in Religious Pilgrimage/Deana Weibel 'After being dunked in a cauldron of magic potion, the JASM now has classier paper, a larger format and bigger type and has grown to almost 400 pages. The 12 articles further the Journal's remit to present and promote new academic writing, thinking and research on all aspects of the subject, and demonstrate again just how broad this ever-expanding field is. One would have to have completed courses in ancient history, anthropology, religious studies, linguistics, philosophy, post-modernism, art, literature, folklore, the sciences and quite probably mathematics to properly assess the material here.

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