Susan Greenwood

The Nature of Magic

An Anthropology of Consciousness

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witches, druids, shamans - seek to relate spiritually with nature through 'magical consciousness'. 'Magic' and 'consciousness' are concepts that are often fraught with prejudice and ambiguity respectively. 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, story-telling, and the hi-tech discourse of postmodernity, and asks important questions concerning nature religion's environmental credentials, such as whether it as inherently ecological as many of its practitioners claim.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781845200954
• ISBN-10: 1845200950
• Artikelnr.: 22304119

Autorenporträt

Susan Greenwood is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sussex.

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionNature Religion and Underlying Influences Reconnection with
Nature'Calling to be Remembered': the Past, Ancestors, and Tradition
Magical Consciousness The Wild Hunt: a Mythological Language of
MagicLearning to be IndigenousA Tangled Web: Paradoxical ElementsNature in
the City: Concluding Reflections