Religion and the decline of magic
by Keith Thomas
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Religion & the Decline of Magic is Keith Thomas's classic history of the magical beliefs held by people on every level of English society in the 16th and 17th centuries and how these beliefs were a part of the religious and scientific assumptions of the time. It is not only a major historical and religious work, but a thoroughly enjoyable book filled with fascinating facts and original insights into an area of human nature that remains controversial today- the belief in the supernatural that still continues in the modern world.
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Occultism, Popular culture, Religious life and customs, Religion, History, Magic, History, 17th Century, Magie, Occultisme, History, 16th Century, Volksgeloof, Religion and sociology, Great britain, religion, Occultism, history, Great britain, history, tudors, 1485-1603, Great britain, social life and customs, Great britain, history, stuarts, 1603-1714, History of Medicine, 16th Cent, History of Medicine, 17th CentPlaces
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Religion and the decline of magic: studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England
1997, Oxford University Press
in English
0195213602 9780195213607
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Religion and the decline of magic: studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England
1997, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
0297819720 9780297819721
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Religion and the decline of magic: studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England
1991, Penguin
in English
0140137440 9780140137446
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Religion and the decline of magic: studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England
1971, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
0297002201 9780297002208
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Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. Keith Thomas's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700, when science and rationalism began to challenge the older systems of belief.
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